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Amnesty steps up its campaign on Israel

May 21, 2010 13:40

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

Amnesty International's UK branch is continuing to highlight Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with an exhibition in London next month directed against its security barrier.

The event follows a meeting last week hosted by Amnesty International UK entitled "Capital Murder: Inside the Israeli authorities' regime of discrimination and control in Occupied East Jerusalem".

Journalist Ben White, author of Israeli Apartheid: A Beginners Guide, described what was happening as "a microcosm of Israeli apartheid".

Mr White told the audience of 70 that a "shocking finding" of a United Nations study last year was that 87 per cent of east Jerusalem was unavailable for Palestinian construction.

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