The published arguments that Israel practices apartheid are built on a three-element test taken from Article 7(2)(h) of the 1998 Rome Statute: inhumane acts, committed inside an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another, and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime. The word itself arrives from a specific statute book in a specific country, which is why the arguments are not made as a comparison to South Africa but as a claim that a treaty definition is satisfied. The four best-known determinations were issued within 14 months of each other, they agree on the legal architecture, and they differ on the territory they cover. Their evidence, at the points that carry the most weight, is Israeli: enacted Knesset statute, an Israeli Supreme Court ruling, and the Central Bureau of Statistics’ own published counts.
Key Findings
- Article 7(2)(h) of the Rome Statute (1998) defines the crime of apartheid through three elements: inhumane acts, an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups, and the intention of maintaining that regime.
- The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1973) enumerates six lettered categories of inhuman acts in Article II, and states that the term “shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa.”
- Neither treaty defines “racial group.” The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965), Article 1, defines racial discrimination by distinction based on “race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin,” four grounds beyond race alone.
- Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, passed by the Knesset in 2018, states in clause 1(c) that “the realization of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish People,” and in clause 7 that the State “views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value.” Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the law in HCJ 5555/18 on 8 July 2021 while holding that the Knesset may not deny the state’s core character as Jewish and democratic.
- Becker, Ascone and Troschke (2022), peer-reviewed, coded 1,504 comments on UK media Facebook pages during the May 2021 escalation and judged 26.9% antisemitic; among those, the apartheid analogy appeared in 5.2% and an “evil” stereotype in 39.8%.
What do the apartheid reports actually argue?
Both of the long reports argue the same three elements, in the order the treaty sets them: inhumane acts, an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another, and the intention of maintaining that regime.
The structure is Article 7(2)(h) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted in 1998, which defines the crime of apartheid as inhumane acts “committed in the context of an institutionalized 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.”
Human Rights Watch published its 213-page report in April 2021 under the title A Threshold Crossed; Amnesty International published its 280-page report in February 2022 under the title Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians. Each concludes that all three elements are met. Each is the organization’s own determination, reached on its own reading of the treaty text and its own documentation, and neither is a judicial finding.
The older instrument runs on similar language with a different accent. The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 30 November 1973 and in force from 18 July 1976, applies its Article II to inhuman acts “committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them.” The 1973 text speaks of purpose; the 1998 text speaks of intention. Both make the mental element as load-bearing as the conduct.
That matters for how the arguments are organized. A reader looking for a list of grievances finds one in the reports, but the list is not the argument. The argument is that each item on the list occupies a place in a three-part legal test, and the two harder places are the second and the third: the existence of an institutionalized regime, and the intent to maintain it. Sections below take the elements in that order, because that is the order the organizations themselves use.
Do all the major rights organizations argue the same thing?
The convergence is real and it is tightly dated. Four bodies adopted the characterization within 14 months. B’Tselem published first, in January 2021. Human Rights Watch followed in April 2021, Amnesty International in February 2022, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory in a statement issued through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in March 2022, which described a 55-year occupation.
What differs is the territorial unit each argument covers, and the differences are not marginal.
B’Tselem’s January 2021 framing treats all the territory Israel controls as governed by a single regime, which collapses the distinction between Israel inside its pre-1967 borders and the areas it occupied afterwards. Human Rights Watch’s April 2021 report addresses Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and does not extend the finding to Palestinian refugees outside them. Amnesty International’s February 2022 report is the widest: it covers Israel, the occupied territories, and Palestinian refugees denied return. The March 2022 Special Rapporteur statement is framed around the occupation itself, which is a narrower geography than either of the two reports.
So a reader who has met the phrase as a single position from a single voice is meeting a compression. The four bodies agree that the treaty’s test is the right test and that it is satisfied. They do not agree on where the alleged regime begins and ends, which means they do not agree on which populations and which legal statuses fall inside the claim. A determination about the West Bank permit regime and a determination that includes a refugee in Lebanon are different claims resting on different bodies of evidence, even when both are summarized under the same word.
None of the four is a court judgment. Each is a publication by an organization with a stated human-rights mission, setting out its own conclusion, and each is dated to the period above.
How do the arguments define the two groups involved?
The treaty requires domination by “one racial group over any other racial group or groups,” and neither the 1973 Convention nor the 1998 Rome Statute defines what a racial group is. The reports bridge that gap with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted in 1965, whose Article 1 defines racial discrimination as any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on ”race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin,” four grounds alongside race itself.
That definitional step does a great deal of work in the argument, and it is worth stating plainly because it is easy to miss. Read through the 1965 definition, “racial group” is a legal category that reaches descent and national or ethnic origin, not a biological one. Human Rights Watch in 2021 and Amnesty International in 2022 each argue on that basis that Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are racial groups within the meaning of the apartheid provisions, and that the treaty standard therefore has two groups to compare.
Without that step, the rest of the argument has nowhere to land: conduct documented at any scale does not become the crime of apartheid unless it runs between two groups the treaty recognizes. With it, the question shifts from what the definition means to whether the conduct fits, which is the shift the reports are asking the reader to make.
The 1973 Convention adds a second interpretive question inside its own text. Article II says the term “shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa.” Whether that clause anchors the crime to the historical case or merely names its origin is a reading question the text does not settle on its face, and it recurs in the scholarly disagreement further down.
How do the reports argue intent to dominate?
The intent element is argued from enacted Israeli text, and the single strongest document either report has is Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, passed by the Knesset in 2018. Its clause 1(c) reads, in the Knesset’s own English translation, which the Knesset labels unofficial: ”The realization of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish People.”
Three further clauses recur in the argument. Clause 1(b) states that Israel “is the nation state of the Jewish People in which it realizes its natural, cultural, religious and historical right to self-determination.” Clause 7 states that the State “views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value, and shall act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.” Clause 4 makes Hebrew “the language of the State” and gives Arabic “a special status,” while preserving Arabic’s prior practical status. The law contains no equality clause and no individual-rights clause, which is a fact about the text and not a finding about how anyone is treated.
Human Rights Watch’s 2021 report argues the intent element is visible in Israeli policy statements and planning documents on land and demography; Amnesty International’s 2022 report frames the same element as a purpose of benefiting Jewish Israelis. Both are the organizations’ own readings of the material they cite.
The domestic judicial record on that statute runs in two directions at once. In HCJ 5555/18 Hasson v. Knesset, decided on 8 July 2021 by an eleven-justice panel after argument on 22 December 2020, Israel’s Supreme Court dismissed fifteen petitions and upheld the Basic Law. In the same judgment the Court held that the Knesset, acting as constituent authority, is “not all powerful” and lacks authority, even by Basic Law, to deny or facially contradict the core character of the state as Jewish and democratic. The limit the Court drew is narrow: whether an amendment denies the core democratic identity or inflicts mortal harm on the minimal core characteristics of that identity. The Court derived the limit from what it called the elements of the constitution, including the 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, which pledges “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex.” The law stands, and a constitutional ceiling was stated above it.
Which inhumane acts do the reports name?
The 1973 Convention’s Article II lists six lettered categories of inhuman acts, and the two reports do not populate them identically. Amnesty International’s 2022 report names forcible transfer, administrative detention, torture and other ill-treatment, unlawful killings and serious injury, and the denial of basic rights and freedoms as the acts it says constitute the crime.
Human Rights Watch’s 2021 report emphasizes a different cluster: land confiscation, the denial of building permits, home demolitions, and sweeping restrictions on movement, naming the Gaza closure and the West Bank permit regime specifically. Amnesty’s report describes the structure through which it says these operate as territorial fragmentation, segregation and control.
Each of those is that organization’s own documentation, gathered on its own definitions and case selection, and neither list is an independently verified count.
Most of the named conduct is placed by the reports inside two of the Convention’s six paragraphs. Article II(c) covers legislative and other measures calculated to prevent a racial group’s participation in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the country, and lists among them the denial of freedom of movement and of residence. Article II(d) covers measures designed to divide the population along racial lines, including the creation of separate reserves and the expropriation of landed property. The permit and closure material is argued under the first; the land, planning and demolition material under the second.
That is a narrower use of the treaty than the summaries suggest. The 1973 text also covers denial of the right to life and liberty, the imposition of living conditions calculated to cause physical destruction, exploitation of labour, and persecution of those who oppose apartheid, and those paragraphs carry less of the weight in either report. Reading the acts against the lettered categories rather than as an undifferentiated list shows which parts of the treaty the arguments actually invoke, and which they leave largely unused.
What does the argument say about Palestinian refugees?
Amnesty International’s 2022 report extends its finding beyond Israel and the occupied territories to Palestinian refugees denied return, arguing that the system it describes reaches all Palestinians wherever Israel’s authority extends. Human Rights Watch’s 2021 report does not make that extension. The extension reaches a population no census enumerates: the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics’ 2017 census counted 4,780,978 residents of the West Bank and Gaza, and it covers residents only.
The census is the third round the Palestinian statistical authority has conducted, after 1997 and 2007, and East Jerusalem could not be directly enumerated, so administrative estimates were used there. Palestinian figures for years before 1997 have no census basis at all. Every later total in the international series is a projection off the 2017 base.
The refugee population outside that base is not counted by any census in either series. Figures for it circulate from registration rolls held by the UN relief agency rather than from enumeration, and the two kinds of number are not interchangeable.
What is measured about that population cuts against treating it as one profile. Al-Qudsi (2000), peer-reviewed in International Migration, compared refugee and non-refugee Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza on education, labour-market attainment and demography, and found refugees somewhat better educated than non-refugees while showing only slightly higher fertility. The publisher gates the full text, so the comparison is carried at the level the paper states it.
The refugee element is therefore the widest part of the set and the part with the thinnest population arithmetic behind it. It is a claim about legal status, denial of return, rather than about conditions inside a territory whose residents have been counted three times.
Which Israeli sources do the reports cite as evidence?
The evidentiary base at the points that carry the most weight is Israeli. Both reports draw on enacted Knesset statute, Israeli Supreme Court rulings and the Central Bureau of Statistics’ own published counts, including the Bureau’s practice of reporting annexed East Jerusalem inside Israel’s totals: its Jerusalem Day 2024 media release recorded the city’s residents passing one million at the end of 2023, of whom 39.5% were Arabs and 60.5% Jews and Others.
That practice is a scope choice with consequences for any comparison. The Bureau’s Rosh Hashana 2025 release put Israel’s resident population at about 10.148 million, of whom roughly 7.758 million were Jews and Others and 2.130 million Arabs, and it counts East Jerusalem residents and West Bank settlers inside that total, unlike the international convention of publishing them separately. Hirsch-Hoefler and Ben Shitrit (2020), in a think-tank review of the CBS Yearbook, document the sequence: East Jerusalem entered the general population count for Israel proper in the 1968 yearbook, settlers were folded into Israel’s total by a 1970 footnote, settlement localities were counted among Israeli localities by 1983, and the separate territories chapter was removed in 1997. The authors call the trend normalization, which is their own analytic framing.
The same population can be published split by territory. DellaPergola (2019), in the American Jewish Year Book, reports that at the beginning of 2019, of 6,665,600 core Jews, 6,001,700 lived within Israel’s pre-1967 borders, 221,800 in East Jerusalem neighborhoods incorporated after 1967, 23,200 on the Golan Heights and 418,900 in the West Bank. Whether those four figures are one number or four is the accounting question the reports and the Bureau answer differently, and the answer determines which population the word “Israel” refers to in any sentence about the claim.
What do Israeli bodies say about these reports’ methods?
The published contestation of the reports’ method comes chiefly from advocacy-mission organizations rather than from a statistical or judicial record. NGO Monitor’s Annual Report 2024 records its own mapping of 157 groups in the United States that it identifies as linked to an anti-Israel network.
The same report also cites over 3,000 connections tied to that US network, alongside 111 groups in Canada with over 1,800 connections, according to NGO Monitor’s Annual Report 2024.
The report states neither its inclusion criteria nor its method.
Its other headline figure is a claim about its own effect: $28 million in funding cut off to NGOs by government funders that revised their policies, which NGO Monitor attributes to its own work. That is a self-attributed causal claim, not an audited funding total.
The Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (2025) contests a different characterization by a different route. Its essay on genocide claims performs its own arithmetic on figures supplied by parties to the conflict, and the page itself states that neither the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health total nor Israel’s estimate of fighters killed “has been independently confirmed.” It is a research-institute argument about a different word, on inputs it labels unverified.
The record that speaks to the citizens inside Israel is the official statistical series. The Central Bureau of Statistics reported 87.7% of Christian 12th-grade students eligible for a matriculation certificate in the 2024/25 school year, and 67.7% labour force participation among Christians aged 15 and over in 2024. Its 2022 release on the Moslem population put that population at 1.707 million at the end of 2021, 18.1% of all residents, with 39.3% labour force participation among Moslems aged 15 and over. Its Druze release put that population at about 152,000 in February 2024, with 5,859 Druze students in higher education in 2022/23.
Those figures describe citizens of Israel. They are not measurements of the West Bank or Gaza, and the boundary between the two is precisely where the four determinations differ from each other, so a statistic drawn from one side of it does not answer a claim pitched at the other.
Where do legal scholars split on the argument?
The disagreement concentrates on one of the three elements, and it is the second. The Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic, in a 2022 submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry co-authored with the Palestinian organization Addameer, argues that the apartheid framework applies in the West Bank on the treaty’s terms.
A working paper archived on SSRN under the title “Why Allegations that Israel Is An ‘Apartheid’ State Are False” argues the opposite, and its argument turns on the racial-group element rather than on the documented conduct.
That is the shape of the split in the literature. The conduct entries in the reports, land confiscation, permit denial, demolitions, closure and movement restriction, are the least contested part of the exchange, because most of the underlying facts sit in Israeli administrative and judicial records that the reports cite. What is contested is whether Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are racial groups within the meaning of the 1973 Convention and Article 7(2)(h), and whether the Convention’s reference to policies “as practised in southern Africa” restricts the crime’s reach or merely records its origin.
Both of those are readings of treaty language, which is why the disagreement does not resolve by adding documentation. A reader can accept every factual entry in a 213-page or 280-page report and still be at the start of the definitional question, and a reader who rejects the definitional step is not thereby disputing the entries.
One absence in the record is worth stating. No judgment of an Israeli court addresses the apartheid characterization itself. HCJ 5555/18, decided on 8 July 2021, ruled on the constitutionality of a Basic Law under Israeli constitutional doctrine, which is a different question from whether a treaty definition is satisfied, and it is the closest thing in the domestic judicial record.
Does online discourse repeat the organizations’ argument?
Only partly. Becker, Ascone and Troschke (2022), a peer-reviewed study of 4,500 comments on the Facebook pages of leading British, French and German media outlets reacting to the May 2021 escalation, coded 1,504 UK comments against an IHRA-based scheme and judged 26.9% antisemitic; among those, the apartheid analogy appeared in 5.2%.
The study judged 12.6% of 1,500 French comments and 13.6% of 1,520 German comments antisemitic, and it needed thread context to infer the antisemitic meaning in 38.7% of the UK cases. The shares are of keyword-selected comment samples inside one conflict episode, not of any platform’s traffic.
Set against the reports, the discourse runs on different material. The published arguments are organized around statute, planning records and a three-part legal test. The comment-level content the study coded runs mostly on stereotype and on the attribution of sole guilt, with the analogy that names the legal claim appearing in one comment in twenty of those coded antisemitic. The argument as published and the argument as circulated are separable objects, and only the second has been measured against antisemitic content.
The measured association between anti-Israel attitudes and antisemitism runs through conspiracy belief rather than through legal reasoning. Harber, Bulska, Malloy and Vila (2026), peer-reviewed in American Psychologist across three preregistered studies (N = 373, N = 243 and N = 493), report that their Conspiracies Mediated Model accounted for over 55% of the variance in anti-Israel attitudes, and that conspiracy beliefs implicating Israel and Zionists mediated the association between antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes, while conspiracy beliefs about Jews unrelated to Israel did not and a general conspiratorial mindset did not explain the results. These are correlational findings from survey and longitudinal designs, carried with the authors’ own framing.
Methodology and limitations
This report reads the arguments as published, the treaty texts they invoke, and the official records they rest on. Source types, labelled where used: treaty texts as primary records (the 1973 Apartheid Convention, the 1965 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the 1998 Rome Statute); enacted Israeli legislation and the 1948 Declaration as primary records, in the Knesset’s published English translations, which the Knesset labels unofficial; one Israeli Supreme Court judgment as a court record; Israel Central Bureau of Statistics media releases and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 2017 census as official statistics; peer-reviewed journal articles for the discourse and survey measurements; a law-school clinic submission and a working paper archived on SSRN for the legal disagreement; and one advocacy-mission monitoring report and one research-institute essay for the published contestation of method. The determinations issued by human-rights organizations and by a UN special procedure are cited for the arguments they state and are dated; each is that body’s own conclusion on its own definitions and documentation.
Four limits bear on the figures above. First, no census enumerates the Palestinian refugee population, so the widest element of the argument has no enumerated denominator; the PCBS 2017 census covers residents of the West Bank and Gaza only, and every later total in the international series is a projection off it. Second, the Central Bureau of Statistics counts East Jerusalem residents and West Bank settlers inside Israel’s totals while international monitors publish those populations separately, so figures produced under the two conventions are not interchangeable and must not be summed. The Bureau’s own Rosh Hashana 2025 release illustrates the trap: its published 78.5% and 21.5% are shares of 9.888 million, not of the 10.148 million total, because about 260,000 foreign residents sit in the total outside both named groups. Third, Becker, Ascone and Troschke coded keyword-selected comment samples within one 2021 escalation, so the category shares describe those samples. Fourth, Harber and colleagues’ findings are associations from survey and longitudinal data, not causal estimates, and the study by Al-Qudsi is carried at the level of the comparison the paper states, since the publisher gates its full text.
Conclusion
The word carries a history from one country’s statute book, and the question a reader arrives with is what exactly is being argued when it is applied to another. The answer is narrower and more technical than the summaries: a three-element test from Article 7(2)(h) of the Rome Statute, argued element by element, with the second and third elements doing the work.
Read across the whole record, the arguments hold together in a particular way. Four bodies adopted the characterization between January 2021 and March 2022 and then diverged on territory, so that Amnesty International’s February 2022 extension to refugees and Human Rights Watch’s April 2021 confinement to Israel and the occupied territories are different claims under one word. The definitional step that makes the test applicable at all comes from the 1965 racial-discrimination convention’s four grounds, and it is the step where the Harvard clinic’s 2022 submission and the SSRN-archived dissent part company, while the documented conduct is comparatively uncontested. The intent element rests on text the Knesset enacted in 2018 and Israel’s Supreme Court upheld on 8 July 2021 in the same judgment in which it held the Knesset “not all powerful.” And the evidence at the load-bearing points is Israel’s own: its statutes, its judgments, and a statistical bureau that has counted annexed East Jerusalem inside Israel’s totals since the 1968 yearbook.
What travels is something else. In the UK comments Becker, Ascone and Troschke coded from the May 2021 escalation, the apartheid analogy reached 5.2% of the comments judged antisemitic while an “evil” stereotype reached 39.8%, and Harber and colleagues found in 2026 that conspiracy beliefs implicating Israel and Zionists, not legal reasoning, mediated the association between antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes. A 280-page argument about treaty elements and a one-line comment about Jews are not the same object, and only the second has been measured alongside antisemitic content. So the question worth sitting with is what happens to a legal vocabulary in the distance between the report and the thread: when the elements fall away and only the word survives, is the surviving word one of the inputs that feeds what the surveys keep finding?
Frequently Asked Questions
Which treaties define apartheid as a crime?
Two. The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 30 November 1973 and entered into force on 18 July 1976. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted in 1998, lists apartheid among crimes against humanity at Article 7(1)(j) and defines it at Article 7(2)(h).
Does the 1973 Convention limit the term to southern Africa?
Its Article II states that the crime “shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa,” and then sets out the definition in general terms. Whether that clause restricts the crime’s reach or records its historical origin is a reading question the text does not resolve on its face.
Why do Israel’s published population percentages not sum against its total?
Because they use a different base. The Central Bureau of Statistics’ September 2025 release reports about 7.758 million Jews and Others and 2.130 million Arabs, whose 78.5% and 21.5% shares are of their 9.888 million combined base, while the total population is about 10.148 million; roughly 260,000 foreign residents sit inside the total and outside both groups.
When were the West Bank and Gaza last counted?
In 2017. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics counted 4,780,978 residents on the reference date of 1 December 2017, its third round after 1997 and 2007. East Jerusalem could not be directly enumerated, so administrative estimates were used there, and figures for years before 1997 have no census basis.
What does Israel’s founding text say about equality?
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, read on 14 May 1948, states that the state “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex.” The Knesset’s published English text reads “citizens” in that sentence; other widely used translations render the word as “inhabitants.”
How often does denial of Jewish self-determination appear in measured antisemitic content?
Jikeli and colleagues (2022), peer-reviewed, annotated 4,016 English-language tweets against the IHRA definition and found 11.2% of conversations containing “Jews” antisemitic between January 2019 and August 2020. Among the antisemitic “Jews” tweets, about 15% fit the self-determination denial paragraph and about 62% fit the paragraph on allegations of Jewish collective power.
Do surveys link conspiracy belief to antisemitism in the United Kingdom?
Allington, Hirsh and Katz (2023), peer-reviewed in Scientific Reports, surveyed 1,790 UK adults in December 2021 and found coronavirus conspiracy suspicion correlated positively with all measured forms of antisemitism, most strongly with attitudes toward Jews as Jews. Their exploratory analysis indicated the anti-Zionist link was accounted for by its overlap with that form.
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