Amnesty International has applauded the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing for recognising that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” against Palestinians in a damning report released on Friday. Special Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal presented an “Adequate Housing” report to the UN General Assembly which condemned Israel for overseeing an “institutionalised regime of systematic racial oppression and discrimination against the people of Palestine”. The report, which compared the forcible transfer of Palestinians to the Syrian regime’s destruction of civilian homes…