מאמרה של פרופ' יפה זילברשץ, "Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Reply to John Dugard and John Reynolds", בתגובה למאמרם המאשים את ישראל במדיניות אפרטהייד כלפי הפלשתינים.
המאמרים עתידים להתפרסם שניהם בחוברת מס' 3 של European Journal of International Law.
להלן תקציר המאמר:
I accept the authors’ premise in their article entitled ‘Apartheid,
International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ that apartheid,
as practiced in the former South African regime, remains today a crime against
the law of nations applicable to states practicing a similar regime. The
obligation of a state and its officials to refrain from practicing any policy of
apartheid is considered a jus cogens norm under international law. Whoever practices
apartheid bears international criminal responsibility and may be put on trial
for committing that crime, either in any state in the world based on universal
jurisdiction or before the International Criminal Court. However, the very
gravity of the crime requires that accusations of apartheid be made with the
greatest caution. The accusation that Israel practices apartheid against the
Palestinian population in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza is unfounded
and based on gross errors.
In this article I expand on two of these errors – the failure to
differentiate between the norms governing occupied and sovereign territory, and
the authors’ complete failure to address Israel’s policies in the context of an
armed conflict characterized by the Palestinians’ use of terror. As I show,
once the authors’ errors are exposed and considered, it is clear that Israel’s
actions cannot be considered a basis for the crime of apartheid.
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