User talk:Ryan Paddy/Delegitimisation

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• CAMERA: Extremists Seek to Delegitimize Israel During "Apartheid Week". This covers the "apartheid label is for delegitimisation" argument, although it doesn't go into any detailed reasoning. I wouldn't use CAMERA as a reliable source for facts (any more than I'd use Electronic Intifada), but it's fine for presenting a POV such as the one we're discussing.
• HonestReporting: Israel Apartheid Week Comes to Town. Similar to the CAMERA article. Some more detail on the reasoning behind the argument are given, with quotes from various sources (some of which may be suitable for citing).
• Daniel Seaman op-ed in the JP
• National Post editorial Note this is an archive, I can't find the editorial on the National Post website even though it's widely quoted in other articles.
• Martin Raffel op-ed in the JTA. Lists the apartheid label as one of many parts of an attempt to delegitimise.
• Leslie Susser in the JP.
• Eugene Korn (2007) Divestment from Israel, the Liberal Churches, and Jewish Responses: A Strategic Analysis Written with US churche politics in mind but clearly links the apartheid label, delegitimisation, and the one-state solution. Mentions Jimmy Carter's book as "propaganda" in this context.
• Hadar Sela (2010) ANTI-ZIONIST AND ANTISEMITIC DISCOURSE ON THE GUARDIAN’S “COMMENT IS FREE” WEBSITE Says that letters to the editor are often "openly anti-Zionist and not infrequently advocate a one-state “solution” to the conflict, employing sometimes slanderous language in order to delegitimize the State of Israel." then goes on to use the apartheid label as an example of such "slander".
• David Newman (2008) Britain and the Academic Boycott of Israel This one's borderline, I'm listing it just as a record of having checked it. It talks about the apartheid label being used as a reason for international isolation, then it talks about delegitimisation, but it doesn't explicitly connect the two.
• Gerald M. Steinberg (2003) MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs This article "explores how humanitarian NGOs that include Israel and the Middle East in their campaigns have played a major role in the ongoing ideological campaign to delegitimize Israel" and then goes on to list uses of the apartheid label by NGOs as examples of said delegitimisation.
• Shlomo Sharan (2007) OUR INNER SCOURGE: THE CATASTROPHE OF ISRAEL ACADEMICS About Israeli academics who are critical of it. Very long (rambling, even), I didn't have time to read closely enough to see if it equates the apartheid label with delegitimisation, but from what I saw I suspect it does - would need closer reading to be sure, and to extract the reasoning used. Interestingly, it provides a definition from Natan Sharansky of "delegitimization" as "denies Israel the fundamental right to exist" and says it's one of three aspects of antisemitism (the others being Demonisation and Double Standard).
• Robert S. Wistrich (2002) Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger Lists the apartheid label as one means used by "Muslims" to delegitimise Israel.
• Anne Bayefsky (2002) UN World Conference against Racism: A Racist Anti-Racism Conference, The You'll need academic access to view the whole article, but I can provide an overview. Argues that the UN conference was part of an anti-semitic campaign by "Palestinians and their supporters" to "demonize and delegitimize" Israel by accusing it of "crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid" while removing mention of anti-semitism from the conference's statement. Says that NGOs, "Arab states", and South Africa (the host country) helped in this agenda. Ryan Paddy (talk) 22:52, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

• "Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights," Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism; Working Paper No. 3, 2009
• Jean Kirkpatrick, "How the PLO was Legitimized", Commentary Magazine, July 1989. She shows in detail how all the same sorts of claims, and agendas, including the South African apartheid claims, were present back in the 1970s in the UN (actually the Soviets fiercely pushed such defamation in the 60s in the UN and world arena, and internally as far back as the 30s, as a permissible expression of raw antisemitism) in the course of which the leading global terrorist organization of that generation, the PLO, was enthusiastically legitimized by the UN General Assembly, while, under Soviet sponsorship, the support of the Arab block, the Islamic Conference, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the same GA pushed through the "Zionism is racism" resolution delegitimizing Zionism and Israel (later rescinded with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991). Her detailed analysis of the legal process is very revealing of ramifications and agendas. This has very contemporary relevance for the current fight world-wide against terrorism. As the treatment of the Jews goes today, so the treatment of others goes tomorrow. So this certainly belongs in a revised version of the proposed contribution.
• Sharansky Clarifies the distinction between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitic criticism.

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Irwin Cotler, a Canadian MP and anti-apartheid activist who was once a lawyer for Nelson Mandela said "The second manifestation [of anti-semitism] is the indictment of Israel as an apartheid state [involving] more than the simple indictment of Israel as an apartheid state. It involves a call for dismantling Israel" He links this to other forms of delegitimization of the Jewish state by Palestinians, such as their attempt to deny any Jewish historical or religious links to the Holy Land as such, and especially to Jerusalem itself.

Benny Morris, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict, has said that those that promote the equation of Israeli efforts to separate the two populations to apartheid are effectively trying to undermine the legitimacy of any peace agreement based on a two-state solution.

Some critics of the apartheid analogy have considered "delegitimization" to be the key intention behind the apartheid accusations against Israel.