Why Israel Is Nothing Like Apartheid South Africa -

Why Israel Is Nothing Like Apartheid South Africa -
By BENJAMIN POGRUNDMARCH 31, 2017
JERUSALEM — Among critics of Israel, it has become ever more common to accuse the Jewish state of imitating apartheid South Africa.
Apartheid in South Africa maintained privilege for the white minority
and doomed people of color to subservience; it determined every aspect of life — the school you attended, the work you did, where you lived, which hospital and ambulance you used, whom you could marry, right down to which park bench you could sit on without facing arrest.
In hospitals and clinics, Jewish and Arab doctors and nurses, secular
and religious, work together, giving care equally to Jewish and Arab patients — unthinkable under apartheid.
Those who accuse Israel of apartheid — some even say, “worse than apartheid”
— have forgotten what actual apartheid was, or are ignorant, or malevolent.