Israel’s High Court exposes Israeli apartheid regime

The following is a Jan. 12  press release from the Badil Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights on an Israeli High Court decision the previous day upholding one of the most blatant examples of Israel’s racist apartheid system. The High Court is the equivalent of the Supreme Court in the U.S. system.

On 11th January 2012, Israel’s High Court rejected a legal challenge, brought by Adalah, ACRI and other Israeli human rights organizations, to one of the most obvious pieces of Israeli apartheid legislation: the 2003 Temporary Amendment to the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law suspends the possibility of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jerusalem ID-holders gaining permission, through family reunification, to legally live in Israel or occupied East Jerusalem with their spouses from the occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) or from purported “enemy states.” This decision confirms the Court’s earlier ruling on the issue, in May 2006, and entrenches this discriminatory law within the apartheid legislation of Israel, whose public institutions uphold the regime.

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