Book Review: Apartheid in Palestine: Hard Laws and Harder Experiences by Ghada Ageel (original) (raw)
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This paper will examine whether the mainstream accusation of Israel being an apartheid state has some validity to it and if so, to what extent. In doing so, it will help build upon the already present political literature surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while presenting a different perspective in the context of apartheid. Specifically, this paper analyzes the historical creation of Israel and how that directly set the tone for the inequalities present in the state today. In this regard, I rely on two case studies, which help determine whether Israel really qualifies as apartheid, so to speak, in terms of international law. Moreover, I present a rebuttal to my thesis and attempt to foil it.
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In this chapter I conceptualise and contextualise Israel's apartheid system as a core feature of settler-colonial rule in Palestine since the Naqba and – more recently – as an increasingly central focus of international legal analysis of the Palestinian reality. The chapter begins by situating Israeli apartheid within Zionism’s colonial project in Palestine, and by highlighting the longstanding Palestinian intellectual and activist traditions which have provided the foundations for now-widespread understandings of the apartheid nature of Israel’s regimes of oppression and exclusion of the Palestinians. I trace the vital role that Palestinian lawyers and rights organisations played from the 1980s in developing extensive legal analyses of Israeli apartheid, which western liberal human rights organisations have lately endorsed and elaborated. The chapter then fleshes out some of the key legal and material characteristics of Israel’s apartheid regime as not just a racially discriminatory regime but a colonial-apartheid regime. With that in mind I consider the tactical possibilities and pitfalls for movements seeking to mobilise international law to end apartheid, with reference to the definitions and prohibitions of apartheid that exist across a number of branches of international law.