Increasingly, Israel is being referred to as an apartheid state, a state that has created a discriminatory society, by law, a state that specifies rights, benefits and advantages for its Jewish population that are not available to others of its citizens or residents, a âlegalâ separatist state. Some fifty Israeli laws secure this separatism. It is often compared to apartheid South Africa. In this book the similarities and differences between the two apartheid regimes are compared and analyzed.
One significant difference: Israel's population essentially invaded, sacked, and continues to militarily occupy what's left of Palestine. This demolishes the often-heard canard that "the two sides" should just sit down together and negotiate. By contrast, the South African constituencies were both native to the land.
The United Nations Apartheid Convention declares that apartheid is a crime against humanity and that âinhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid and similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discriminationâ are international crimes.
Here we explore modern apartheid in Israel, condoned, indeed supported by the United States, in contrast to attempts here to bury our own Jim Crow legacy.
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