Palestinian Foreign Ministry:
Israel Moving From Apartheid to Fascist Regime
RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Saturday accused the Zionist regime of anchoring apartheid through legislations that terrorize critics.
The ministry said in a statement that an Israeli draft law that would impose stiff prison term on activists in the anti-Zionist boycott movement seeks to terrorize the regime’s critics.
An Israeli ministerial committee for legislation is going to discuss on Sunday a bill proposed by Likud members calling for imposing between seven and 10-year prison sentence on anyone that is active in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and calls for boycotting the Zionist regime culturally and economically.
"The occupying power (the Zionist regime) is quickly moving from an apartheid state to a fascist state," said the Foreign Ministry statement, adding that the regime is seeking to terrorize critics through legislating laws that clearly violate international law.
The statement condemned what it described as "discriminatory" laws, particularly the recently passed so-called "nation-state law”, accusing the regime of "violating the principles of human rights."
The ministry urged "specialized regional and international organizations to raise its voice to expose the flagrant violations of human rights principles, top most being the freedom of expression."
In a latest development, a U.S. student’s court victory against the Zionist regime’s attempt to bar her from the country may prove only a short reprieve in the "battle” over a law targeting some pro-Palestinian activists, one of her lawyers said on Friday.
Lara Alqasem, 22, was allowed out of Tel Aviv airport on Thursday after the Zionist regime’s supreme court overturned her Oct. 2 detention there on suspicion of being active in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The case has touched off a debate in the occupied territories over the 2017 law that bars the entry of foreigners who publicly support boycotts of the regime over its policies toward the Palestinians. The Zionist regime’s cabinet slammed the court ruling as short-sighted.
But a lawyer for Alqasem, who is of Palestinian descent and a former president of a small local chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine group at the University of Florida, hailed the ruling as "an incredible day for Israeli democracy”.
A Zionist trooper fires a rubber bullet toward Palestinian protesters during clashes in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, February 10, 2017.
The ministry said in a statement that an Israeli draft law that would impose stiff prison term on activists in the anti-Zionist boycott movement seeks to terrorize the regime’s critics.
An Israeli ministerial committee for legislation is going to discuss on Sunday a bill proposed by Likud members calling for imposing between seven and 10-year prison sentence on anyone that is active in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and calls for boycotting the Zionist regime culturally and economically.
"The occupying power (the Zionist regime) is quickly moving from an apartheid state to a fascist state," said the Foreign Ministry statement, adding that the regime is seeking to terrorize critics through legislating laws that clearly violate international law.
The statement condemned what it described as "discriminatory" laws, particularly the recently passed so-called "nation-state law”, accusing the regime of "violating the principles of human rights."
The ministry urged "specialized regional and international organizations to raise its voice to expose the flagrant violations of human rights principles, top most being the freedom of expression."
In a latest development, a U.S. student’s court victory against the Zionist regime’s attempt to bar her from the country may prove only a short reprieve in the "battle” over a law targeting some pro-Palestinian activists, one of her lawyers said on Friday.
Lara Alqasem, 22, was allowed out of Tel Aviv airport on Thursday after the Zionist regime’s supreme court overturned her Oct. 2 detention there on suspicion of being active in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The case has touched off a debate in the occupied territories over the 2017 law that bars the entry of foreigners who publicly support boycotts of the regime over its policies toward the Palestinians. The Zionist regime’s cabinet slammed the court ruling as short-sighted.
But a lawyer for Alqasem, who is of Palestinian descent and a former president of a small local chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine group at the University of Florida, hailed the ruling as "an incredible day for Israeli democracy”.
A Zionist trooper fires a rubber bullet toward Palestinian protesters during clashes in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, February 10, 2017.