“The real significance of the JNF’s latest decision is that it strips away the pretense that the Fund makes a distinction between land in Israel and the occupied territories.  It underlines the argument made in a report in January by Israel’s most prominent human rights group, B’Tselem, that Israel operates a single apartheid system inside Israel and the...Read More

“Recently, one of Israel’s most respected human rights NGOs joined a multitude of civil society organizations, including a plethora of Palestinian organizations and scholars, in naming this reality as a system of apartheid. They rightly said that systematic racial discrimination acts as an organizing principle upholding the supremacy of one group, Jews, over another, Palestinians. While a...Read More

“The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the depth of the Israeli apartheid regime.” However, Palestinians have long lived under the apartheid regime.  Some of the daily ‘inhuman acts’ that Palestinians are subjected to are demonstrated through the recent incident with the five Palestinian children.   Palestinian children between the ages of 8 and 13 were detained by the...Read More

“Instead of clinging to the aspiration for a Jewish majority, one should adhere to the principle of equality for all.”  This was the message of the DAAM party in Jerusalem, which stressed that if the will and courage existed, the city can be transformed from one that symbolizes apartheid into a gateway of hope for...Read More

This article reviews the history of the establishment of the Israeli apartheid regime and its recognition as an apartheid regime.  It re-iterates that Israeli practices are not only reminiscent of, but also in some cases, worse than the apartheid regime in South Africa. It also calls on the international community to intensify its solidarity with...Read More

A Threshold Crossed provides irrefutable evidence that the three primary elements of an apartheid crime already exist in Israel’s rule over the Palestinians: intent to maintain the dominance of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians; systematic oppression and institutional discrimination to implement the goal of domination; and the carrying out of a range of inhumane acts against...Read More

“…it is becoming increasingly difficult to criticize Israel without being branded an anti-Semite. You are an anti-Semite if you support the International Criminal Court’s recent ruling that it has jurisdiction to open a war crimes investigation against Israel. But you are also likely to be called an anti-Semite if you reject the logic informing the...Read More

Israel continues to inflict serious bodily and mental harm on Palestinians by infringing their under 13’s kids freedoms and arresting them for picking wild flowers (akoub).  A clear inhuman act of apartheid that resulted in five children arbitrarily arrested.  “The kids were caught off guard and had no idea what was happening to them and...Read More

Israeli State authorities continue to encourage the displacement of Palestinians to be replaced with Jewish Israeli settlers by expropriating their land through establishing new outposts on Palestinian farmlands and expanding existing settlements.  Israeli official and unofficial channels offer benefits and incentives to settlers and settlements that move to the West Bank – a clear act...Read More

“Titled, ‘Judge, Jury, and Occupier’, the London-based anti-poverty charity exposes how Israel’s military court system upholds its illegal occupation in the West Bank by enforcing repressive laws on the Palestinian population; suppressing dissent, quashing resistance to occupation, and deepening its military rule.” Read the full article from its original source >Read More