Apartheid is a system of discrimination based on race. Israel imposes this on Palestinians. Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International call what Israel is doing apartheid.
Palestinians living in Israel are treated legally, politically and economically as second-class citizens.
The Israeli Law of Return gives Jews around the world the right to live in Israel. But the same law denies Palestinians the right to return to their ancestral homes.
In the occupied West Bank more than 70km of roads are ‘Israeli-only’.
A deeper dive.
According to the UN, apartheid is a system whereby one racial group controls another through prolonged and cruel discrimination.
Israel is imposing apartheid on Palestinians, according to leading international human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Palestinians have said this for decades.
Over 70km of roads are ‘Israeli-only’ in the illegally occupied West Bank. Access to healthcare also depends on who you are. Palestinians cannot access the same high-quality healthcare as Israeli settlers. Israel’s systematic discrimination means that a Palestinian woman in the West Bank is 9 times more likely to die in childbirth than an Israeli woman.
In Israel, Palestinians are treated legally, politically and economically as second-class citizens. The Israeli Law of Return gives Jews around the world the right to live in Israel. But the same law denies Palestinians the right to return to their ancestral homes.
In 2021, Human Rights Watch and leading Israeli NGO B’Tselem published landmark reports about Israel’s apartheid system. In 2022, Amnesty International agreed. Amnesty’s Secretary General Dr Callamard said that Palestinians are treated as ‘an inferior racial group’ and ‘Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession, and exclusion… amount to apartheid’.
Join FOA’s #EndIsraeliApartheid movement today to help end apartheid.
