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Unlike South Africa, the world is giving Israel a pass on apartheid
A UN Security Council resolution rejecting South Africa’s 1983 constitution shows that there is precedent and necessity to act against Israel’s Nation-State Law. In a referendum on November 2, 1983, White voters in apartheid South Africa approved a new constitution to restructure their political system. In addition to consolidating executive power with the presidency, a tricameral parliament…
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Amjad Iraqi
July 26, 2019
The ‘NY Times’ puts apartheid on page one
Netanyahu and the Israeli right’s alternative to the two-state solution appears to be taking shape. There are only so many ways of describing that shape, and the reality to which it leads. Out of the six times that the word apartheid has been used to describe Israel or Israeli policy on page A1 of the…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 2, 2018
Beneath the illusion of a temporary occupation lies apartheid
By claiming that its control over Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is temporary, despite lasting longer than South African Apartheid by any measure, Israel is able to justify a regime that denies one group political and civil rights while privileging another. By Fady Khoury The so-called temporary nature of Israel’s control over the…
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December 13, 2017
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The incremental annexation of Palestine
Israel’s justice minister announces a plan to apply Israeli law to parts of the West Bank, or in other words, annexation. By taking an incremental approach, she stands a pretty good chance of succeeding. Success, however, will expose the true nature of Israel’s discriminatory regime. Each time a right-wing Israeli politician introduces a law that…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
May 4, 2016
The blame game, then the shame game
Neither Israeli nor Palestinian leaders prepared their constituencies for the eventual historic change should Kerry have been successful. On the contrary, Netanyahu applied every trick up his sleeve to play the blame game, diverting maximum blame onto the Palestinians. By Ilan Baruch In his speech in Jerusalem a year ago, President Obama told us peace in…
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May 12, 2014
On the Israel-apartheid analogy, yet again
The apartheid debate is no longer restricted to referencing specific South African practices. Instead, international law is increasingly becoming the guiding framework. By Ran Greenstein Thomas Mitchell raises an important methodological point in his article “Call it colonialism, call it occupation – just don’t call it ‘apartheid,’” which I address here. Unfortunately, in making this point…
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May 8, 2014
Call it colonialism, call it occupation – just don’t call it ‘apartheid’
‘Apartheid’ is rapidly becoming the new political term of condemnation and delegitimization in international politics. But is it truly the best description of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians? By Thomas Mitchell Is apartheid an appropriate term to describe Israel’s occupation of the West Bank? In an article published on +972 late last year, Ran Greenstein argued…
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May 5, 2014
The occupation doesn’t have an ‘image problem’
In a January 2014 New York Times op-ed that I somehow just noticed now, a South Africa-born Jew insists that Israel is not an apartheid state. Hirsh Goodman, a journalist and political commentator who immigrated to Israel in 1965, agrees that the occupation must end. Not because it’s evil to deprive a whole nation of…
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Lisa Goldman
May 3, 2014
Who can say if it’s ‘apartheid’ or not?
Why does most coverage discussing Israel and the ‘A-word’ exclude the voices of black South Africans? Text and photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org Noticeably absent from most coverage of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s use of the term “apartheid” are the voices most qualified to make the comparison. The Daily Beast article that broke…
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Activestills
May 1, 2014
State Department stumbles: If not apartheid, then what?
Asked what word Secretary Kerry would have used in place of ‘apartheid,’ his use of which stirred up a small storm in the U.S. this week, the State Department is hard pressed to give an answer. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the State Department on Tuesday were scrambling to diffuse the storm that…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 30, 2014
Kerry apologizes for speculating that theoretically, in the distant future, Israel could do something bad
It took Secretary of State John Kerry exactly 24 hours after his “apartheid” comments were revealed by The Daily Beast to issue a comprehensive apology for the remarks. Despite demands from the American right, Kerry did not resign. The New York Times reports: In the statement that Mr. Kerry issued Monday, which bore the title “On…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 29, 2014
Kerry warns: Israel could become an apartheid state
The apartheid analogy is common among centrist Israeli politicians, but the U.S. administration has been careful not to use it in the past. Also: What makes Kerry think that Israel is not already ‘a unitary state?’ The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin obtained a recording of a meeting in which Secretary of State John Kerry used the term…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 28, 2014
Ten reasons why the anti-Apartheid movement is immoral, hinders peace
Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday giving his top 10 reasons why boycotting Israel is immoral. What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this. By Sol Salbe Ten reasons why the anti-Apartheid movement is immoral and hinders peace The anti-South African movement…
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February 13, 2014
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