“More than 1.4 million of our people are treated as third-class citizens in apartheid Israel in a way reminiscent of the racism of the White Supremacists of the apartheid regime of South Africa. The new American administration is not supposed to tolerate apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law. In a nutshell, what we...Read More

“[T]he country’s largest human rights group may have rescued the possibility of open and honest discussion from those who seek to stifle free speech under the cloak of combating anti-Semitism. Such is the goal of those advocating the adoption of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. B’Tselem’s groundbreaking paper and an equally...Read More

“B’Tselem makes a strong case [on apartheid], one that will be a difficult for the Biden administration to ignore. The organization’s reputation, and its identity as an Israeli rights group, will make it more difficult for American leaders to dismiss the group’s characterization. Nonetheless, it is likely that Biden’s first inclination will be to ignore...Read More

“According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.’ The lawyers cited this in their letter and argued that this right is embodied...Read More

“‘Avrum,’ as he’s widely known, is out to discard one title: his designation as a Jew according to the population registry of the Interior Ministry. In an affidavit he will submit to the Jerusalem District Court, Burg writes that he no longer considers himself as belonging to the Jewish nationality. He adds that his conscience does...Read More

“It’s quite possible that one of the reasons that Israel’s version of apartheid has outlived South Africa’s is that Israel has managed to maintain its oppressive system using not just the guns of soldiers, but also by keeping this nuclear gun pointed at the heads of millions. The solution for this is not for Palestinians...Read More

Sir Michael Lynk, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, has submitted his fifth report to the UN General Assembly. Here he highlighted that, despite his repeated requests, he had not been granted access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Israel. This, in addition to the...Read More

The vast majority of Palestinians support the three rights-based demands of the BDS movement, as founded in international law.Read More

In response to the State of Israel’s institutionalized discrimination against its non-Jewish citizens, the NGO Adalah proposed and alternative “democratic, bilingual, multicultural” constitution.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