A person's ethnicity should not determine their rights, but since Israeli authorities are committing the crime of apartheid, Palestinians everywhere face various forms of denial solely because they are not Jewish. Here's a Q&A from @hrw's latest report: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/qa-threshold-crossed
"Every day a person is born in Gaza into an open air prison, in the West Bank without civil rights, in Israel with an inferior status by law, and in neighboring countries effectively condemned to lifelong refugee status...solely because they are Palestinian and not Jewish." @hrw
"In international human rights law, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)...race and racial discrimination include distinctions made based on descent and national or ethnic origin." @hrw
"Apartheid is a crime against humanity, defined in the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court." @hrw
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