Calling Israel an apartheid state is an insult to black South Africans

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46. There is no such BDS movement. Who are the leaders of this movement who are not....

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....associated with greater BDS led by Omar Barghouti, Ali Abunimah, etc.? They don't exist. There are no BDS people out there who we know of that also oppose the self-appointed BDS you say you're against. If I'm wrong then name a few. Let me know which particular part of BDS (if it exists at all) you support and who its leaders are. Link me to it.

Saying you're only for a certain part of BDS is like saying you're only for a certain part of the KKK movement, the good part, whatever that is.

And being for a BDS that calls for the destruction of Israel via 1 secular state (hardly any Palestinians or Israelis support this) kind of makes one's views on Apartheid irrelevant altogether, since there's nothing Israel can do to "better" itself other than agree to its own destruction and end of liberal democracy altogether. Note the irony - calling for an end of Apartheid and Israel in favor of a fascist, racist, regressive state led by Hamas or some other rightwing Palestinian party. This "concern" over apartheid and human rights is 100% fake.

I've presented a few examples that support the Apartheid analogy; the economic discrimination in the form of different GDP, the legal discrimination in the form of different legal systems and the discrimination in the form of water consumption.

Refute me.

I can definitely refute you on your points, but I want you to first acknowledge Apartheid in Lebanon against generations of Palestinians born there who are denied dozens of professional jobs, denied to own land, go to public school, or have state health care.

What Lebanon does comes a helluva lot closer to the definition of Apartheid than the crap you're throwing at Israel.

I doubt you can admit it.

I'll go even further to let it be known you prefer "Apartheid" over ending the occupation/settlements.

Israel has made several offers over the past couple decades to end the occupation and settlements, which would give the Palestinians their own state.....but you're against all of these proposals as well as the Saudi Arab peace initiative that includes land swaps.

So it's obvious you prefer and support "Apartheid" more than Israel does.

Which goes to show how ridiculous your anti-Apartheid stance is WRT Israel/Palestine.