How to end Israeli apartheid

JVL Introduction

Many people have a ready answer to the Israel/Palestine issue, whether a one-state, a two-state, a federal or a confederal arrangement.

All falter as to how they are to be achieved.

As, Omer-Man and Sarah Leah Whitson write in a new book, From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine: “even if Israel faces international prosecutions, isolation, and crippling sanctions, the international community is still unable to articulate any positive policy demands or a vision for a just peace and rights-respecting governance” to replace “the zombie two-state process”.

Instead, in what Omar M. Dajani calls “a provocation that’s long overdue”, they propose a road map to replace the one-state, permanent Israeli occupation, apartheid status quo that preceded October 7th.

In so doing, they draw on the experience of other transitions: South Africa, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and East Timor.

Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya, writes approvingly: “There is no dearth of literature making the case for a democratic one-state solution. The authors of this book distinguish themselves by offering a practical and detailed blueprint to achieve it”.

Here Jonathan Adler interviews the authors and teases out their ideas.

RK

This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Wed 5 Nov 2025. Read the original here.