AREN’T THERE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SOUTH AFRICA?
Of course there are differences. However, there are more than enough similarities to meet the definition of ‘apartheid’ under international law, which is: “inhumane acts… committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.” The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa used this definition to assess whether Israel was practising apartheid, and concluded that the ‘three pillars’ of South African apartheid are present in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians: (1) demarcation of the population into racial groups, and according superior rights, privileges and services to the dominant racial group; (2) segregation of the population into different geographic areas, which were allocated by law to different racial groups, and restrict passage by members of any group into the area allocated to other groups; and (3) a matrix of drac
