The global attention and praise received by these NGOs highlight the racist double standards of the international community, which deems research by Western and Israeli historians and organizations into Israel’s crimes of apartheid as legitimate, while “the hundreds of Palestinians that have contributed an endless body of analysis and literature on the topic in question in the past are ignored”194 and are subject to threats, punishment, and ridicule. Regardless, these four reports are extensive and detailed, and the widespread attention they received is undoubtedly helpful in raising international awareness on the struggle of the Palestinian people. The apartheid framework employed in the NGOs’ reports offers a welcome development from the prevalent occupation paradigm that restricts the crimes of Israel to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and is built on the assumption of temporariness. Instead, the apartheid framework allows for a recognition of the Palestinian people’s suffering at the hands of Israel as a whole throughout the entirety of Mandatory Palestine and in exile. The apartheid paradigm on its own, however, is insufficient, as Israeli apartheid is simply “one form of domination within a settler colonial project”.195 To restrict discussions of apartheid to a liberal analysis of inequality would strip the Palestinian struggle of its anti189 Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (PLO Research Center 1965), 23 <http://www.freedomarchives.org/ Documents/Finder/DOC12_scans/12.zionist.colonialism.palestine.1965.pdf>; For another example of earlier calls to recognize Israel’s system of apartheid, see Elias T. Zureik, The Palestinians in Israel: a study in internal colonialism (Routledge & K. Paul 1979) <https://archive.org/details/palestiniansinis0000zure/mode/2up?q=apartheid> accessed 3 October 2022. 190 Michael Sfard, ‘The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and the Crime of Apartheid: Legal Opinion’ (Yesh Din, June 2020) <https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.yesh-din.org/Apartheid+2020/Apartheid+ENG.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 191 B’Tselem, ‘A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid’ (B’Tselem, January 2021) <https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202101_this_is_apartheid_eng.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 192 Human Rights Watch, A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution (Human Rights Watch 2021) <https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2021/04/israel_palestine0421_web_0.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 193 Amnesty International, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity (Amnesty International 2022) <https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/5141/2022/en/> accessed 3 October 2022. 194 Dalya Al Masri, ‘Amnesty’s Israeli Apartheid Report Won’t Help Palestinians’ (Passage, 7 February 2022) <https:// readpassage.com/amnestys-israeli-apartheid-report-wont-help-palestinians/> accessed 3 October 2022. 195 Nihal El Aasar, ‘Why Won’t Amnesty Say “Colonialism”?’ (Novara Media, 8 February 2022) <https://novaramedia. com/2022/02/08/why-wont-amnesty-say-colonialism/> accessed 3 October 2022. 37 1 Chapter and the apartheid South African government and emphasized how Zionism demands “racial exclusiveness […] [and] necessarily rejects the coexistence of Jews and non-Jews in the land of Jewish regrouping”.189 After decades of perseverance and work put in by Palestinians on advocacy around this issue, Western and Israeli NGOs began to finally catch up. In June 2020, Israeli NGO Yesh Din published a legal opinion on Israel’s apartheid policies in the West Bank.190 Israeli NGO B’Tselem followed suit in January 2021 with a report concluding that Israel is an apartheid state, detailing Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy not just in the West Bank, but in all of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.191 In April 2021, Human Rights Watch published a report detailing Israel’s crimes of apartheid and persecution in all of Palestine,192 with Amnesty International publishing a similar report in January 2022.193