Editing Israeli–Palestinian conflict (section)

=== Apartheid ===
{{Main|Israeli apartheid}}

In July 2024, the [[International Court of Justice]] determined that Israeli policies violate the [[International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination]].<ref name=Haaretz>Aeyal Gross, [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-19/ty-article/.premium/the-icj-just-demolished-one-of-israels-key-defenses-of-the-occupation/00000190-cc54-dcff-afd4-cfdc29ee0000 'The ICJ Just Demolished One of Israel's Key Defenses of the Occupation,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720065012/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-19/ty-article/.premium/the-icj-just-demolished-one-of-israels-key-defenses-of-the-occupation/00000190-cc54-dcff-afd4-cfdc29ee0000 |date=20 July 2024 }} [[Haaretz]] 19 July 2024.</ref> As of 2022, all the major Israeli and international human rights organizations were in agreement that Israeli actions constituted the [[crime of apartheid]].<ref>Human Rights Watch, "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution," 27 April 2021, hrw.org; Amnesty International, "Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity," 1 February 2022, amnesty.org; Michael Sfard, The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and the Crime of Apartheid: Legal Opinion (Yesh Din, June 2022), yesh-din.org; B'Tselem, "A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This Is Apartheid," position paper, 12 January 2021, btselem.org</ref> In April 2021, [[Human Rights Watch]] released its report ''A Threshold Crossed'', describing the [[Israeli apartheid|policies of Israel towards Palestinians]] living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza constituted the [[crime of apartheid]].<ref name="Holmes">{{Cite news |last=Holmes |first=Oliver |date=27 April 2021 |title=Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, rights group says |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/israel-committing-crime-apartheid-human-rights-watch |access-date= |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en |archive-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202210105/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/israel-committing-crime-apartheid-human-rights-watch |url-status=live}}</ref> A further report titled ''Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity'' was released by [[Amnesty International]] on 1 February 2022.<ref>{{cite report |title=Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MDE1551412022ENGLISH.pdf |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |date=January 2022 |access-date=8 December 2022 |archive-date=1 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201215719/https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MDE1551412022ENGLISH.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2018, the [[Knesset]] passed the [[Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People|Nation-State law]] which the Israeli legal group [[Adalah (legal center)|Adalah]] nicknamed the "Apartheid law." Adalah described the Nation-State law as "constitutionally enshrining Jewish supremacy and the identity of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people." The Nation-State law is a [[Basic Laws of Israel|Basic Law]], meaning that it has "quasi-constitutional status,"<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 September 2023 |title=Defending the rule of law, enforcing apartheid – the double life of Israel's judiciary |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/defending-the-rule-of-law-enforcing-apartheid-the-double-life-of-israels-judiciary/ |access-date=12 September 2024 |website=Amnesty International |language=en |archive-date=12 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912084832/https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/defending-the-rule-of-law-enforcing-apartheid-the-double-life-of-israels-judiciary/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and states that the right to exercise national self-determination in Israel is "unique to the Jewish people".<ref>{{cite book|first=Avi|last=Shlaim|title=Three Worlds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XTWUEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA|year=2023|publisher=Oneworld Publications |isbn=978-0-86154-464-6}}</ref>