May 2008: The updated fifth edition, of Anthony Löwstedt's "Apartheid - Ancient, Past, and Present" can be downloaded here.
Israel was accused of apartheid by John Dugard, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Special Envoy to the Occupied Palestinian Territories in February this year. In a report to the Council, Dugard recommended bringing the charge of apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law, against Israel to the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Previously, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and the former South African Anglican Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, had also raised accusations of apartheid against Israel. T his study shows that no less than 97.8 percent of gross human rights violations so far committed in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are sole responsibilities of the Israeli Jews and their allies and supporters, and 2.2 percent, at the most, are Palestinian crimes. Similar structures and percentages are applied by the author to other apartheid societies, such as South Africa, Guatemala and late Ancient Egypt. The fourth edition contains updates, improvements, and appraisals of new literature on the subject by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Carter, Tutu, and Amos Oz, among others.
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