Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2013/08/01 by Jackie Dugard, John Reynolds · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #International Law and Human Rights #Middle East Politics and Society

paper · doi:10.1093/ejil/cht045

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Abstract

Apartheid is a loaded term; saturated with history and emotion. It conjures up images and
\nmemories of discrimination, oppression, and brutality; indulgence, privilege, and pretension;
\nracism, resistance, and, ultimately, emancipation. All of which come to us through
\nthe history of apartheid in South Africa. Although prohibited and criminalized by international
\nlaw in response to the situation in southern Africa, the concept of apartheid
\nwas never given enormous attention by international lawyers. Following an awakening
\nof interest in the international legal prohibition of apartheid as a potentially appropriate
\nlens through which to view the situation of the Palestinians, this article examines the
\nmerits of such a claim in the context of Israeli law and practice in the occupied Palestinian
\nterritory.

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