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0 pointsscotty798mo ago0 comments

How can it be apartheid state with 1/5th of its population being non-Jewish and having strong anti-discrimination laws? They don't count people living in Gaza and West-Bank who want and/or try to kill them as their own and why would they? What "being apartheid state" even means?

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0xbadcafebee8mo ago

  Israeli apartheid is a system of institutionalized segregation and discrimination
  in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and to a lesser extent in Israel proper.[a]
  ("Israel proper" refers to the borders of Israel as recognized by the majority of the international community,
   which excludes East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip.)
  
  This system is characterized by near-total physical separation between
  the Palestinian and the Israeli settler population of the West Bank,
  as well as the judicial separation that governs both communities,
  which discriminates against the Palestinians in a wide range of ways.
  
  Israel also discriminates against Palestinian refugees in the diaspora
  and against its own Palestinian citizens.[2][3][4][5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_apartheid

scotty79OP8mo ago

I see. So people who call it apartheid basically believe that places like Gaza are parts of Israel despite Israel having no administrative power there nor effective police presence.

Let's skip those places for a moment. What are the signs of apartheid in Israel proper? I don't have access to the sources listed. Just one or two things off the top of your head would be a lot for me.

achierius8mo ago

No, because of the West Bank, where Israel DOES have control.

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breppp8mo ago

if it can be an occupation with no troops on the ground, a genocide with no meaningful way to destroy a people, colonialism by the original inhabitants and not motivated by capitalism, it surely could be apartheid without racism and with equal rights

words have no meaning, only emotion

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