{"id":1267,"date":"2014-03-02T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:51:20","slug":"israel-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/israel-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israel ‘Apartheid’ Libel"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Esther Korson<\/p>\n

There are attempts to de-legitimize Israel on many fronts. The problem is that when lies are told often enough by supposedly authoritative organizations, they are eventually accepted as facts. The Arab press is expert at anti-Israel rhetoric on a daily basis. But other things are happening as well.<\/p>\n

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On the 26th of February, the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Palestinian-based global campaign against Israel) sponsored an Israel Apartheid Week on 200 university and college campuses worldwide, claiming that the Arab population in Israel is treated like the blacks were treated in apartheid South Africa. Pro-Israel students are trying to fight back by disseminating information that debunks the comparison between apartheid South Africa and the situation in Israel. One of the most effective tools was a video clip from a South African member of parliament, Kenneth Meshoe, who has lived under apartheid and believes that any such equation of Israel with South Africa under apartheid is absurd. I love it when individuals are willing to stand up and really make a difference!<\/p>\n

I love what he had to say. \u201cAs a South African who was born under apartheid, I know what apartheid is. I\u2019ve experienced it. My parents experienced it. But having been to Israel on a number of occasions, I know that nothing is happening in that country that I have either seen or read that can be at all compared to apartheid in South Africa. For example, when I had to see a white doctor who was prepared to have black patients, I would have to go to a back room where black patients of white doctors went who were never allowed to enter through the same door that was used by white people. Now compare that to Israel. A few years ago a black pastor friend of mine went to Israel where he had an accident and had to be hospitalized. When he came back to South Africa, he said to as many people as he could that the people who are talking about apartheid in Israel are talking nonsense. \u201cWhen I was in that hospital in Israel,\u201d he tells people, \u201con my right was sleeping a Jew and on my left was a \u2018Palestinian\u2019 Moslem and in between that Jew and that Moslem was this black South African\u201d. In private the \u2018Palestinians\u2019 he was with in the hospital said to him, \u201cThe Israel-is-an-apartheid-state thing\u2019 is what politicians are saying. It is not what we as Palestinian Arabs are experiencing on the ground!\u201d<\/p>\n

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