Archive for March, 2010

Do Israel’s practices in the Occupied Territories amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law? A document based on a legal study by the Human Sciences Research Center of South Africa and summarized by Frances H. ReMillard.

The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, in its efforts to eliminate and prevent the kind of suffering the South African and Namibian people suffered under apartheid, commissioned a legal study of the Israel-Palestine situation. “The aim of this project was to scrutinize the situation from the nonpartisan perspective of international law, rather than engage in political discourse and rhetoric.” The results are astounding.