The question is not: "Is Israel the same as South Africa?"
It is: "do Israel's actions meet the international definition of what apartheid is?"
The word apartheid refers to any institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another. The "Israeli Arabs" - about 1.4 million Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens who live in Israel - vote in elections. But they are a subordinated and marginalized minority. A Star of David on Israel's flag symbolically tells Palestinian citizens: "You do not belong." Israel's Law of Return grants rights of automatic citizenship to Jews anywhere in the world, while those rights are denied to 750,000 Palestinian refugees, and their descendants, who were forced or fled in fear from their homes in what became Israel in 1948.
Even members of the Israeli political elite use the term apartheid to describe the system they administer -- the latest being the current defense minister (and former prime minister) Ehud Barak who stated: "If there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic... If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a binational state, and if they don't, it is an apartheid state." more
“The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel like South Africa, is an apartheid state” (Rand Daily Mail, 23 Novemeber 1961). Those were not the words of Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu or Ruth First, but were uttered by none other than the architect of apartheid itself, racist Prime Minister, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd.
The Israel Divestment Campaign is working to require California's public retirement systems, the State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), to sell stocks held in companies that profit from Israeli settlements or provide military equipment and services to the State of Israel. more
The two-state solution to the conflict in Israel/Palestine has lost credibility because the conditions imposed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories have made it impossible. Yet the alternative–a unified democratic state such as was created in South Africa – contradicts how the world understands the basic formula for a peaceful resolution, which assumes that Israeli Jews and Palestinians cannot live together peacefully and must be physically and politically divided into two independent states. more
"Blood And Religion" The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
Published in 2006, Jonathan Cook’s book "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" is the rarely told story of the plight of Israel's 1.4 million Arab citizens, the discrimination against them, the reasons why, and the likely future consequences from it. more
A racism outside of language: Israel's apartheid
When it is leveled at Israel, the charge of apartheid generates not counter-argument backed by counter-evidence, but rather walls of sheer stony denial, if not inarticulate eruptions of blind rage, as though either denial or sheer fury could permanently forestall argument. more
Gaza, One Year On: the Palestinian Struggle Continues
One year later, the deadly attacks which targeted an already suffering Gaza Strip have become yet another chapter in the epic tragedy that is the Palestinian struggle for freedom. more
Goldstone and Israeli Apartheid
The application of Israeli domestic laws has resulted in institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians in the OPT to the benefit of Jewish settlers, both Israeli citizens and others... more
Names and photos of Israeli war criminals
Kawther Salam's blog more
"Thousands" of Kassams, but how many Israeli shells?
BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre, is an independent organization devoted to creating a more supportive environment for Israel in the UK. BICOM Statistics: Since 2001, total number of identified rocket and mortar shell hits: 9,145. more
Visit the Hasbara Buster
"Misrad ha-Hasbara" is the Israeli agency charged with producing the official story, i.e.: office of propaganda. more
Why boycott Israel?
Israel is distinguished from other nations in ways that justify a boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign. more
Shattering Israel's image of 'democracy'
In the Negev, an area targeted for so-called 'development', lies the Israel that its government does not want to be seen more
Guidelines for Applying the International Cultural Boycott of Israel
As published July 20, 2009 by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). more
Recommended Reading:
"Israeli Apartheid - A Beginner's Guide" more
Water Apartheid
Israel not only steals West Bank water, it doesn't provide water to some of its own (non-Jewish) citizens. more
Palestine in Context
Online version of CEIA-SC's exhibit/booklet about the Palestinian struggle for justice. more
Not an Analogy: Israel and the Crime of Apartheid more
Israel and South Africa - Parallels and Pacts more
State of Denial: Israel 1948-2008
This article by Ilan Pappe questions the use of the term "Nakba," (catastrophe) to define what he claims should be called what it truly was - and continues to be: Ethnic Cleansing. more
Israel’s Apartheid | more
Segregation of Jews and Arabs in 2010 Israel is almost absolute | more
Bedouins deprived of right to vote | more
Why Not Sanctions for Israel? | more
Boycotts don't equal censorship | more
Israel's laws of persecution | more
The Middle East "peace industry" | more
The Kingdom of Lies - Racism and Zionism | more
The Roots of Hate in Zionist Ideology | more
The Disgrace of Hebron | more
Soldiers Confirm Israel's War Crimes in Gaza | more
Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism | more
Egypt helps to starve the Palestinians | more
Blood on Their Hands - Demonizing the Palestinians | more
Dead Palestinian babies - IDF fashion 2009 | more
Israeli settler leader calls for assassination of Abbas | more
Under attack: how medics died trying to help Gaza's casualties | more
Hamas accused of war crimes in Gaza | more
Applicability of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel | more
Can Mitchell turn Jerusalem into Belfast? | more
Israeli army "subcontracted" by extremist settlers | more
Self-Defense Against Peace | more
Likud Charter does not recognize Palestine | more
South African workers say "no" to Israeli apartheid | more
Israeli university welcomes "war crimes" colonel | more
Standing the law on its head | more
UN moves to charge Israel with war crimes | more
Israeli Elections: Solidifying Fascism | more
The Death of 2 States and the Zionist Left | more
Gaza Families Down to a Meal a Day | more
Weaponized Sentry-Tech Towers "Protecting" Hot Borders | more
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