Resources

For beginners

Israeli Apartheid Week, Table: The System of Israeli Apartheid Laws

Kairos Palestine & Global Kairos for Justice: A Dossier on Israeli Apartheid, a Pressing Call to Churches around the World

Visualizing Palestine, series of visuals, “Hafrada-Apartheid”

Amnesty International, video, “Israel’s System of Apartheid against Palestinians, Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity”

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), slide presentation, “Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid”

Civil society anti-apartheid mobilization (key documents)

Occupation, settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid? - Advocating for Palestinian Rights in Conformity with International Law: Guidelines

Prepared for non-lawyers by the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem in cooperation with the Birzeit University Institute of Law, February 2014.

Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish,German

World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), Durban South Africa, NGO Forum Declaration and Programme of Action, calling among others for the launch of an international campaign against Israel’s apartheid as implemented against apartheid in South Africa (2001)

PACBI Call for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (2004);

Available also in Arabic and Spanish

Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights (9 July 2005).

Issued also in Arabic - Spanish - French - Italian - German - Hebrew - Slovak - Russian - Turkish

Palestinian Civil Society Strategic Position Paper: “United against Apartheid, Colonialism and Occupation, Dignity and Justice for the Palestinian People” (2008)

Endorsed by nearly 100 Palestinian and international civil society organizations and networks, presented on the margins of the Durban World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) Review Conference, Geneva, April 2009 Available also in Spanish and Arabic

Russell Tribunal on Palestine, a people’s court, Cape Town Session on Israeli Apartheid (November 2011)

Global South Statement of 10 ex-presidents and over 700 members of parliament, diplomats and cultural figures from Asia, Africa and Latin America endorsing the United Palestinian Call (English, Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili, 2020)

United Palestinian Civil Society Call for Immediate Targeted Sanctions to Stop Israel’s Annexation and Apartheid (2020)

Reports of human rights organizations

Al Haq, “Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler-Colonialism”, November 2022

Al Haq, “Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler-Colonialism”, the most comprehensive Palestinian analysis of Israel’s regime of oppression and recommendations for dismantling it (November 2022)

Palestinian human rights organizations, joint submission on Israeli apartheid to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (November 2019)

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, The Gaza Bantustan – Israeli Apartheid in the Gaza Strip (2021)

B’Tselem, A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid, available in English, Arabic and Hebrew (January 2021)

Human Rights Watch, A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, summary available in French (April 2021)

Amnesty International, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity, available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic (February 2022)

United Nations

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the OPT, Prof John Dugard, Report A/HRC/4/17, (29 January 2007)

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Concluding Observations: Israel, CERD/C/ISR/CO/14-16 (3 April 2012)

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the OPT, Prof Richard Falk, Report A/HRC/25/67 (13 January 2014)

UN ESCWA, Israeli Practices toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, (March 2017; removed from UN website upon instruction by the UN Secretary General)

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Concluding Observations: Israel, CERD/C/ISR/CO/17-19 (12 December 2019)

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the OPT, Prof Michael Lynk, Report A/HRC/49/25 (23 February 2022)

Academic studies & analysis

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 (May 2009)

John Dugard & John Reynolds: Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, European Journal of International Law (EJIL, 2013)

John Reynolds, Israel and the A-Word, an article reflecting on the United Nation’s (non)acceptance of findings confirming Israeli apartheid (March 2017)

Yara Hawari, Apartheid from Within? The Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Al-Shabaka policy brief (November 2017)

Noura Erakat & John Reynolds, We Charge Apartheid? Palestine and the International Criminal Court, Third World Approaches to International Law Review (2021)

Jan Eiken, updated analysis of process and outcomes of Palestine’s interstate complaint against Israel for racial discrimination

Submitted to the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 2018; blog of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL)

International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School & Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Apartheid in the Occupied West Bank: A Legal Analysis of Israel’s Actions,

Joint submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (February 2022)