It goes without saying that one of the leading obstacles to any peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is Tel Aviv’s policy of political, legal, and cultural discrimination towards the Palestinians. Israel can’t deny, it is an apartheid state that is bluntly violating the fundamentals of HR norms protected in the UN’s Charter. There is an irrefutable evidence that suggests the system orchestrated, incorporated, and practiced by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people correctly meets the UN definition of Apartheid. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have applied an implied claim of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism –thereby announcing that the Zionist State belongs to the Jewish people alone-meaning thereby that the 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis are not equal citizens, but anyone– daring to call Israel an apartheid state or a racist entity– is open to accusations of anti-Semitism. Historically examining, the narrative of ‘Israeli apartheid’ got its prolificacy in the aftermath of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000. Here one might remember the popular references to apartheid began to infiltrate mainstream media circles and bestseller lists while many leading South Africans leaders spoke and wrote about the painful memories of apartheid that were periodically and systematically resurrected upon visiting the West Bank and Gaza Strip, thereby adding weight to the apartheid analogy. In effect, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) constitute one territorial unit under full Israeli control. Since 2016, of the total population of people that live in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, around 6.45 million are the Jewish Israelis and about 6.41 million are Palestinians. Israel’s restrictions on freedom of movement in the occupied Palestinian territory are out and out reminiscent of South African hated pass laws- unjustifiably criminalizing black South Africans without a permit or pass to be in a white city. Similarly, Israel’s policy of ‘forcible population removals and destruction of the Palestinian homes’ resembles the relocation of black people from areas zoned for exclusive white occupation in apartheid Africa. Undeniably, with the collapse of the apartheid system in South Africa came the suspension of the UN treaty-monitoring body for the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, the ‘Group of Three’, as well as the dissolution of the Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid. For keeping the record right, we must also note that a number of Israeli academics, journalists and newspaper editors, and even former municipal representatives and government ministers have been criticising their own government’s deportment towards the Palestinians as analogous to state-sponsored apartheid policies . Judiciously viewed, colonialism violated the principle of self-determination, one of the essential principles of contemporary international law endorsed by The Hague- based International Court of Justice (ICJ). Israel policy of an endless occupation– backed by its religious, cultural, and legal segregation based on chronic discrimination towards Palestinians-is lethal to any future peace deal between Israelis and the Palestinians. As long as this evil Israeli discourse remains to continue, no peace deal could ever be expected to conclude In 2009, an international team of legal scholars working under the auspices of the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town, South Africa published a study called Occupation, Colonialism, and apartheid? The study fairly concluded that the Israeli state has imposed a state of apartheid on the Palestinian people, in that Israel is guilty of many of the cies are honeycombed with such blatant practices of institutionalising this prevailing system of racial discrimination and domination. These apartheid -stricken state laws are meant to isolate the Israelis and the Palestinians from any possible social osmosis via strong ethno religious ethos and cultural ghettos clearly widening the narrative between the Jewish ‘us’ and the Palestinian ‘them’. Israel’s critics have repeatedly denounced Israeli state policy of segregation establishing separate legal regimes for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians living in the same area-manifested by the fact that Jewish Israeli settlers living in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are governed by Israeli civil law, while Palestinians also living in the occupied West Bank are governed by Israeli military law. Importantly, Israel’s Gaza blockade is illegal under both the international humanitarian and international human rights laws. practices and policies of Apartheid identified in the Apartheid Convention adopted by the United Nations in 1973, and that these acts together constitute the “integrated and complementary elements of an institutionalised and oppressive system of Israeli domination and oppression over Palestinians as a group; that is, a system of apartheid.” And yet, some experts justifiably believe that Israel’s certain laws– do explicitly or implicitly discriminate on the basis of creed or race, in effect privileging Jewish citizens while disadvantaging non-Jewish, and particularly Arab, citizens of the state– including the Law of Return, the Ban on Family Unification; and many laws in terms of security, land and planning, citizenship, and political representation in the Knesset. Whilst the Nation-State Bill, which justifiably faced a global condemnation, has also been compared by members of PLO, opposition MPs, and other Arab and Jewish Israelis, to an apartheid law. Clearly, under Israeli law, and in practice, Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are selectively treated differently in almost every aspect of life including freedom of movement, family, housing, education, employment and other basic human rights. Dozens of Israeli laws and poliReuven Rivlin, the currently sitting President of Israel, was quoted in the Israeli press on 12 February 2017 saying that Israel’s newly passed ‘Regularisation Law’, which formally expropriates several tracts of Palestinian land, “will cause Israel to be seen as an apartheid state. From the perspective of normative expectations derived from international humanitarian law, objectively assessed, the Palestinians are victims of multiple cases of abuse associated with the prolonged Israeli occupation and harsh security tactics that defy the rules of conduct contained in the Geneva Conventions. Unjustifiably, for the fiercest supporters of occupation, any remark resisting the Israel cause or motive, even peaceful, is unbearable as has been evidenced from the current statement on holocaust by the US Congress Representative Rashida Tlaib, preposterously been criticised of anti-Semitism. In fact, Tlaib was candidly attempting to offer an olive branch through history on the eve of the 71st commemoration of the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine since space was created for Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. Israel policy of an endless occupation– backed by its religious, cultural, and legal segregation based on chronic discrimination towards Palestinians-is lethal to any future peace deal between Israelis and the Palestinians. As long as this evil Israeli discourse remains to continue, no peace deal could ever be expected to conclude.Therefore, if Tel Aviv is serious about any peace deal, it must abandon its sinister discriminatory policies in order to build the fraying confidence of the Palestinian community whose future and the future of the Palestinian posterity seems totally deserted under an oppressive Israeli yoke. Concluded The writer is an independent ‘IR’ researcher and international law analyst based in Pakistan