This is by design. Israel and spent years associating the _state_ of Israel with Judaism.
That way you can’t criticize Israel without being labeled and anti-Jewish semite. Nothing he posted was offensive. Israel is an apartheid state
That way you can’t criticize Israel without being labeled and anti-Jewish semite. Nothing he posted was offensive. Israel is an apartheid state
> “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself”
How about that?
Definition of apartheid: "a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population"
Arabs and Jews are both white but I am guess that in your analogy you are referring to segregation of those groups, correct me if I misinterpreted your specific version of propaganda.
In apartheid South Africa, whites and blacks didn't live in the same areas and blacks couldn't vote.
Taking a look at the countries around Israel, in Egypt there used to be 100,000 Jews, they were mostly forced out by president Nasser, there are less than 20 left today.
There are no Jews in Saudi Arabia. During the Gulf War when US military forces were stationed there, the Saudis allowed Christian worship services but prohibited Jewish worship services for the military personnel, Jews had to hold services in ships offshore.
There are no Jews in Jordan. There are less than 20 Jews in Syria. There are around 100 Jews in Lebanon.
There are 1,900,000 Arabs in Israel, that is around 20% of the population. They have full voting rights, around 16% of the parliament in Israel are Arabs. They enjoy full civil rights.
Describing Israel as an apartheid state is anti-Jewish, and it is ridiculous.
I find this a very curious definition. Why should the skin color of the oppressed population matter? Googling it returns this dictionary entry[1]:
> (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population.
> any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc.
So the definition you quoted only applies in the context of South Africa, in general apartheid refers to any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc..
The word apartheid is an Afrikaans word (Afrikaans is a Germanic language spoken in South Africa) that was used as an election slogan by a South African political party that implemented complete segregation and racial classification in South Africa in the 1950s.
If you are not making a specific comparison to the former racial policies of South Africa, there are better words to use.
Although I know over time, meanings change, so that words like anti-Semitic, racist, fascist, etc. all just become synonyms for "bad" or "things I don't like".
It’s easy to spot people who know less than nothing about the situation when this word shows up. Israel is literally not an apartheid state. “Palestine” is literally an apartheid state. This is a demonstration of supreme ignorance.