Over 200 academics and experts have introduced a new anti-Semitism definition known as the “Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism” (JDA) which allows the criticism of Israel.  Unlike the contested IHRA definition which institutionalises the persecution of organisations or persons that oppose apartheid or criticise the apartheid regime, the new definition preserves, to a large extent, the...Read More

Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are deprived of identity documents, depriving them further from the right to movement and hence deteriorating their living conditions.  It is an imposition on Palestinians of living circumstances calculated to cause their psychological or physical deterioration or destruction. Zahra Abu Alwan, 75, left the Gaza Strip with...Read More

A group of over 200 academics and experts have introduced a new anti-Semitism definition known as the “Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism” which allows the criticism of Israel.  The international scholars working in anti-Semitism studies and related fields, including Jewish, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine and Middle East Studies attested that the text issued by them benefited from...Read More

Is it ‘Jewish democracy’ or is it apartheid when half the population is effectively disenfranchised from deciding the government? The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem stated that Israel maintains an “apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy” over all peoples between the river and the sea. Mainstream writers like Peter Beinart called for the establishment of one real...Read More

Over 200 academics and experts have introduced a new anti-Semitism definition known as the “Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism” (JDA) which allows the criticism of Israel.  Unlike the contested IHRA definition which institutionalises the persecution of organisations or persons that oppose apartheid or criticise the apartheid regime, the new definition preserves, to a large extent, the...Read More

“As leading figures of the Palestine movement have pointed out, this conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism is a blatant attempt to intimidate, persecute, and ultimately silence the Palestinian rights movement in the United States and around the world. It is built on the false assumption that Zionism is synonymous with Judaism, and that Israel’s seventy-three-year occupation of Palestine is...Read More

South Africa is working to fulfill its Read More

The vaccination process is another example of how Israel continues to privilege the Jewish people over the Palestinian people in the same territory of the West Bank. As a start, Palestinians living under Israeli military rule, are the legal responsibility of the Israeli authorities under the Geneva convention.  In addition, the decisions of Palestinians and specifically the movement...Read More

“The United Nations should take action against Israel’s discriminatory policies and compel it to respect relevant international laws on equality and non-discrimination… since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, successive Israeli governments have unfortunately, chosen the wrong side of history, where they enacted numerous exclusivist policies that discriminate against the Palestinian Arab...Read More

“A one-state already exists, Halper argues. The question is how to transform a settler-colonial, apartheid state into a secular democratic state for all its citizens. … Implementing the single democratic state, of course, will require reckoning by both Israelis and Palestinians, yet it is the former that needs to contend with the legacy of violence...Read More