Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel’s 90-member Olympic team. “Sports Apartheid” is the correct term for preventing 20 percent of your fellow citizens from competing internationally. What’s also amazing is that until now, no one in the U.S. mainstream press has even bothered to report on this injustice.
Many Israeli government ministries have no services in Arabic. Most museums provide no information in Arabic; and the Palestinian Arab society in Israel has no museum or cinema that does programming in Arabic. While Israel’s international airport only lately provided signs in Arabic, after holding out for years.
“Our family lives in constant fear, stress, and lack of freedom” — Taiseer Khatib explains the impact of the Israeli Citizenship Law on his Palestinian family.
For Israel, the future of Jewish majority – read: supremacy – is dependent on the Jewish population remaining larger than that of Palestinian Arabs. For this reason, Israel is likely to delve even deeper into the abyss of apartheid.
Testimonies from Palestinians detained at the Nazareth police station during the May uprising reveal graphic reports of extreme psychological and physical abuse at the hands of Israeli special forces. “It was a madhouse, there is no other way to describe it,” detainee Carlo Roushroush tells Mondoweiss.
Wesam Sharaf, an advocate with the Civil and Political Rights Unit at Adalah talks with Yumna Patel about the impact of the “Unity Uprising” on Palestinian citizens of Israel.
The election of Naftali Bennett is a perfect illustration of how Israel’s system of apartheid works.
Since May 9th, Israel has detained more than 2,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel. None have been more dramatic or notable than the detention of Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib.
Israel commonly uses administrative detention against Palestinians in the occupied territory. Now, the Israeli government is also indefinitely detaining Palestinian citizens of Israel following the recent uprisings in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza.
Apartheid in South Africa ended in part due to sanctions and pressure from the international community. It is once again on the international community to ensure that international law is upheld and apartheid sees its demise — this time in Palestine.