HRW said the report was intended to compare Israeli law and government policy against legal standards governing the crimes of apartheid and persecution. The release of the report comes three months after a similar publication by Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, which also accused Israel of becoming an “apartheid regime” arguing that the traditional view of Israel as a democracy living side-by-side with a temporary Israeli occupation in the territories “imposed on some five million Palestinian subjects … has grown divorced from reality.”
Infographic from HRW, comparing the legal status of an Israeli and a Palestinian.
