Removing Borders, Erasing Palestinians: Israeli Population Maps after 1967
How Israeli population cartography incorporated Palestinians through the very act of erasing them.
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How Israeli population cartography incorporated Palestinians through the very act of erasing them.
The borders that intrude into the bedroom also split towns in half and sever them from their surrounding regions. The construction of the infamous Wall within the West Bank has created enclaves in Barta’a and western Bethlehem. Despite officially being part of the West Bank, these Palestinian towns are left on the Israeli side of the Wall, which functions as a de facto new border on the ground. The border has literally moved around them. It is as if Canada built a wall around northern Vermont and then told the residents that they were all now illegal squatters on Canadian soil.#history #cartography #maps
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Maps, Technology, & Decolonial Spatial Practices in Palestine - Al-Shabaka – 2020
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The practice of mapping in Palestine-Israel has long been an exercise in power, imperialism, and dispossession. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Zena Agha examines how Palestinians have been excluded from maps of their own land from the British Mandate to today, and explores ways that Palestinians can – and do – reclaim maps as a means of resistance. #maps
Al-Haq Releases New Report and film on Israel’s Water Apartheid – Al Haq - 2022
#Water #Palestine #Apartheid
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By virtue of their identity, Palestinians are subject to a discriminatory apartheid system denying access to their own water. Israel’s apartheid regime is founded upon discriminatory laws, policies and practices which enable the Israeli military authorities to hold complete control over all water resources and water-related infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). In Area C of the occupied West Bank, under full Israel military and civilian control, Israel controls and denies Palestinian access to water reservoirs and pumping sites, routinely destroys water wells, and imposes a discriminatory and arbitrary permit regime for the implementation of any water related project.#Water #Palestine #Apartheid
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Palestine and Israel: Mapping an annexation |
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Infographic News | Al Jazeera – 2020#maps #annexation #Naqba
Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is apartheid – UHCR - 25 March 2022
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Living in the same geographic space, but separated by walls, checkpoints, roads and an entrenched military presence, are more than three million Palestinians, who are without rights, living under an oppressive rule of institutional discrimination and without a path to a genuine Palestinian state that the world has long promised is their right.
“Another two million Palestinians live in Gaza, described regularly as an ‘open-air prison’, without adequate access to power, water or health, with a collapsing economy and with no ability to freely travel to the rest of Palestine or the outside world.”
The Special Rapporteur said that a political regime which so intentionally and clearly prioritizes fundamental political, legal and social rights to one group over another within the same geographic unit on the basis of one’s racial-national-ethnic identity satisfies the international legal definition of apartheid.#Apartheid
50 stories of Palestinian life under occupation - OCH/OPT
#Occupation #testimony #report
June 2017 marked 50 years since Israel began its military occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
At the 50 year mark OCHA compiled a broad spectrum of case studies featured in recent years. These stories exemplify the Palestinian experience of occupation and its humanitarian impacts.#Occupation #testimony #report
Israeli Apartheid Tool of Zionisst Settler Colonialism - Al Mezan - Dec 2022
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This report is published by Al-Haq and is endorsed by partner organisations from Palestinian civil society. The endorsing organisations (the ‘Coalition’) are: Al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer), Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Al Mezan), the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCPRJ), the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), Community Action Center—Al-Quds University (CAC), and the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy—MIFTAH.#Reports #AlMezan
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Israeli Apartheid Tool of Zionisst Settler Colonialism - Al Mezan - Dec 2022
#Reports #AlMezan #Addameer
This report is published by Al-Haq and is endorsed by partner organisations from Palestinian civil society. The endorsing organisations (the ‘Coalition’) are: Al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer), Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Al Mezan), the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCPRJ), the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), Community Action Center—Al-Quds University (CAC), and the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy—MIFTAH.
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Lists of Palestinian Programs & Organizations - Palestine Portal
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Many organizations and programs in Israel/Palestine; much of this list is derived from information from PASSIA: www.passia.org#List #Organization
Boycott AnyVision: Israel’s “field-tested” facial recognition surveillance company | BDS Movement – 2019
#AnyVision #Microsoft #FacialRecognition #France #Nice #UK #Spain #Palestine #Apartheid #Technology
Human Rights Watch has called on Microsoft to review its investments in AnyVision given the “human rights risk associated with the investment in a company that’s providing [facial recognition] technology to an occupying power.” AnyVision violates Microsoft’s own principles on facial recognition because they provide technology used for unlawful surveillance.
HPE, which supplies servers to Israel’s population control registry, a pillar of its apartheid system, uses AnyVision facial recognition technology in its servers.
Spanish telecommunications transnational Telefónica and G4S also use AnyVision’s technology. The city of, France, surveils citizens with AnyVision and entry to the London stadium was surveilled by AnyVision last summer.#AnyVision #Microsoft #FacialRecognition #France #Nice #UK #Spain #Palestine #Apartheid #Technology
Palestinians Renew Call to Boycott Israeli Facial Recognition Company AnyVision | BDS Movement – 2020
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Palestinian civil society supports calls for an ultimate ban on facial recognition technology and reiterates call for local authorities, corporations, universities to immediately end all ties with Israeli company AnyVision over its involvement in crimes against Palestinians.AnyVision also maintains surveillance cameras for the Israeli military deep inside the occupied West Bank. AnyVision’s technology is used to spy on Palestinians and enables the Israeli military’s illegal targeting of Palestinian civilians. AnyVision, which is led by veteran Israeli military and intelligence personnel, is able to market its technology as “field-tested” on Palestinians.#AnyVision #Apartheid #Palestine #FacialRecognition
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Biometrics and counter-terrorism: Case study of Israel/Palestine | Privacy International - 2021
#Biometrics #FacialRecognition #Palestine #Apartheid #Report
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A case study illustrating the use and looming dangers of collection and use of biometrics in the name of counter-terrorism.
In Israel/Palestine, the Israeli government has been deploying biometrics, including cutting-edge facial recognition technology, in the name of counter-terrorism. The Israeli state routinely surveils and severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement using myriad technologies, including biometrics, which result in furthering the policies of systemic segregation. Since many Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, they have little control over the way their sensitive data is turned against them.
This report was compiled by Keren Weitzberg, a tech and migration researcher, in collaboration with Privacy International.#Biometrics #FacialRecognition #Palestine #Apartheid #Report
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