Since the wave of protests began on 30 March 2018, near the Gaza-Israel ‘border’, the Israeli military has killed 32 Palestinians in Gaza, 26 of which are demonstrators, and injured more than 1,000 with live ammunition. Despite the heavy toll on deaths and permanent injuries, all state and military officials refuse to cancel the unlawful...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
Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchel Plitnick unmask the systems and structures that enable progressives to separate Palestine from all other rights-based struggles and treat it differently. They also highlight how US policy entrenches Israel's authoritarian rule over Palestinians, and observe how Israel perpetuates this oppression by misrepresenting Palestinians who speak of their oppression as anti-Semites...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
This was a HRC resolution condemning widespread, systematic and gross violations of international human rights arising from Israeli military operations carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories beginning on 13 June 2014.Read More
An essential primer for those getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction. The book is rooted in the author's extensive personal experience in Palestine and includes testimonies by Palestinians describing how Israeli apartheid affects their daily...Read More
"This report [by Amnesty International] shows how Israeli forces have repeatedly violated their obligations under international human rights law by using excessive force to stifle dissent and freedom of expression, resulting in a pattern of unlawful killings and injuries to civilians, including children, and have been permitted to do so with virtual impunity due, in...Read More
"The combined effect of the measures designed to ensure security for Israeli citizens, to facilitate and expand settlements, and, it would appear, to annex land, is hafrada, discrimination and systematic oppression of, and domination over, the Palestinian people." The Special Rapporteur recommended that the General Assembly "request the International Court of Justice to issue an...Read More
Beyond Occupation analyses three critical terms that regularly arise in contemporary arguments about Israel's practices towards Palestinians in the occupied territories – occupation, colonialism and apartheid – and explores the degree to which their definitions in international law truly apply to Israel's policies. Colonialism and apartheid are serious breaches of human rights law while apartheid...Read More
This resolution regretted non-cooperation by Israel with the fact-finding mission into the Gaza flotilla incident and decided to follow-up at its 17th session in June 2011.Read More