LIMERICK Sinn Féin Senator Paul Gavan has called on the Parliamentary Council of Europe to recognise that Israel is an Apartheid state.
Speaking during the Human Rights Assembly, Senator Gavan said, “Israel operates a separate two-tier legal and political system in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs.
“700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem enjoy rights of Israeli citizenship – the right to vote, a European standard of living, Israeli Courts, Jewish only settlements.
“In contrast, three million stateless and rightless Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem live under military occupation, with separate roads, military zones, and the steady confiscation of Palestinian land for settlements,” Senator Gavan added.
