Geneva, June 19 (RHC)-- A group of 50 human rights experts at the United Nations have condemned Israel’s plan to annex 30% of the occupied West Bank, describing it as a “vision of a 21st-century apartheid.” 

This comes just days after a group of more than 400 Jewish and Israel studies academics denounced the annexation.  In a letter, the academics write: “Under these conditions, annexation of Palestinian territories will cement into place an anti-democratic system of separate and unequal law and systemic discrimination against the Palestinian population.”

In other news, in Britain, the governors of Oxford University have voted to remove a statue of the Victorian-era colonizer Cecil Rhodes, who helped pave the way for South Africa’s apartheid system.