Seminar K

Using International Law to Analyze Racism, Apartheid, Zionism and Anti-Semitism

23 June 2026

Course Description

This seminar clarifies some important and related concepts of racism, apartheid, zionism and anti-semitism. By analyzing treaties, UN General Assembly resolutions, proceedings and decisions of the International Court of Justice, and other sources of international law, the faculty offer a path for human rights activists to understand these ideologies which are presently highly contested, particularly in the US and Europe.

Faculty

Chief Charles Taku

Zionism in Africa; preamble to Banjul Charter

Lennox Hinds

Successful IADL campaign to get apartheid classified as Crime Against Humanity under international law

Emmaia Gelman

Founding director of Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism; co-host of podcast "Unpacking Zionism"

Carolyn Karcher

Professor emerita at Temple University; editor and author of “Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism"

Marjorie Cohn

Moderator, Dean of the People's Academy of International Law

Supplemental Materials

Racism, Zionism, antisemitism

Erakat, Noura and Li, Darryl and Reynolds, John, Race, Palestine, and International Law (March 30, 2023). AJIL Unbound, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 77-81, 2023.

Judaism, Zionism, and Antisemitism: Definitions and Distinctions

Zionism in the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights

1975—Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination: Zionism as racism

1991—Elimination of racism and racial discrimination, revoking Resolution 3379

Crime of Apartheid

The Gross Violations of Human Rights of the Apartheid Regime Under International Law, submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) on behalf of the IADL by Professor Lennox Hinds

Hinds, Lennox S. “Apartheid in South Africa and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Crime and Social Justice, no. 24, 1985, pp. 5–43. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29766267. 

Apartheid in South Africa and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, prepared for the International Seminar on the Legal Status of the Apartheid Regime in South Africa and Other Legal Aspects of the Struggle Against Apartheid in Lagos, Nigeria by Professor Lennox S. Hinds

1973—Situation in South Africa resulting from the policies of apartheid, Part G condemning the “unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, zionism and Israeli imperialism”

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