Summary
Palestinian-Hebrew scholar, as Stateless Citizenship (2013) identifies him, author of Israel: An Apartheid State (1987) and its sequel Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (2003), whose distinction between racism and Apartheid Chapter 2 adopts (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.119-120).
Details
- Davis as quoted: “Racism is not apartheid and apartheid is not racism. Apartheid is a political system where racism is regulated in law through acts of parliament” (Davis 2003, 37, PDF p.120).
- In an apartheid state, on Davis’s account, “the state enforces racism through the legal system, criminalizes expressions of humanitarian concern and obligates the citizenry through acts of parliament to make racist choices and perform racist behaviour”, whereas in liberal democratic states those victimized by racism have legal recourse under a democratic constitution (Davis 2003, 37, as quoted, PDF p.120).
- Molavi’s note on the 2003 book: it laid out, in great detail, Israel’s violations of international law and most UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, and challenges Israel’s mainstream characterization in Western academic and political spaces as the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’; Davis identifies himself as a ‘Palestinian-Hebrew’ national of Jewish origin (PDF p.120, footnote 120).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Apartheid, Karine Mac Allister