This guide was created by the team at The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy and curated by Slingshot Media’s advocacy team
Last Update: 3/16/2023
On the annual occasion of the Israeli Apartheid Week, we updated our Resource Guide with resources in different formats to understand Israeli Apartheid, and to help us to continue to reflect and decolonise our perspectives in order to carry our collective and intersectional struggles against systems of domination, colonial power, oppression and apartheid.
Key Reports:
- “Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism”, report by Al-Haq, November 2022
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967, September 2022.
- Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity, Amnesty International, February 2022.
- A Threshold Crossed Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, Human Rights Watch, 27 April 2021.
- A Regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid, B’Tselem, January 2021.
- Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian people and the Question of Apartheid, UN ESCWA 2017.
- Advocating for Palestinian Rights in conformity with International Law, Birzeit University 2013.
Articles of analysis:
- “It’s undeniable Israel is an apartheid state”, Jacobin article by Yara Hawari.
- “Critique as Movement Building:the Apartheid Reports on Palestine”, Mada Masr article by Tareq Baconi.
- International Law and the anti-Apartheid movement, Rania Muhareb, Al-Shabaka.
- “Why calling it an Apartheid state is not enough” MEE article by Lana Tatour.
- “How Palestine’s Climate Apartheid is Being Depoliticised” Open Democracy article by Muna Dajani.
- “Myth: Israel is not an apartheid state”, article by Decolonize Palestine.
Books:
- The Apartheid Museum Resources
- Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti.
- Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide by Ben White.
- The Rise and Fall of Apartheid by David Welsh.
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis.
Videos:
- Inside Israeli Apartheid, Mondoweiss, 22mins
- Palestine, a story of colonialism and resistance, Makan, 5mins
- “Why Israel is an Apartheid State?”, Salem Barahmeh, 2:30min
- Israel’s wall: Security or apartheid?, AJ+, 3:52mins
- South African apartheid vs Israeli apartheid, The Daily Vox, 2:46mins
Podcast Episodes:
- Al-Shabaka’s Rethinking Palestine: Limitations and the Possibilities of the Apartheid framework.
- This is Palestine Podcast: Amnesty International is Saying Israel is Guilty of Apartheid.
- The MondoWeiss Podcast: Ep.31 Settler-Colonialism and the Limits of the Apartheid Framework.
- Apartheid Off Campus podcast: Ep. Kicking Apartheid off Campus, a conversation with AOC Activists.
Social Media Accounts for Israeli Apartheid Week:
- Twitter:@apartheidweek.
- Instagram: @israeli_apartheid_week.
- Facebook: @IsraeliApartheidWeek.