Recently Amnesty International became the latest human rights organization to accuse Israel of apartheid when it released a report describing Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people as “a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity”.
The report has been hailed by advocates as a breakthrough, and yet there have been critics of it within the Palestine movement who have focused on the limitations of the apartheid framework.
In this episode, Mondoweiss Executive Editor Adam Horowitz speaks to Lana Tatour about the Amnesty International report and the need to understand Israeli apartheid in the context of settler-colonialism.
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Articles and Links mentioned in the show
- Amnesty report: The limits of the apartheid framework, Lana Tatour (Middle East Eye)
- Why calling Israel an apartheid state is not enough, Lana Tatour (Middle East Eye)
- The “Unity Intifada” and ’48 Palestinians: Between the Liberal and the Decolonial, Lana Tatour (Institute for Palestine Studies)
- Dismantle What? Amnesty’s conflicted messaging on Israeli Apartheid, Soheir Asaad and Rania Muhareb (Mondoweiss)
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Very interesting, but how will Israel respond to the decolonization movement?
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-697070
“Palestinians will have ‘an entity,’ not a state, says Gantz…”
Apartheid-lite: Israel will put hard borders around the Palestinian reservations and make efforts to keep the settlers out, and maybe even allow a modest return of refugees to the new reservations, and call it an ‘autonomous region’ (like Hong Kong), and declare the problem solved. But of course the reservations won’t have control over their borders.
List of ‘autonomous areas’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autonomous_areas_by_country
Very interesting, but ….
We need to follow a Palestinian agenda, but there is no clear Palestinian agenda. Palestinians are very divided. And there is no agreement at all on e.g. one state or two states, on what the goal should be. So what should we follow?
Without a clear goal there is a danger that the Palestinian struggle is decapitated by a smart Zionist “concession” that promises to end the apartheid, but doesn’t really do so. That would be similar to how Oslo decapitated the first intifadah with the promise of a two state solution.
Ending settler-colonialism is only part of the goal, i.e. what should be ended, the other part is what should replace it?
“Settler-colonialism” in an already-settled land, is ethnic cleansing colonialism, to create (Jews-) Zionist-only colonies, roads etc.