Report: Apartheid Implementation Agency Targeting Jews Instead Of Arabs

Jews are barred from expressions of religious devotion on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, while Muslims are free to behave there as they wish.

Jerusalem, September 21 – An investigative commission on the activities of the newly-established Apartheid Implementation Agency has determined that instead of maintaining a policy of political discrimination and denial of rights to Arab citizens, the AIA has implemented and enforced such policies against Jews.

Specifically, the report cites the practice of preventing Jews from expressions of religious devotion on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, while Muslims are free to behave there as they wish, including harassing Jews and fomenting violence against them. The report also discussed the default exemption from military or national service enjoyed by Israel’s Arab population, in contrast to the military draft system in place for the country’s Jews.

The AIA was founded to assume some of the functions of the now-defunct Ministry of Apartheid, which was disbanded last year after decades of failure to impose even the most rudimentary form of political exclusion against Arabs. Some residual staff and duties were absorbed by the Office of the Prime Minister, which set up the agency to assume many of those duties. However, an internal monitoring committee has found that the AIA has managed no improvement in implementing Apartheid in Israel, calling into question the benefits of having such an agency in the first place.

“This committee found that Israel continues to suffer all the drawbacks of having Apartheid and none of the benefits, the same situation as before the Ministry of Apartheid was closed,” the report authors write. “The accusation of Apartheid persists internationally and among some local political figures, bringing diplomatic harm and other detrimental results, while no advantage to the Jewish population actually occurs at the expense of Arab citizens. In fact this committee discovered multiple arenas in which, unconscionably, there appears to exist Apartheid against Jews, a phenomenon that contradicts the very essence of the agency. We wonder, therefore, what purpose the body serves, and whether any of the expenses associated with its existence can be justified.”

Moreover, the report notes, the very currency of the term “Arab citizens of Israel” showcases the failure of the agency and its predecessor to impose any semblance of Apartheid, which is supposed to imply the exclusion of Arabs from Israeli citizenship. “The AIA is young, and may yet be unable to fulfill its mission to any detectable degree at this stage, but we recommend that unless noticeable improvement in Apartheid implementation occurs within eighteen months, the agency be disbanded permanently.”

Agency officials were prohibited from commenting on the report, but former Minister of Apartheid Aflaya Gizani said the findings vindicated his performance before the ministry’s closure. “There are just some things that can’t be done under these circumstances. I was given an impossible job.”

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