[[{"content_id":351131,"content_number":0,"portal_id":2,"lang_id":"en","content_title":"Zionist regime to ban human rights groups from school visits","content_rtitr":"","content_short_title":null,"content_summary":"Israel's education minister is banning groups that call Israel as an \"apartheid state\" from making schools visits to present information to students, CBS News has reported.","content_summary_fill":1,"content_body":"Yoav Galant tweeted that he had instructed the ministry's director general to "prevent the entry of organisations calling Zionist regime 'an apartheid state' or demeaning Zionist troops from lecturing at schools.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe move follows publication of a report last week by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. The organisation branded Zionist regime an "apartheid" state that "promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River."\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEchoing the UN's 2017 report which concluded that Israel was practising apartheid, B'Tselem dismissed the popular misconception that it is a democracy within the Green (1949 Armistice) Line. It argued that after more than half a century of occupation, the state should be treated as a single entity guided by the core racist organising principle of "advancing and perpetuating the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians."\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nB'Tselem said that it will not be deterred by the minister's announcement. Director-General Hagai El-Ad spoke at a school in Haifa earlier today.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEstablished in 1989 during the first intifada, B'Tselem documents human rights abuses in the occupied West Bank, East Al-Quds and Gaza Strip. "B'Tselem is determined to keep with its mission of documenting reality, analysing it, and making our findings known to the Israeli public and worldwide," it insisted.","content_html":"

Yoav Galant tweeted that he had instructed the ministry's director general to "prevent the entry of organisations calling Zionist regime 'an apartheid state' or demeaning Zionist troops from lecturing at schools.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The move follows publication of a report last week by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. The organisation branded Zionist regime an "apartheid" state that "promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River."<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Echoing the UN's 2017 report which concluded that Israel was practising apartheid, B'Tselem dismissed the popular misconception that it is a democracy within the Green (1949 Armistice) Line. It argued that after more than half a century of occupation, the state should be treated as a single entity guided by the core racist organising principle of "advancing and perpetuating the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians."<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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B'Tselem said that it will not be deterred by the minister's announcement. Director-General Hagai El-Ad spoke at a school in Haifa earlier today.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Established in 1989 during the first intifada, B'Tselem documents human rights abuses in the occupied West Bank, East Al-Quds and Gaza Strip. "B'Tselem is determined to keep with its mission of documenting reality, analysing it, and making our findings known to the Israeli public and worldwide," it insisted.<\/span><\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_date_start":"2021-01-19 09:57:30","content_date_event":"2021-01-19 09:57:30","content_date_event_start":null,"content_date_event_end":null,"content_show_title_slider":1,"content_date_last_edit":"2021-01-19 10:33:02","content_date_register":"2021-01-19 09:58:34","content_columns":0,"content_show_img":1,"content_show_details":0,"content_show_related_img":0,"content_show_slider":1,"content_comment":1,"content_score":0,"tag_id":0,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"uid":43,"eid":43,"attach_title":"Israel's education minister is banning groups that call Israel as an \"apartheid state\" from making schools visits to present information to students, CBS News has reported.","attaches":[{"sizes":{"150":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118_150_100.webp","300":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118_300_200.webp","400":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118_400_267.webp","600":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118_600_400.webp","900":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118_900_600.webp","1200":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118_1200_800.jpg"},"ext":"jpg","file_media":1,"token":2840829118,"files":{"original":{"url":".\/file\/2\/attach\/202101\/484269_2840829118.jpg","width":1200,"height":800,"size":0}}}]}]]