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Muriel Asseburg

Muriel Asseburg

Dr Muriel Asseburg is a senior fellow in the Africa and Middle East Research Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs. This contribution was first published as “Amnesty International and the Apartheid Claim Against Israel. Political and Legal Relevance,” SWP, 1.3.2022, available at: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/amnesty-international-and-the-apartheid-claim-againstisrael.

Articles

Amnesty International’s Apartheid Report
While there are reasons to view Amnesty’s report critically, it is a serious wake-up call to no longer accept grave human rights violations as normal and to not regard the ongoing occupation as a state of affairs that exists detached from a “democratic Israel.”
Putting the Controversy About BDS in Germany into Perspective
The attitude towards the BDS movement should not be guided by a “rhetoric of suspicion”, and there needs to be space for a constructive debate which takes into account the right of self-determination of both the Israeli and the Palestinian people
The EU and Jerusalem: Countering Policies That Will Prevent Peace
Europe must take a stronger stance against the occupation of and settlement-building in Jerusalem.