It’s official: Israel is an apartheid state that is occupying Palestine illegally – according to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice.
The court has found that Israel has annexed Palestinian land and asserted permanent control over it and the people living there, in violation of international law.
It’s the big story of the day – but you won’t find it on the BBC News website. Why do you think that is?
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The court also found Israel in breach of Article 3 of the international Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which says: “Parties particularly condemn racial segregation and apartheid and undertake to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories under their jurisdiction.”
It said this was because Israel has imposed and maintains a near-complete separation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between the settler and Palestinian communities.
The Guardian tells us:
Breaches of international law identified by the court included:
- Forcible evictions, extensive house demolitions and restrictions on residence and movement.
- The transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and East Jerusalem and maintenance of their presence.
- Its failure to prevent or to punish attacks by settlers.
- Restricting the access of the Palestinian population to water.
- Israel’s use of the natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territory.
- The extension of Israel’s law to the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The court has ordered Israel to end its occupation of Palestine as soon as possible – and to make full reparations for its “internationally wrongful acts”.
But here’s the sticking-point: This is only an advisory opinion, provided in response to a request from the United Nations general assembly in 2022.
UN secretary general António Guterres has passed the decision on to representatives of the organisation’s 193 member states and it will then be for the general assembly to decide how to proceed.
Predictably, Israel has condemned the court’s ruling as “one-sided” and “anti-Semitic”, and accused the ICJ of “supporting terrorism”.
We should bear in mind that the court’s opinion is based on the situation before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the genocide in Gaza that was launched in response.
But it certainly has a bearing on that conflict.
And this means Israel’s allies – including the United Kingdom – must now reconsider their own relationship with what is now officially a rogue, apartheid state that flagrantly breaches international law every day.
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It’s official: Israel IS an apartheid state that is occupying Palestine illegally
It’s official: Israel is an apartheid state that is occupying Palestine illegally – according to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice.
The court has found that Israel has annexed Palestinian land and asserted permanent control over it and the people living there, in violation of international law.
It’s the big story of the day – but you won’t find it on the BBC News website. Why do you think that is?
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
The court also found Israel in breach of Article 3 of the international Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which says: “Parties particularly condemn racial segregation and apartheid and undertake to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories under their jurisdiction.”
It said this was because Israel has imposed and maintains a near-complete separation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between the settler and Palestinian communities.
The Guardian tells us:
The court has ordered Israel to end its occupation of Palestine as soon as possible – and to make full reparations for its “internationally wrongful acts”.
But here’s the sticking-point: This is only an advisory opinion, provided in response to a request from the United Nations general assembly in 2022.
UN secretary general António Guterres has passed the decision on to representatives of the organisation’s 193 member states and it will then be for the general assembly to decide how to proceed.
Predictably, Israel has condemned the court’s ruling as “one-sided” and “anti-Semitic”, and accused the ICJ of “supporting terrorism”.
We should bear in mind that the court’s opinion is based on the situation before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the genocide in Gaza that was launched in response.
But it certainly has a bearing on that conflict.
And this means Israel’s allies – including the United Kingdom – must now reconsider their own relationship with what is now officially a rogue, apartheid state that flagrantly breaches international law every day.
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