COMMENT: Africans — South Africans in particular — having been subjected to similar forms of oppression and having waged similar campaigns for their own liberation, could help in all these respects.
Few people are as well positioned to discuss the Israel apartheid analogy as John Dugard. A highly regarded legal scholar and human rights activist, Dugard played an important role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Between 2001 and 2009 he acted as a United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
Yet after 52 years of increasingly entrenched military and civilian control, this is nothing but a lame disguise for permanent domination. But Dugard is careful not to extend this definition to the Israeli state itself beyond the 1967 territories. Just three weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote: “Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people — and its alone.”
The 2018 law merely entrenches long-held practices that have seen the state of Israel confiscating 90% of the land that Palestinian citizens held in 1948, constructing hundreds of settlements for Jews and none for Arabs, subjecting Palestinians to military rule until 1966, and subtler forms of political restriction after that, and allocating resources in a sharply unequal manner, benefiting Jewish citizens and municipalities in access to grants, services and facilities in the fields of health,...
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