Racism is simply another form of stupidity. In South Africa many people died fighting apartheid & here they're trying to introduce it.
Then you have the racists who simply cannot other people alone with their constant bleating of racism. How can we ever have peace when the racists don't let up ? The racists need to ask themselves if their feigning victim is really worth it. But then again, anything to amuse a sick mind. Ain't that right do-gooders ?

The term apartheid does not refer only to the policy of racial segregation practised in South Africa. In international law, the crime of apartheid includes “similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa”, Note the word “similar” not “identical”.

Israeli apartheid differs from the apartheid once practiced in South Africa just as democracy in Australia is not identical to American democracy. However when one continues reading the International convention on the Crime of Apartheid, and in particular, Article 2, the relevance to Israel becomes very clear.

I have just returned from a visit to Israel and the difference in the living conditions of Jewish Israelis and the Palestinian citizens of Israel could not have been more stark.

I visited the village of Al Arakib in the Negev, which has been demolished countless times in an attempt to force the traditional owners off their land (see the SBS programme “Israel’s Mabo” http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601031/n/Israel-s-Mabo .

We saw the contrast between an unrecognised village inhabited by Palestinian citizens of Israel, forbidden to access the electricity grid or town water, with their roads unpaved and without a school for their children. Across the road, and only a few hundred metres away was a modern village built for Jewish citizens of the same country. As he poured water from a jerry-can to make tea for us guests, our host remarked: “Welcome to 21st century Israel.

Professor Dally's article is measured and constructive. Not so the tone of the negative comments posted. If anything destroys the state of Israel, it will be the extremism of her leaders and supporters who want not peace but an impossible final solution to the Palestinian presence on Palestinian land. dafydd

In 2009, The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) released a study confirming Israel policies conform to those of apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

The practices exhibit the three 'pillars' of apartheid. The first being laws and policies that establish Jewish identity for purposes of law and afford a preferential status and benefits to Jews over non-Jews. The second is the policy fragment the Palestinian territory ensure that Palestinians remain confined to the reserves designated for them while Israeli Jews enjoy freedom of movement. The third is Israel's invocation of 'security' to validate sweeping restrictions on Palestinian freedoms.

In reality, two people live on the land and only one government controls the lives of everyone that lives on it, and that is the Israeli government.

Regrettably, comments supporting Israel often resort religious and biblical narratives, instead of addressing Israel's confronting realities and professor Dally's balanced perspective.

Abbas,

<<The practices exhibit the three 'pillars' of apartheid. The first being laws and policies that establish Jewish identity for purposes of law and afford a preferential status and benefits to Jews over non-Jews. The second is the policy fragment the Palestinian territory ensure that Palestinians remain confined to the reserves designated for them while Israeli Jews enjoy freedom of movement. The third is Israel's invocation of 'security' to validate sweeping restrictions on Palestinian freedoms.>>

Maybe. And if you removed the word "Jews" and inserted in its place "Muslims". You would accurately describe most majority Muslim societies west of Pakistan.

Funny you didn't pick-up on that,ay?

International law defines the crime of apartheid as crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime."

It specifies several acts of apartheid including "murder of members of a racial group", "infringement of their freedom or dignity", "subjecting them to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and "denying to members of a racial group or groups basic human rights and freedoms, including the right to work... the right to education, the right to leave and to return to their country, the right to a nationality, the right to freedom of movement and residence".

This is an exact description of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians living under occupation. Instead of abusing Professor Dally for his commentary, Israel's apologists should consider its substance.