The scale of discrimination among the different Palestinian fragments, in comparison to the Jewish privilege. Racial classification and discrimination is key to the current Israeli fabric.Read More
Only apartheid-era South Africa has been condemned by more UN Security Council resolutions than Israel. However, unlike most countries on this list, Israel has never been subjected to UN sanctions.Read More
Official trailer for the upcoming movie Roadmap to Apartheid. Narrated by Alice Walker. There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience of Apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world. Roadmap to Apartheid explores in detail the apartheid comparison as it is used in the enduring Israel-Palestine conflict. As much an historical...Read More
The documentary film “Roadmap to Apartheid” was screened at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on October 5, 2012, accompanied by filmmakers Ana Noguiera and Eron Davidson in a QA moderated by Dr. Barry Trachtenberg, director of the SUNY Albany Judaic Studies Program. www.RoadmaptoApartheid.org www.mediasanctuary.org Created by Ana Noguiera (South African) and Eron Davidson (Israeli), “Roadmap...Read More
The 100-year-old colonial occupation project is about rendering of the Palestinians as non-people, writing them out of the historical narrative as if they never existed and denying them basic human rights. The colonial project which also became an apartheid that surpasses the onetime savagery and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy was always exclusively...Read More
Merkel’s responsibility under the Apartheid Convention should be to assist in holding Israel accountable to the vast crimes it commits against the Palestinians, including those with Israeli citizens. Germany is in violation of its responsibility to obstruct investigations of the ICC.Read More
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has warned that the recently-announced US plan "is not a recipe for a just and durable peace but rather endorses the creation of a 21st century Bantustan in the Middle East" consisting of "scattered archipelagos...Read More
"[T]he 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 give full effect to article 3 of the Convention to eradicate all forms of segregation between Jewish and non-Jewish communities...Read More
Israeli soldiers killing, injuring or beating a Palestinians: a collection of testimonies for a single instance each year since 1989. The report traces the development of each case describing its whitewash by the state’s legal branches. The violence and its whitewashing are the two remedies that make up the occupation. The two are closely intertwined:...Read More