State Sponsored Racism in Israel

CAN'T STOP. WON'T STOP.

I've decided to continue this blog, but on a much more erratic basis.  I'll update it when I feel like it.

 





On Wednesday, 19 February 2020, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort, two bulldozers and a crane truck to a school in Khirbet Susiya in the South Hebron Hills. The forces confiscated a caravan usually used by the school’s fourth grade, which has five students. Forty-seven of the community’s children attend grades one to nine at the school. The school has been under renovation for the past two weeks, and the caravan was removed from the area temporarily by the residents and used for storage. Border police officers violently pushed and arrested a resident who protested the confiscation. He was released the next day, after depositing bail

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On 21 Feb. 2020, during the weekly protest against the closure of the
eastern entrance to the village of Qadum following the expansion of the
settlement of Kedumim, an army bulldozer pushed boulders, placed on the
road to obstruct soldiers, towards residents at high speed. The boulders
hit a journalist and 10-year-old boy and damaged an ambulance and
private car. The military’s well-documented, violent oppression of these
demonstrations forms an illegal formal policy of deterring the
residents’ legitimate protest against violation of their rights