Hundreds of prominent Israeli and US public figures have signed an open letter criticising US Jewish leaders for failing to speak out on ‘the ultimate purpose’ of the Israeli government’s recent judicial changes, which stop the Israeli supreme court being able to overrule government decisions.
The real purpose of the changes is to ‘annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population,’ according to the statement – which also says that Palestinians live under ‘a regime of apartheid’.
- The British government lobbied the World Court not to issue an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the ‘occupation, settlement and annexation’ of Palestinian land, says the Guardian.
Topics: Israel-Palestine