[ SECRET POST #6153 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6153 ⌋

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01. [SPOILERS for Slay the Princess]




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02. [SPOILERS for Pact]




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03. [SPOILERS for Final Fantasy 16]




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04. [SPOILERS for Our Flag Means Death]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of violence, transphobia, abuse, child abuse; Ezra Miller]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of RL war/genocide/etc]



























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch do have their biases, though.

Human Rights Watch has long faced criticism, including from its own founder, about its selective approach, e.g. its reluctance to call out human rights abuses in non-Western countries; and its credulousness when gathering accounts from witnesses on whichever side they support. They have a tendency not to fact-check eyewitness statements, and to not take opposing testimony into account.

When it comes to Israel, Amnesty classifies all Arabs living in the country as "Palestinian," regardless whether they actually are Palestinian or identify that way, and have used that classification to conflate all Israeli Arabs (and Palestinians who are Israeli citizens) with Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. The "apartheid" label relies on this, as it makes it look as if a 5th of the population is denied rights based on ethnicity or religion, when that isn't actually true. Does this mean that the treatment of people in the West Bank and Gaza is good, or justified? Absolutely not! But it does shift the issue from a matter of ethnicity/religion to a matter of location, as a Palestinian living in East Jerusalem enjoys rights that a Palestinian in Gaza does not. And when members of the group that are said to be denied rights are able to vote and sit in parliament, it complicates the picture.

[(Anonymous)]

The apartheid label does not rely on conflating all Arabs, regardless of citizenship. Apartheid refers to the implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights. Palestinians living in East Jersusalem do NOT enjoy the same rights as Israelis living in the same place. All Palestinians are second class at best, if citizens at all. Just because some of them have a right to vote doesn't mean they're not discriminated against - that they're not deprived of political and civil rights as a group.

There are over 65 laws in place that discriminate directly or indirectly against Palestinian citizens in Israel and Palestinian residents of the OPT. A 2010 report by the US State Department documented similar issues of “institutional, legal, and societal discrimination”.

Palestinian political figures frequently face efforts by Israeli authorities and Jewish parliamentarians to limit their political rights. These include motions to disqualify Arab parties from running in the election; criminal indictments by police against Arab politicians for participating in demonstrations; and a new law allowing 80 Knesset members (out of 120) to expel their colleagues from the parliament, among others.

That is the definition of apartheid.