Israel Accused of Racism

Many scholars have said basically the same thing that this panel in Geneva is investigating, that some or a large part of Israel's practices amount to racism, with some going as far as to accuse them of ethnic cleansing (the latter is too big a jump for me to make based on the way the U.S., Britain, and others carved up the Middle East to place Israel there in 1948):

Members of a U.N. anti-discrimination panel criticized Israel on Thursday for killing civilians in Lebanon, accusing the Jewish state of violating international humanitarian law and racially targeting Arabs.

Israel rejected the allegations from the independent experts on the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for lacking objectivity by failing to address Hezbollah’s behavior.

The sole American on the panel, Ralph Boyd, Jr., said the committee also needed to address the actions of other parties playing a role in the conflict — a clear reference to Hezbollah, Iran and Syria.