APARTHEID ISRAEL

In 2022, Amnesty International issued a report, “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity”:

“Amnesty International has analyzed Israel’s intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights. It has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.”

In 2021, two major civil rights organizations, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem, both issued reports concluding that Israel—the Jewish state—is officially an “apartheid state.” The Israel-based B’Tselem reported that the “Jewish state” is “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid,” and it outlined the specific legal variances that advantage Jews over Palestinians.[1]

The 213-page report by the Nobel Prize-winning Human Rights Watch concluded that Israeli authorities:

“have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians….[And] [i]n certain areas…these deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”

[1] B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202101_this_is_apartheid_eng.pdf;