Israeli Apartheid

Israeli is an apartheid state”: It’s a fact – not an opinion!

For Decades, people have been debating whether Israel is an Apartheid state or not.

Legal Definition

Apartheid has an International Legal Definition
International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

  
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

 
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

 
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".
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The crime of apartheid under the Apartheid Convention and Rome Statute consists of three primary elements: 

  • an intent to maintain a system of domination by one racial group overanother; 

  • systematic oppression by one racial group over another; 

  • and one or more inhumane acts, as defined, carried out on a widespread or systematic basis pursuant to those policies

Other reports on Israeli Apartheid

Some people think this is a recent debate because of the statements made by Al Haq, B'Tselem (Israel's Largest Human Rights organisations) and Human Rights Watch (an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights) and Amnesty International.

Its Not. This debate has been going on for Decades with report after report detailing Israeli Apartheid.

2022 - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967

2019 - Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

 
2002 - UNGA 4th Committee

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2017 - UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia


2017 - Human Rights Council


2022 - International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School and Addameer


2020 - Yesh Din


2012 - Russell Tribunal on Palestine


2009 - Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa

  • Occupation, colonialism, Apartheid?: a re-assessment of Israel's practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law

  • http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/research-data/view/4634

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2006 - President Carter - Book

 
2002 – Anglican Communion News Service

 
And many, many more going back to 1967 and then 1948.


This debate has been going on for Decades and Governments around the world have Chosen to "Look The Other Way" On Israeli Apartheid (defined as a Crime Against Humanity in the Rome Statute - Article 7 - Crimes against Humanity, item 1 - j).

The debate started as far back as 2002 with the United Nations General Asembly debate - "Israeli Practices in Occupied Palestinian Territories - Form of Apartheid" 

So for more than 20 years, Governments have Chosen to ignore Crimes against Humanity and tried to hide behind the excuse - "It's Complicated"!

It is Not Complicated.

Either:
         1)   You Actively Support International Law, UN and Human Rights Conventions
or
         2)   You are on the side of the Oppressor

As Desmond Tutu has stated - “If you are Neutral in situations of Injustice, you have Chosen the side of the Oppressor".

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