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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">90 NGOs call UN to recognise, address zionist settler colonialism and apartheid as root causes of Israel’s ongoing violations</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">QudsN - June 28, 2022<br></div>
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<p>Occupied Palestine (QNN)- 90 Palestinian and international
organisations sent a joint submission to the United Nations Independent
International Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (CoI) “examining
Zionist settler colonialism and apartheid as the root causes of Israel’s
ongoing violations of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian
people.”</p>
<p>On 31 May 2022, <a href="https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/20219.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Al-Haq and 90 Palestinian and international NGOs</a>
sent a joint submission to the Un’s Independent International
Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (CoI) in response to the unique
mandate entrusted with the ongoing CoI established in May 2021.</p>
<p>The CoI is the first investigating UN body to examine the underlying
root causes of systematic discrimination and repression in the entirety
of colonised Palestine; allowing for the acknowledgment that Israeli
violations in Palestine are rooted in a historical and an ongoing
settler colonial project, and for the consideration of the Palestinian
people and territory as a self-determination unit, instead of a
fragmented people and territory.</p>
<p>The submitting organisations acknowledge that the CoI’s unique
mandate, is mainly attributed to the Palestinian people on the ground,
who, in May 2021 mobilized in a collective struggle of popular
resistance, which “challenges 73 years of fragmentation, imposed by
Israeli settler colonisation and apartheid in what is known as the Unity
Intifada/Uprising.”</p>
<p>Before delving into the Zionist settler colonial and apartheid regime
as the root causes of Israel’s ongoing violation, the submission
explains the necessity behind this framing, instead of the hegemonic
narrative around Palestine, that still portrays the situation as the
“Israeli-Palestinian conflict” which is centred ‘only’ on Israel’s
occupation since 1967.</p>
<p>Adopting the settler colonialism and apartheid framework allows for
consideration of the plight of the Palestinian people in its entirety.</p>
<p>This shifts the discourse from a focus on so-called political
solutions to a struggle for self-determination, aimed at dismantling
Israel’s regime of settler colonialism, rather than seeking “reforms” to
living conditions under the reign of Zionism, or “liberal equality”.</p>
<p>The joint submission then delves into the history of the Zionist
settler colonial movement, in order to understand the Israeli settler
state as a product of this movement.</p>
<p>The submission addresses the Zionist movement’s emergence by the end
of the 19th century, and how the Movement adopted the combined
ideologies of racialist self-identification of persons of Jewish faith
and settler colonialism, which involves the elimination of the
indigenous people and the annexation of their lands to the benefit of
the newly constructed colonising racial group.</p>
<p>The organisations outline how the Zionist movement used a proto-state
apparatus, and colluded with imperial powers “to create for the Jewish
people a home in Palestine secured by public law.”</p>
<p>The submission outlines Britain’s illegal role in facilitating
Zionist colonisation in Palestine, in violation of the Legal of Nations
Covenant, which provides for the provisional recognition of the
Palestinian people independence, and their right to self-determination,
and in violation of the Mandatory Power’s obligation to administer the
territory in the interest of the indigenous Palestinian people.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the submission examines the planning for the transfer
and replacement of the Palestinian people before the Nakba by the
Zionist settler colonial movement, by examining ‘Plan Dalet’ and its
implementation which led to the destruction of at least 531 Palestinian
villages and the expulsion of their indigenous population, which
rendered 80 percent of the Palestinian people refugees and internally
displaced within their own country.[1] As such, the establishment of the
State of Israel on 77 percent of Palestine was the culmination of the
Zionist settler colonial movement but not its end.</p>
<p>The Israeli settler colonial state adopted the Zionist ideology of
transferring and replacing the indigenous Palestinian people, and
established an institutionalized a regime of Jewish racial domination
and oppression over the Palestinian people, amounting to the crime of
apartheid.</p>
<p>The submission then delves into Israel’s apartheid regime, by
examining the series of laws and policies Israel has developed since its
establishment, particularly in the domains of land, planning and
zoning, nationality, residency, and immigration, clearly dividing
between the indigenous Palestinian people and Jewish Israelis, in order
to legalize and legitimize crimes committed before the Nakba, and ensure
the continuation of displacement and dispossession.</p>
<p>The submission explains how these apartheid policies and plans
continue after the belligerent occupation, to maintain the domination
and Palestinian subjugation on both sides of the “Green Line.”</p>
<p>The submission then examines Israel’s strategic fragmentation of the
Palestinian people as a tool to consolidate its apartheid regime,
through the denial of Palestinian refugee their right to return, the
imposition of freedom of movement, residency, and access restrictions,
and the denial of family life. The submission explores Israel’s
intention to maintain its apartheid regime by suppressing Palestinian
resistance through its military rule, wilful killing, suppression of
demonstrations, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment,
and collective punishment, as well as smear campaigns against groups,
and human rights defenders, seeking to challenge its apartheid regime.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the organisations address Israel’s impunity and the
role of the international community in enabling the colonisation of
Palestine. The organisations commend the CoI as a promising opportunity
toward the acknowledgement of the situation in colonised Palestine as is
and to work toward decolonisation, genuine justice and reparations for
the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>Among the endorsing organisations are Addameer Prisoner Support and
Human Rights Association, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Al-Awda, the
Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Canadians for Justice and Peace in
the Middle East (CJPME), and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity
Network.</p>
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