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Rabbis for Human Rights protests Israel’s collective punishment

By Ray Hanania

Rabbis for Human Rights, the only rabbinical based human rights organization in Israel, issued a statement this week calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the practice of punishing families and relatives of individuals accused of violent crimes by destroying their homes.

Israel has destroyed thousands of homes of Palestinians who have been accused of violent acts including allegations of terrorism, but in many cases, the suspects are never tried in courts and are often denied their legal rights.

Israel has not only often killed the suspects, but they have also punished relatives and neighbors of the suspects using an practice called “collective punishment” which is defined as a war crime and has been used in past conflicts including by the Nazis during World War II and by other totalitarian regimes in Europe.

Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli organization that supports Human Rights and opposes civil rights abuses and violations. Photo Courtesy of Rabbis for Human Rights
Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli organization that supports Human Rights and opposes civil rights abuses and violations. Photo Courtesy of Rabbis for Human Rights

Ironically, Israel has accused Arab leaders who have helped the families of accused violent and terrorism suspects by giving them financial assistance. Most notorious were the donations of $10,000 or more that were given by the late dictator Saddam Hussein to the families of suspects arrested or murdered by Israel.

Israel denounced the practice saying that it supported terrorism, yet Collective Punishment is the exact same practice or rewarding and punishing innocent people who are not involved in violent acts. In the case of Collective Punishment, the destruction of homes and lands belonging to relatives and family and friends of individuals accused of violence and terrorism benefits the terrorist Israeli settler movement which seeks with the help of Israel’s rightwing government to push Arab Christians and Muslims out of occupied Palestine.

The issue is a core principle of true civil rights and human rights and Rabbis for Human Rights should be applauded for standing up for the rights of innocent people who are punished purely for political reasons. The practice of hurting or helping families of individuals engaged in violence, convicted in a court of law or not, should end.

Rabbis for Human Rights noted that the true reason for the home demolitions is purely one of seeking to confiscate land from non-Jews in occupied Palestine, acknowledging a key argument from Palestinians that rightwing Israeli governments have used violence and terrorism as an excuse to expel non-Jewish populations and to strengthen the illegal activities of the Israeli settler movement which openly engages in armed acts of violence of terrorism against Arab Christians and Arab Muslims.

The letter is important because it separates the extremists in Israel from the core principles of Judaism upheld by Rabbis for Human Rights and may help Jewish people who have turned their back on human rights in the conflict between Israel and Palestine to reassess their views and instead reject their government’s extremism.

No individual, Jewish, Muslim or Christians, should be punished for the actions of others, regardless of their family relations or friendships. It’s a fundamental principle of Human Rights. To punish someone simply because they know someone or are of the same religion, race and ethnicity violates international principles of law, human rights and morality.

Here is the letter sent by Rabbis for Human Rights which seeks to uphold human rights principles in Israel and in Palestine.

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,

In 2005, over four hundred rabbis wrote an open letter to then Prime Minister Sharon expressing concern about the administrative demolition of Palestinian homes. We are extremely disapointed that the Government of Israel is opposing a High Court petition offering a constructive solution for alleviating this issue. Please use your authority to end this opposition.

Part of the 2005 letter read:

“The homes that were demolished were not demolished for any security reason. None of the people in these homes engaged in violence or harboring terrorists. They were demolished because of a violation of zoning regulations in a context where it is almost impossible for Palestinian families in those parts of the West Bank under Israeli civilian control or in Jerusalem to legally obtain building permits… “

The context referred to was the fact that planning and zoning laws severely restrict the ability of Palestinians to build homes, even on the lands that the State recognizes as belonging to them. There has been no representation or true ability for Palestinians to determine how to properly plan for their communities since local and district planning committees were abolished in 1971. The army plans for them.

Back in the 19th century, Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch warned in his Torah commentary about the disastrous consequences when, even with the best of intentions, those with the power in their hands try to appropriate for themselves the task of determining how to be just to others. The current discriminatory planning process exemplifies this, and violates the Jewish prohibition against acting “איפה ואיפה.”

Civil Administration (Army) planning officials have acknowledged that they don’t really have the ability to adequately plan for Palestinian communities. Currently, the failure of the existing system is clear. Thousands have been forced to build without permits, and great human suffering is caused when hundreds of homes are demolished each year in Area C alone.

We are therefore disappointed that the Government of Israel has decided to oppose the High Court petition submitted by Rabbis For Human Rights and partner organizations to restore local planning committees. In the hearing on the petition on April 28th of this year, the judges said clearly that the current situation is unacceptable, and gave the State ninety days to come up with a proposal to truly involve Palestinians in planning their communities. While the judges indicated that they would not force the State to restore the local and district planning committees cancelled by military order in 1971, they indicated that there was no legal reason for the State not to do so.

However, the State’s response was a proposal to institutionalize consultations that are already taking place in many cases. These consultations have not significantly altered the situation because the Civil Administration has no obligation to take into account what they hear. We also saw in the spring that consultations were suspended in response to moves by the Palestinian Authority.

Human rights must not be politicized. The State of Israel has an obligation to ensure that every human being under her control, each created in God’s Image, has a fair chance to build a home for him/herself and his/her family, irrespective of the current state of the peace process or differing opinions about what areas will be under Israel’s control in a future final status agreement. We urge the State of Israel to withdraw its opposition to RHR’s petition.

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Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).

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