Summary
Author of “Applicability of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel” (Badil Resource Center, al-Majdal no. 38, Summer 2008), the legal framework Stateless Citizenship (2013) draws on in Chapter 2 for a systematic account of Israeli Apartheid covering the whole of Palestinian society (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.120).
Details
- Her framing as quoted: “wherever they are and whatever their legal status … Palestinian citizens of Israel, refugees, and those in the OPT are victims, albeit in different ways, of Israel’s regime of apartheid” (PDF p.120).
- The two relevant racial or ethnic groups for ascription of the crime are Palestinian nationals and Zionist Jewish-Israelis, identified by self-identification: for Palestinians, whether they identify themselves as Palestinian nationals, regardless of geographic location or legal status; for the dominant group, whether people identify themselves as Jewish citizens of Israel and Zionists — “[o]nly those who have voluntarily become Israeli citizens and adhere to Israel’s political ideology, Zionism, constitute the relevant ‘racial’ or ‘ethnic’ group in this context” (PDF p.122-123).
- Mac Allister’s note, recorded by Molavi: Jewish Israelis who have opposed Zionism and recognize Palestinian rights cannot be held to the same level of accountability, and the framework also enables holding international actors who supported the Zionist project, such as Christian Zionist groups, accountable (PDF p.123, footnote 127).
- The regime is geographically continuous: “since it is the same state operating on behalf of the Zionist Jewish Israeli group that is implementing these laws, policies and practices with the clear goal of establishing and maintaining the domination of that group in Israel and the OPT, then it is inaccurate to consider the violations as limited to one area” (PDF p.125).