Category: Apartheid Library
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Gaza: Apparent War Crimes During May Fighting
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on alleged Israeli war crimes during the recent conflict in Gaza, which occurred between 10 and 21 May, killing 260 and injuring 1,948. Over half the dead (129) were civilians, including 66 children. And children accounted for almost a third (610) of the injured. The report specifically focuses on three Israeli airstrikes that killed 62 Palestinian civilians.
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It is Apartheid: The Reality of Israel’s Colonial Occupation of Palestine
Yet another report has added further weight to the allegation that Israel continues to commit the crime of apartheid on both sides of the Green Line. This latest report has been published by the Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
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A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
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 all Palestinians including those enjoying Israeli citizenship.
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Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Calls on UN Committee to Recognise Israel’s Discrimination as Apartheid
“Israel has created an institutionalised regime of racial domination and oppression over the Palestinian people as a whole, using the strategic fragmentation of the indigenous Palestinian people and of the oPt as a main tool for the maintenance of its apartheid regime, which predates its ratification of ICERD and is rooted in the foundational laws of the State of Israel, its discriminatory policies and practices.”
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Captive Markets, Captive Lives | Palestinian Workers in Israeli Settlements
This report by Al-Haq provides insight into the inhumane treatment of Palestinians who work in Illegal Israeli settlements, and it illustrates how their fundamental rights are systematically denied and disregarded, including by a dual legal system that privileges Jewish workers and upholds discriminatory working arrangements.
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Written Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Mr. Fabian Salvioli, on Transitional Justice Measures and the Legacy of Human Rights Violations in Colonial Contexts
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 all Palestinians including those enjoying Israeli citizenship.
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, respecting an investigation of the Situation in Palestine
“Today, I confirm the initiation by the Office of the Prosecutor (”Office”) of the International Criminal Court (”ICC” or the ”Court”) of an investigation respecting the Situation in Palestine. The […]
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Judge, Jury, and Occupier
Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian land has long been expanded and entrenched through systemic violence manifested in settlements, checkpoints, and more. However, most importantly, the military rule enforced by courts and prisons. This reports illustrates the role of courts, prisons and the overarching military rule that blocked Palestinians from achieving their inalienable rights. Palestinians have never stopped fighting for their inalienable rights, which are denied to them by the systemic and daily violence of occupation.
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchel Plitnick unmask the systems and structures that enable progressives to separate Palestine from all other rights-based struggles and treat it differently. They also highlight how US policy entrenches Israel’s authoritarian rule over Palestinians, and observe how Israel perpetuates this oppression by misrepresenting Palestinians who speak of their oppression as anti-Semites motivated by a hatred of Israel.
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Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine
Jeff Halper argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community.