A tempest in a small teapot this week, as Human Rights Watch accused Israel of ‘apartheid’. That echoed the judgement of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which said in January that the current Israeli government is an ‘apartheid regime’. But the caravans are moving in opposite directions: South Africa towards democracy, Israel away from it. Was it extreme right-wing politics that drove Israel to its current dilemma, condemned to perpetual subjugation of its Arab population under the leadership of a political thug like Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu? Both groups achieved their goals: a significant proportion of the Bolshevik leaders in Russia in 1917 were Jews, and Zionists created the state of Israel in 1948.

Source: The Star April 29, 2021 19:41 UTC