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