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About Israel Apartheid Weeks
Politics , Middle East/West Asia
Ends: Mar 07, 2022
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Created in 2004 as End Israeli Apartheid and Segregation Week, this awareness and advocacy campaign has become a worldwide phenomena with events throughout the globe in most major cities. The event became simply Israeli Apartheid Week in 2017 and now occurs over a two month period of time, with each nation organizing according to its own schedule within this period.
The goal is to end the practice of apartheid worldwide. Currently the state of Israel is its most notable practitioner. During the period set aside for Israel Apartheid Week, organizers throughout the world on a local level use non-violent methods to protest the practice of apartheid and promote democracy. The ultimate goal being that all people living within the State of Israel and its Occupied Territories, regardless of race, origin or faith, have equal rights as human beings, opportunity, equal access to resources and respect in practice and under as agreed by representatives of the state in 1947 at the United Nations and as enshrined in international law and treaties, to which Israel is a signatory.
What is Apartheid?
Apartheid is the practice of using politics, military and law to create a system where one group of people is preferred over another based upon ethnicity, faith, politics or some other arbitrary segregator. The preferred people are endowed with special privilege, above-equal and preferential access to resources and services. They often have segregated housing, schools, roads, courts and employment opportunities. Segregation is based solely upon the identifying segregator. There is a two tiered legal system and the government and military work together to enforce this segregation.
How Israel Practices Apartheid
In Israel, the primary selector is faith, the secondary selector is race. Those identified as Jewish are preferred and live in a republic based upon democratic principles. Those identified not as Jewish (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, etc...) live in a fascist state, with nominal or no rights depending upon where they live in the region (occupied or within the green line). Israel has over 70 laws on its books guaranteeing this unequal treatment by faith, with the latest being the Nation State Law of 2018. Israel has no constitution. Jewish persons can argue their rights in civil courts. Non-Jewish persons are tried in military courts and can be held indefinitely without charges, (renewed every 6-months). Jewish people can only be held with charge and under the law. This is a textbook example of a two-tiered legal system.
Israel is a nuclear super power, with one of the ten most powerful militaries in the world. It uses this military power to enforce apartheid on those it occupies and to disenfranchise those within the state who are not Jewish. The people it oppresses have no army, navy or air force. They can be attacked, and are attacked, with impunity by the military and by the settler movement, often killed or permanently maimed, as the Great March of Return has shown with 170 Palestinians killed by Israeli snipers and 18,000 injured, as of this writing.
Israeli apartheid is more brutal than that experienced in South Africa. The use of the military to bomb, raze homes, limit access to natural resources, lay siege and blockades, elevates Israeli apartheid to a new level. The construction of the wall, ten times the size of the Berlin Wall, Jewish only roads, Jewish only housing, (enforced and protected by the military), hundreds of checkpoints and the collective punishment of millions of people, simply because they are not Jewish, further illustrates the aggressive nature of Israeli style apartheid.
What you can do:
Through non-violent means like Israeli Apartheid Week, awareness, education and advocacy help expose this practice. A nation state cannot be democratic and practice apartheid, period. Like with South Africa, Israel's apartheid policies will only end when the international community says 'enough!'. Help us get to enough. Check the Israeli Apartheid Week site for opportunities to help in your city and country, or to register an event of your own.
VIDEOS
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
Is Israel an Aparthied State? FAQs
Poster for Israel Aparthied Week 2014
ADDITIONAL IMAGES
Boy on Ruins of His Home After an Israeli Bombing. Photo Mohammed Omer
Young Man Escaping an Israeli Bomb. Photo Mohammed Omer
Map of How Israel Has Annexed and Occupied Palestine between 1947 to Now.
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