human rights

A former Mossad chief says Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank

HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank, joining a tiny but growing list of retired officials to endorse an idea that remains largely on the fringes of Israeli discourse and international diplomacy.

Tamir Pardo becomes the latest former senior official to have concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, a reference to the system of racial separation in South Africa that ended in 1994.

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They never came for me, because I was not a real journalist

A message from history to my fellow journalists on the British state’s persecution of Asa Winstanley

JONATHAN COOK

First they came for Julian Assange
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Julian Assange
Then they came for the Palestinian journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Palestinian journalist
Then they came for the independent journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an independent journalist
Then they came for the investigative journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an investigative journalist
They never came for me
And I never spoke out
Because I was not a real journalist