The report by PCATI investigates the manner in which the Military Police Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU or Metzakh) examines complaints filed regarding soldier violence towards Palestinian detainees in the Occupied Territories between 2007 and 2013, with only two becoming indictments. “The CIU’s actual role is to cover up systematic violations and create illusion of examination...Read More
An essential primer for those getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction. The book is rooted in the author's extensive personal experience in Palestine and includes testimonies by Palestinians describing how Israeli apartheid affects their daily...Read More
Ben White issues an expanded second edition of his daring book: Israeli Apartheid. This is short, sharp and cutting overview of the Palestine/Israel conflict that pulls no punches, and tells history as it really is - an apartheid systemRead More
Beyond Occupation analyses three critical terms that regularly arise in contemporary arguments about Israel's practices towards Palestinians in the occupied territories – occupation, colonialism and apartheid – and explores the degree to which their definitions in international law truly apply to Israel's policies. Colonialism and apartheid are serious breaches of human rights law while apartheid...Read More
“The Committee draws the State party’s attention to its general recommendation 19 (1995) concerning the prevention, prohibition and eradication of all policies and practices of racial segregation and apartheid, and urges the State party to take immediate measures to prohibit and eradicate any such policies or practices which severely and disproportionately affect the Palestinian population...Read More
"The Tribunal finds that Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalised regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law. This discriminatory regime manifests itself in varying intensity and forms against different categories of Palestinians depending on their location. The Palestinians living under colonial military rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are...Read More
The Attorney General’s decision maintained the absolute immunity granted by Mahash to the police officers implicated in the lethal shootings of 13 Arab citizens of Israel in October 2000. By endorsing Mahash’s decision and notwithstanding its grave failings, the Attorney General establishes low and inappropriate standards for the authorities’ duty to investigate and indict those...Read More
"This short paper provides a list of 20 main new laws and currently-tabled bills that discriminate against the Palestinian minority in Israel and threaten their rights as citizens of the state, and in some cases harm the rights of Palestinian residents of the OPT. While this paper does not cover the entire body of discriminatory and/or...Read More
This groundbreaking series of essays answers key questions, such as: What has been the main achievement of the Zionist movement? What accounts for the failure of the Palestinian National Movement to win its struggle against Israel? What do anti-Semitism, colonialism and racism have to do with the Palestinian/Israeli 'conflict'? Joseph Massad offers a radical departure...Read More