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Israeli apartheid is a system of institutionalized segregation and discrimination in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and to a lesser extent in Israel proper. This system is characterized by near-total physical separation between the Palestinian and the Israeli settler population of the West Bank, as well as the judicial separation ...
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the ...
[27] [28] Since the definition of apartheid as a crime in the 2002 Rome Statute, attention has shifted to the question of international law. [29] In December 2019, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [30] announced it was reviewing the Palestinian complaint that Israel's policies in the West Bank amount to apartheid. [31]
The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, [1][2] is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as a necessary security barrier against Palestinian political violence; whereas Palestinians describe it as an element of racial segregation ...
The word has become shorthand for systems of oppressive rule around the world — and a popular refrain of pro-Palestinian activists.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 September 2024. South African system of racial separation This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation). Part of a series on Apartheid Events 1948 general election Coloured vote ...
In a paper entitled "Nishul (Displacement): Israel's Form of Apartheid," Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, wrote that: "Hafrada (Apartheid in Afrikaans) is the official Hebrew term for Israel's vision and policy towards the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories – and, it could be argued (with qualifications ...
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on 10 November 1975, " Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination " with 72 votes in favour, 35 votes against, and 32 abstentions. It was revoked by Resolution 46/86, adopted on 16 December 1991 with 111 votes in ...