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2. Human Rights in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Richard Kuper (author)
Chapter of: For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group(pp. 21–40)
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| Title | 2. Human Rights in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Richard Kuper (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0345.03 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0345/chapters/10.11647/obp.0345.03 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Richard Kuper |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2023-06-26 |
| Long abstract | The events in Gaza and on the West Bank, terrible as they are, are not the only – or even the most terrible – infringement of human rights to be found on the planet. One only has to think of the genocide in Darfur – or the torture camp at Guantanamo. It is necessary and desirable to ‘single out Israel’ but in doing so I have chosen to focus on universalist human-rights themes. We can – and must – debate the origins of these human-rights’ violations: the extent to which they are simply the kind of thing that happens in all prolonged occupations, the extent to which they arise from Israel’s demographic obsession with having a Jewish state and the racist fear this generates about Palestinian population growth as a ‘ticking bomb’; the old Zionist dream of a greater Israel, wanting Judea and Samaria but not wanting the Palestinians and so on. In this talk I have merely wanted to focus on what Israel is currently doing and, by implication, the need to mobilise opposition to it. |
| Page range | pp. 21–40 |
| Print length | 20 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 1 illustration |
Contributors
Richard Kuper
(author)Richard Kuper, who gave the second Hurndall Memorial Lecture in 2006, was a founder member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in February 2002. At the time of preparing this lecture for publication, he is web editor of Jewish Voice for Labour.