Evo's Bolivia Slams Israel's Trump-Style ‘Apartheid Wall’

Bolivia’s government called for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestine Tuesday, bringing attention to the settler state’s “apartheid wall” along the occupied West Bank.

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“We call for the recognition of the full, sovereign, free and independent form of the Palestinian State,” Bolivian Plurinational Legislative Assembly representative Romina Perez Ramos said at the International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada held in Tehran.

The conference, organized by Iran’s Islamic Revolution, brought together over 700 representatives from 80 countries to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, the Tehran Times reported.

Ramos compared the expansion of Israel’s wall to the one U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to construct along the Mexican border, calling both “samples of imperialism," according to HispanTV.

“We already know that the International Court of Justice, ICJ, has already ruled on the legal consequences of this wall of shame in Palestine,” Ramos said, citing the court’s 2004 decision against the wall. The ICJ ruled that year that Israel's construction of the “apartheid wall” was illegal and ordered that construction stop immediately.

Israel, however, has ignored the ruling and has since announced plans to continue building settlements in the occupied West Bank. Last month, the settler state announced plans for 3,000 more settlement homes.

This isn’t the first time Bolivia’s socialist government has stood up against Israel in solidarity with Palestine. The ruling Movement for Socialism party has a long history of supporting Palestine’s struggle for liberation.

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Last year, Bolivian President Evo Morales condemned Israel’s policies during his address at the United Nations General Assembly, calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine.

“Israel's warmongering policies are probably one of the most barbaric examples in the world,” Morales said, condemning recent Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians.

“We have to stop the genocide against the Palestinians,” he added.

In 2014, Morales broke diplomatic relations with Israel, calling it a “terrorist state.” He also canceled a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest of its military attacks on Gaza.

Since taking office in 2006, the MAS administration has accepted hundreds of Palestinian refugees escaping violence in the West Bank and Gaza.