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Apartheid
Get the facts about how apartheid shapes daily life for Palestinians: Checkpoints, segregated roads, permit systems, and ID laws restrict movement, divide families, and deny basic rights.
Leading human rights organizations — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem — have for years documented how Israeli authorities enforce a system of laws and policies that discriminate between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. These investigations describe a regime where two populations live under different legal systems in the same territory, with Palestinians subject to military rule and widespread restrictions on movement, property, and civil rights. Such practices violate core principles of international law, including the prohibition against apartheid. In 2024, the International Court of Justice affirmed that these patterns of domination and segregation meet the legal definition of apartheid
Photo: Human Rights Watch
“ In a historic ruling the International Court of Justice has found multiple and serious international law violations by Israel towards Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including, for the first time, finding Israel responsible for apartheid.
The court has placed responsibility with all states and the United Nations to end these violations of international law.”
Tirana Hassan, Human Rights Watch Executive Director,
July 2024
Apartheid in 15 minutes
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The Palestine Academy
An educational hub for everyone interested in educating themselves on the history of Palestine. Videos, courses and inspiration for further reading.
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This is Apartheid
Explainer of the Israel Apartheid rule and how Israel has divided the area and the Palestinians into several distinct units. In each one, Palestinians are granted a different set of rights, which is never equal to the rights granted to Jews.
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World Court Finds Israel Responsible for Apartheid
This judgment reinforces calls for global accountability and affirms decades of documentation by Palestinian voices and leading rights organizations.
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This is Apartheid, not democracy.
B’Tselem’s 2021 report “This Is Apartheid” states that Israel governs the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as a single regime of Jewish supremacy, where Palestinians are systematically denied equal rights.
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Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians
In this article from September 2023, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo breaks a long-standing silence within Israel’s security establishment by calling the occupation of the West Bank what many international observers have long described: a system of apartheid.
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The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
This Al Jazeera article explains how Israel’s color-coded ID system governs nearly every aspect of Palestinian life under occupation. By assigning different ID cards based on geography and legal status, the system restricts movement, fragments communities, and enforces a dual-tiered structure of rights.
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Israel’s Apartheid ID Sytem
This simple and short video from IMEU compares the lives of two Palestinians living under Israel’s color-coded ID system — showing how a person’s assigned status controls where they can live, move, access healthcare, and even who they can marry.
Key reports & rulings
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A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Human Rights Watch’s 2021 report “A Threshold Crossed” finds that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid and persecution against Palestinians, citing a state policy to ensure Jewish Israeli domination enforced through systemic discrimination across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians
Amnesty International’s landmark 2022 report concludes that Israel is enforcing a system of apartheid against Palestinians across both Israel and the occupied territories. Through policies of segregation, land seizure, movement restrictions, and political exclusion, the system is designed to maintain Jewish Israeli domination
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ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024
Official advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) — the UN’s top legal authority — on Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories. Issued in July 2024, the Court found that Israel’s prolonged occupation, land annexation, and dual legal systems violate international law and amount to apartheid. While not legally binding, this opinion represents the most authoritative legal judgment on the situation to date.
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Automated Apartheid: How facial recognition fragments, segregates and controls Palestinians in the OPT
This 2023 Amnesty International report examines how Israeli authorities use facial recognition technology to reinforce control over Palestinians in the occupied territories. The report shows how these tools deepen segregation and restrict freedom of movement — entrenching a system of apartheid through digital means.
Debunking 6 Apartheid Myths
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An illustration of Israel’s color-coded ID system. Palestinians are issued different identity cards depending on where they live. These IDs govern access to movement, rights, and essential services, effectively fragmenting Palestinian society. The system is widely recognised by human rights experts as a key tool of institutionalised segregation within the broader apartheid regime.
Image: Mondoweiss.com
Insightful videos exploring how the realities of the Israeli apartheid system impact the daily lives of Palestinians.
So Close Yet So Far – Visualizing Palestine
In Palestine, distance is measured not just in kilometers, but in the insurmountable apartheid laws, bureaucracy, and infrastructure that keep so many Palestinians from a normal life in their own homeland.
Why is Israel being accused of being an apartheid state? – Al Jazeera English
Once used only for South Africa, 'apartheid' now describes Israel’s rule over Palestinians. Watch this 15-minute video to understand why.
A Threshold Crossed – Human Rights Watch
This short video introduces Human Rights Watch’s landmark report accusing Israeli authorities of committing apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.
How Surveillance Tech is Used to Oppress Palestinians Through Apartheid? – Amnesty International
This video recaps Amnesty’s report on “Red Wolf” — a facial recognition system used to surveil Palestinians at checkpoints, reinforcing Israel’s apartheid system in the occupied West Bank.
Inside Israeli Apartheid – Mondoweiss
For decades Palestinians have accused Israel of the crime of Apartheid, imposing two different systems to the people on the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea: one system that privileges Jews, and another that discriminates against Palestinians.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on witnessing apartheid in Palestine – Al Jazeera English
In this powerful interview, acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates shares how witnessing life under occupation in the West Bank transformed his understanding of Israel–Palestine. He draws parallels to systemic racism in the U.S. and critiques media silence around Palestinian suffering.
So Close Yet So Far – Visualizing Palestine
In Palestine, distance is measured not just in kilometers, but in the insurmountable apartheid laws, bureaucracy, and infrastructure that keep so many Palestinians from a normal life in their own homeland.
A Threshold Crossed – Human Rights Watch
This short video introduces Human Rights Watch’s landmark report accusing Israeli authorities of committing apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.
Inside Israeli Apartheid – Mondoweiss
For decades Palestinians have accused Israel of the crime of Apartheid, imposing two different systems on the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea: one system that privileges Jews, and another that discriminates against Palestinians.
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