User talk:Ryan Paddy/International law

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Jamjoum, Hazeem (5 April 2009). "Not an Analogy: Israel and the Crime of Apartheid".

  • Source: Hazem Jamjoum is communications officer for Badil, a Palestinian rights NPO, and editor of their magazine.
  • Quote: "In terms of law, describing Israel as an apartheid state does not revolve around levels of difference and similarity with the policies and practices of the South African Apartheid regime, and where Israel is an apartheid state only insofar as similarities outweigh differences. ... The fact that apartheid is defined as a crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 5, which entered into force in 2002 - long after the Apartheid regime was defeated in South Africa - attests to the universality of the crime."

Kilibarda, Kole (31 March 2005). "A Campaign to Challenge Israeli Apartheid Palestinian Campaign".

  • Source: Kole Kilibarda is an organiser of Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
  • Quotes the Convention as saying "for the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of apartheid", which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to the following 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"

Kolliah, Zahir (25 February 2007). "The South African Connection".

  • Source:Zahir Kolliah appears to be a writer for the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
  • Quotes the Convention, as above source.
  • "In South Africa and in Palestine the indigenous populations live under apartheid regimes 'settler colonies' as described by the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid"

Caradima, Bogdan (2010). "Not an analogy: Israel and the crime of apartheid"

  • Actually titled "Not an Analogy – Israel & Apartheid" and available at http://sfpr.uwaterloo.ca/?p=891
  • Source: Bogdan Caradima is a student, so this is probably not an RS. Looks like the Jamjoum source is what was intended to be cited.

Declarations and Conventions Contained in GA Resolutions, 1970–1979, International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (30 November 1973), A/RES/3068 (XXVIII), preamble, Article II, and Article III

  • Source: the UN Convention, a primary source

John Dugard, UN Treaty Organization Media Article on the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

  • Source: John Dugard, Professor of International Law, University of Leiden
  • Note: there are various Dugard sources in the article, and they seem to be getting confused with each other
  • Quote from link: "That the Apartheid Convention is intended to apply to situations other than South Africa is confirmed by its endorsement in a wider context in instruments adopted before and after the fall of apartheid."

Dinah L. Shelton, ed. (2006), "Apartheid", Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

  • Source: eNotes?
  • Note: does state that apartheid is covered by the various international conventions, but doesn't seem to explicitly state that it's independent of apartheid in South Africa.

Middle East Project of the Democracy and Governance Programme, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (2009), Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law

  • Source: seems like a reputable South African body
  • Quote: "... practices in South Africa are not the test or benchmark for a finding of apartheid elsewhere, as the principal instrument which provides this test lies in the terms of the Apartheid Convention itself."

Audiovisual Library of International Law entry for The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

  • This appears to be the same Dugard source as above

"UN CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE SLAMS 'ISRAELI APARTHEID': Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign"

  • Source: Worldwide Activism? Presumably an activist group
  • Quotes Phyllis Bennis, Co-Chair of the International Coordinating Network on Palestine
  • Probably a reliable source for her opinion
  • Quotes Bennis as saying "Chief among these laws and resolutions must be the implementation of those that called for an end to Israeli occupation and the realization of all human rights – civil and political, economic and social – of the Palestinian people. Once again, the crime of apartheid was being committed by a United Nations Member State."

Ronald Bruce St John (February 1, 2007). "Apartheid By Any Other Name".

  • Link broken, can be retrieved here: http://www.counterpunch.org/stjohn02022007.html
  • Source: Scholar and author
  • Does quote Convention
  • Quote: "In 1973, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid."
  • Quote: "Based on this definition, Israeli policy in the West Bank cannot technically be defined as apartheid because it lacks the racial component."
  • Quote: "When the emphasis shifts to an identifiable national, ethnic or cultural group, as opposed to a racial group, Israeli policy in the West Bank clearly constitutes a form of apartheid with an effect on the Palestinian people much the same as apartheid had on the non-White population in South Africa."
  • Could be used to discuss pros and cons of accusation
  • Quote: "Israeli policy in the West Bank is a form of apartheid in intent and implementation. Ethnic-based, as opposed to race-based, it shares an important characteristic with the South African model. Both have their genesis in the desire by the minority to control land occupied by the majority. To achieve this result, the Israelis have imposed a legal framework on the Palestinians in the West Bank that ensures perpetual economic, political, and social dominance."

United Nations (2002). "Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Part 2, Article 7".

  • Another primary source