“ Israel is an Apartheid state” accusation

Acknowledgments to Jock L. Falkson http://www.masada2000.org/Apartheid-State.html

The apartheid lie attached to Israel is one of several concocted by Palestinians to publicize their cause. A Google search credits Mahmoud Abbas with approximately 19,000 apartheid references

This is a preposterous accusation for the reasons we will demonstrate. It a wicked lie that seeks to enlist world hostility and sanctions against Israel on the grounds of baseless comparisons with the Apartheid regime that once existed in South Africa, and which the world agreed was evil and unjustifiable.

 

Apartheid in South Africa was a state organised discrimination between European and non-european citizens of the nation. The discrimination was given a religious justification and valued non-european citizens as having less worth. The degradation of non-whites extended to all aspects of life – even down to benches in public places bearing signs prohibiting non-whites from using them. We will show that none of this applies in Israel.

 

South Africa in the Apartheid era	Israel
The population of South A frica was divided into Whites, Blacks and Coloreds [mixed race]	Israel’s population includes – Arabs, Circassian, Druze, Kurds, Armenians, Beduin as well as Jewish citizens, enjoy equal rights.
Non Whites	All citizens of Israel
did not have the vote	equal voting rights. (Eleven Arabs sit in Israel’s Knesset.)
had to carry a “Pass Book”. infringements led to jail sentences and often to deportation to the black homelands.	All citizens and legal residents of Israel carry an identity card as required by law.
kept from a wide range of jobs.	No discrimination of this kind
No free education for blacks (for whites till matriculation.)	No racial distinctions whatever.
Black-white sex was a serious jail time crime.	No Legal sex apartheid in Israel.
Medical services were both restricted and segregated.	Arab citizens benefit equally from government subsidized medical services.
Hospitals services segregated Ambulances segregated.	Israeli Arabs get the full treatment in all State hospitals.
could not be employed in any of the skilled trades	Arabs can do everything in Israel
“may not use the libraries, cinemas, public transport, public conveniences, post offices public swimming pools and beaches. . ..”	Arabs can do everything in Israel
9 p.m. curfew or face arrest, jail sentences and deportation.	Absolutely unheard of in democratic Israel.
No mixed sport– by law.	No such law ever in Israel.
Benches were painted with “Europeans Only” signs.	An unimaginable insult in democratic Israel.
not permitted to use the main entrance to buildings.	An unimaginable insult in democratic Israel.
given half the pension	pensions and child allowances allocated equally to all citizens
. forbidden membership in trade unions Strikes were banned and strikers severely repressed.	Equal employment rights to all citizens

These pictures are from Apartheid era South Africa

You will not find anything like these in Israel.

 

The most often repeated and deliberate misuse of the apartheid calumny is the use of “apartheid wall/fence” The one thing people overlook is that Apartheid is discrimination against citizens within the nation – not measures taken to protect citizens from attack from non-citizens bent on killing and maiming.

Unlike the twenty-two Judenrein Arab countries of the Middle East, Israel is the only one which neither believes in nor practices apartheid.

The "Apartheid" posters at the top of the page demonstrate a clever use of words and imagery, but complete rejection of facts. The allegations of killing Palestinians and indiscriminate violence against children in Gaza have no connection with Apartheid. They are just using an emotive word to engender hatred and make Israel a pariah state as apartheid South Africa was.

See also Durban 1 and Durban 2 for information on this forum for propagating the apartheid argument.

See also Holocaust Denial - Holocaust Theft for other stolen issues used against Israel.

Created 17/06/09

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