Palestinians file complaint at UN accusing Israel of racism
Palestinians diplomats have accused Israel of breaching an anti-racism treaty with policies that are “displacing and replacing the Palestinian people”, according to a 350-page complaint presented to the UN on Monday.
The document, which Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian envoy to the UN in Geneva, handed over to a UN committee on discrimination, accuses Israel of bias against Palestinians through a two-tiered legal system and violating rights to freedom of movement, religion, access to resources and housing.
“The system of racism and discrimination by the Israelis must not be recognised as a legal system,” Khraishi told Middle East Eye on Monday.
He said it was an unprecedented step to make an inter-state claim, but that it was legitimate since both Israel and Palestine are signatories to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Palestinians diplomats have accused Israel of breaching an anti-racism treaty with policies that are “displacing and replacing the Palestinian people”, according to a 350-page complaint presented to the UN on Monday. The document, which Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian envoy to the UN in Geneva, handed over to a UN committee on discrimination, accuses Israel of bias against Palestinians through a two-tiered legal system and violating rights to freedom of movement, religion, access to resources and housing. “The system of racism and discrimination by the Israelis must not be recognised as a legal system,” Khraishi told Middle East Eye on Monday. He said it was an unprecedented step to make an inter-state claim, but that it was legitimate since both Israel and Palestine are signatories to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. He said it was an unprecedented step to make an inter-state claim, but that it was legitimate since both Israel and Palestine are signatories to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.