Israel: grant all Palestinians all human rights

August 19, 2025

Excellent analysis by Paul Heywood-Smith. However, crucial to any Palestine-Israel “settlement” is irrevocable application to all Palestinians of all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, notably (1) “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights…”, (2) “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind…”, and (3) “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”.

Pre-war, Indigenous Palestinians represented 50% of the subjects of Israel. However the Occupied Palestinians (5.6 million pre-war, with only 4.9 million now alive) are excluded from all these human rights. Unlike the sorely oppressed Occupied Palestinians, the 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians can vote for the government ruling them, albeit for vetted candidates, but are subject to 65 race-based discriminatory laws. Seven million exiled Palestinians cannot live in the country continuously inhabited by their forebears in an important 4000-year civilisation.

The Israel-Palestine “conflict” can be ended immediately by making Zionist Israel grant all Palestinians all their human rights under threat of draconian global sanctions like those that eventually freed South Africa from evil apartheid – but genocidally racist apartheid Israel simply won’t. Global inaction is complicity.