B’Tselem's findings on "apartheid" in Israel

This is a report about the findings published this year by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem in their report, A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid 01/12/2021.

“It Is Apartheid”: Rights Group on How Israel Advances Jewish Supremacy Over Palestinians Democracy Now! 05/20/2021:

Hagel El-Ad, executive director, days in the report, "If it looks like apartheid, is simply because it is apartheid." The interview with Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy is also impressive and informative.

The report argues that although, legally, the areas controlled by Israel include both Israel in its internationally recognized national borders and occupied territories, in practice Israel, in practice Israel is exercising control over the entire area and have created a situation where it is de facto a single state .

More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea under a single rule. The common perception in public, political, legal and media discourse is that two separate regimes operate side by side in this area, separated by the Green Line. One regime, inside the borders of the sovereign State of Israel, is a permanent democracy with a population of about nine million, all Israeli citizens. The other regime, in the territories Israel took over in 1967, whose final status is supposed to be determined in future negotiations, is a temporary military occupation imposed on some five million Palestinian subjects.

Over time, the distinction between the two regimes has grown divorced from reality. This state of affairs has existed for more than 50 years – twice as long as the State of Israel existed without it. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers now reside in permanent settlements east of the Green Line, living as though they were west of it. East Jerusalem has been officially annexed to Israel’s sovereign territory, and the West Bank has been annexed in practice. Most importantly, the distinction obfuscates the fact that the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is organized under a single principle: advancing and cementing the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians. All this leads to the conclusion that these are not two parallel regimes that simply happen to uphold the same principle. There is one regime governing the entire area and the people living in it, based on a single organizing principle. [my emphasis]

B’Tselem's website carries this notice, which certainly invokes a strong ironic note, given the massive assistance the State of Israel receives from the United States, in particular:

Obviously, not all foreign money is equal. And every government regulates foreign contributions as deems necessary. The list of donors currently posted on their website is dated 11/30/2017.