montelatici
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Maybe a pro Palestinian can answer this question: If Israel is an Apartheid state, then where is the Apartheid in Israel proper?
Interesting question, according to the definition of the Crime of Apartheid which states, inter alia:
"For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of apartheid", which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them:
a. Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the right to life and liberty of person:
i. By murder of members of a racial group or groups;
ii. By the infliction upon the members of a racial group or groups of serious bodily or mental harm, by the infringement of their freedom or dignity, or by subjecting them to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
iii. By arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment of the members of a racial group or groups;
b. Deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions calculated to cause its or their physical destruction in whole or in part;
c. Any legislative measures and other measures calculated to prevent a racial group or groups from participation in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the country and the deliberate creation of conditions preventing the full development of such a group or groups, in particular by denying to members of a racial group or groups basic human rights and freedoms, including the right to work, the right to form recognized trade unions, the right to education, the right to leave and to return to their country, the right to a nationality, the right to freedom of movement and residence, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;
d. Any measures, including legislative measures, designed to divide the population along racial lines by the creation of separate reserves and ghettos for the members of a racial group or groups, the prohibition of mixed marriages among members of various racial groups, the expropriation of landed property belonging to a racial group or groups or to members thereof;
e. Exploitation of the labour of the members of a racial group or groups, in particular by submitting them to forced labour;
f. Persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid."
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume 1015/volume-1015-I-14861-English.pdf
The following Israeli laws have been shown to breach the above convention:
Emergency Land Requisition (Regulation) Law (1949)
Development Authority (Transfer Of Property) Law (1950)
Absentees’ Property Law (1950)
State Property Law (1951)
Land Acquisition (Validation Of Acts And Compensation) Law (1953)
Keren Kayemet Le-Israel Law (1953)
Prevention Of Infiltration (Offenses And Jurisdiction) Law (1954)
Basic Law: Israel Lands (1960)
Israel Lands Administration Law (1960)
Planning And Building Law (1965)
Agricultural Settlement (Restrictions On Use Of Agricultural Land And Water) Law (1967)
Registration Of Inhabitants (1949)
Law Of Return (1950)
Absentees’ Property Law (1950)
Nationality Law (1952)
Entry Into Israel (1952)
Prevention Of Infiltration (Offences And Jurisdiction) Law, (1954)
Population Registry Law (1965)
Identity Certificate (Possession And Presentation) Law (1982)
Nationality And Entry Into Israel (Temporary Order) Law (2003)
Nationality And Entry Into Israel (Temporary Order) (Amendment) Law (2005)
World Zionist Organization – Jewish Agency (Status) Law (1952)
Keren Kayemet Le-Israel Law (1953)
Peanut Production And Marketing Board Law (1959)
Vegetable Production And Marketing Board Law (1959)
Egg And Poultry Board (Production And Marketing) Law (1963)
Planning And Building Law (1965)
Fruit Production And Marketing Board Law (1973)
Galilee Law (1988)
Negev Law (Amendment)(1988)
Defense Army Of Israel Ordinance (1948)
Defense Service Law (1949)
Discharged Soldiers (Return to Work) Law (1949)
Grants to Soldiers and their Families Regulations (1970)
Discharged Soldiers Law (1984)
Israel Defence Forces (Permanent Service) (Benefits) (Consolidated Version) (1985)
Discharged Soldiers (Adjustment Grant) Law (1988)
Defense (Emergency) Regulations (1945)
Amutot Law (1980)
Basic Law: Knesset (Amendment 9)(1985)
All are still on the statute books as far as I know and apply to "Israel proper"
THAT'S what you call Apartheid ? Oh, the horror !!!!!
I suppose the American law that only someone born here can become president, can also be considered Apartheid.
That is an erroneous interpretation of the law. A natural born citizen is one born anywhere of at least one U.S. parent. That is not Apartheid as it does not discriminate against any specific race, ethnicity or religion. It is based on citizenship and how it is derived. Nice try though.
Apartheid states tend to have signs like this: