Mobilisation of the apartheid framework in Palestine: From grassroots organising and human rights advocacy to the pursuit of international accountability
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https://hdl.handle.net/10379/18553
https://doi.org/10.13025/29347
https://doi.org/10.13025/29347
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2025-02-05
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doctoral thesis
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Tracing its international law prohibition and mobilisation on the ground, this dissertation interrogates the origins, evolution, contributions, and critiques of the apartheid framework as mobilised by grassroots organisers and human rights organisations in the movement for freedom, justice, and equality in Palestine. Chapter 1 discusses apartheid and international law, highlighting the tools international law provides for the suppression and punishment of apartheid, arising as a result of the anti-apartheid and decolonisation struggles. Chapter 2 turns to the origins of the apartheid discourse in Palestine, rooting it in Palestinians’ articulations of their lived reality since the start of the Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948. Drawing on the findings of semi-structured interviews conducted during fieldwork in 2023, Chapters 3 and 4 trace the evolution of anti-apartheid mobilisation by grassroots organisers and human rights organisations on the ground in Palestine. What emerges is a rich discourse among practitioners and organisers on the nature of the Israeli regime and its root causes following over a century of Zionist settler colonialism as well as the limits of human rights work in this context. Chapter 4 also explores the opportunities and limitations of the apartheid framework and its potential for advancing international justice and accountability for the Palestinian people.
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University of Galway
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International