Over 200 academics and experts have introduced a new anti-Semitism definition known as the “Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism” (JDA) which allows the criticism of Israel.  Unlike the contested IHRA definition which institutionalises the persecution of organisations or persons that oppose apartheid or criticise the apartheid regime, the new definition preserves, to a large extent, the...Read More

“As leading figures of the Palestine movement have pointed out, this conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism is a blatant attempt to intimidate, persecute, and ultimately silence the Palestinian rights movement in the United States and around the world. It is built on the false assumption that Zionism is synonymous with Judaism, and that Israel’s seventy-three-year occupation of Palestine is...Read More

South Africa is working to fulfill its Read More

“The United Nations should take action against Israel’s discriminatory policies and compel it to respect relevant international laws on equality and non-discrimination… since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, successive Israeli governments have unfortunately, chosen the wrong side of history, where they enacted numerous exclusivist policies that discriminate against the Palestinian Arab...Read More

“A one-state already exists, Halper argues. The question is how to transform a settler-colonial, apartheid state into a secular democratic state for all its citizens. … Implementing the single democratic state, of course, will require reckoning by both Israelis and Palestinians, yet it is the former that needs to contend with the legacy of violence...Read More

“The real significance of the JNF’s latest decision is that it strips away the pretense that the Fund makes a distinction between land in Israel and the occupied territories.  It underlines the argument made in a report in January by Israel’s most prominent human rights group, B’Tselem, that Israel operates a single apartheid system inside Israel and the...Read More

“Recently, one of Israel’s most respected human rights NGOs joined a multitude of civil society organizations, including a plethora of Palestinian organizations and scholars, in naming this reality as a system of apartheid. They rightly said that systematic racial discrimination acts as an organizing principle upholding the supremacy of one group, Jews, over another, Palestinians. While a...Read More

“Instead of clinging to the aspiration for a Jewish majority, one should adhere to the principle of equality for all.”  This was the message of the DAAM party in Jerusalem, which stressed that if the will and courage existed, the city can be transformed from one that symbolizes apartheid into a gateway of hope for...Read More

This article reviews the history of the establishment of the Israeli apartheid regime and its recognition as an apartheid regime.  It re-iterates that Israeli practices are not only reminiscent of, but also in some cases, worse than the apartheid regime in South Africa. It also calls on the international community to intensify its solidarity with...Read More

“…it is becoming increasingly difficult to criticize Israel without being branded an anti-Semite. You are an anti-Semite if you support the International Criminal Court’s recent ruling that it has jurisdiction to open a war crimes investigation against Israel. But you are also likely to be called an anti-Semite if you reject the logic informing the...Read More