For over 100 years, the Zionist colonization of the historic lands of Palestine accelerated, starting from the first Zionist colony "Rishon LeTsiyon", under Ottoman rule, continuation of building colonies under the British mandate, until the day that Israel occupies West Bank, Gaza and Syrian Golan Heights.Read More

Between 1947 and 1949, the Zionist military forces seized more than 500 Palestinian villages and towns, caused the displacement of their populations. The following infographic shows how the displacement and destruction of Palestinian villages started before Israel establishment. 1945: more than 1000 Palestinian towns and villages according to British survey. 12 May 1948: population of...Read More

"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...Read More

Israel’s Supreme Court have validated the state’s planning apparatus in the West Bank, enabling it to continue implementing illegal policies. Over and over again, the decisions ignore the state’s planning apparatus’ almost absolute prohibition on Palestinian construction with the aim of taking as much Palestinian land as possible. A careful examination of hundreds of High...Read More

Israel has now constitutionally entrenched the homogenous ethnic sovereignty of the Jewish people with the passing of the Nation State Law on 19 July 2018. The law subordinates all Palestinian and other non-Jewish citizens without consent. It also enshrines into the fabric of Israeli statehood that only the Jewish people have the right to self-determination...Read More

Zionists know that this is worse than apartheid, even if they try to deny it or make it ‘prettier’. You cannot make this much prettier, although ‘liberal Zionists’ definitely try to. They know it because their logic tells them anything else would endanger the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state which is their goal. Mondoweiss presents quotes...Read More

The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia conducted a report examining the Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, March 2017: "This report concludes that Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole."Read More

Based on historical foundations, the book by Dr. Nadim Rouhana examines the approach in which Israel institutionalizes ethnic privileging among its nationally diverse citizens. Contributors to this book discuss the paradoxes of democratic claims in ethnic states, and the dynamics of social conflict in the absence of equality. This book advances a new understanding of...Read More

During the 2014 summer attacks, Israeli security forces killed 1,391 people, including 526 minors, who did not participate in the fighting. The report describes Israel’s approach in creating false appearance of investigations for grave breaches of the law during the fighting, when in fact, those truly responsible – the policymakers resining and issuing the orders...Read More

Any comparison of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to apartheid South Africa, is usually met with swift denunciation. The book by Ilan Pappe marks the first major scholarly book analyzing the apartheid analogy and its implications for international law, activism, and policy making. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines and fields from both countries, including historians, political...Read More