"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

Since 1967, the pace of rapid construction of Israeli settlements has accelerated, in parallel with the destruction and demolition of hundreds of Palestinian homes by the occupation authorities. More than 94000 settlement were built by the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian territories since 1967. More than 47000 house were demolished by the Israeli occupation in...Read More

Demonstrating Israel’s use of security excuses to deliberately implement a policy that makes life unbearable for the Palestinian residents of Hebron’s Old City, in an effort to drive them from their homes. The policy imposed two administrative rules in one city, since the massacre of Palestinians by Baruch Goldstein 25 years ago – enabling a...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

The report reveals Israel’s exploitation of the West Bank for the treatment of Israeli waste – including hazardous waste. In doing so, Israel abuses its power as an occupying regime and exposes the Palestinian residents to environmental and health hazards – without Palestinian consent. “This reality is simply one more facet of the exploitative policy...Read More

Over the past twenty years, Israel has taken measures to guarantee its impunity from its obligation under international law to compensate Palestinians harmed by its security forces. The report describes the development of this practice, and the approach in which it led to a major drop in the number of filed claims in recent years....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

This was a resolution that condemned Israeli settlements and was adopted with 14 votes in favour and a US abstention.Read More

The report by B’t Selem illustrates the approach Israel is using to grab Palestinian rural space, by fragmenting it, dispossessing its residents of land and water, and then handing it over to settlers. A case study of three villages in the Nablus District – ‘Azmut, Deir al-Hatab and Salem – narrates the experience undergone by these communities since Israel established the Elon Moreh settlement nearby. The case study, illustrates the broader policy Israel isimplementing throughout the...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