Mondoweiss: Are comparisons of South African apartheid and Israel useful?

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21. So if the definition of Apartheid is outdated & doesn't apply to Israel....

...then you have nothing to prove there's Apartheid in Israel.

The OP is trying to frame the the arguments for and against the Apartheid analogy, not to provide a definite conclusion. The definition of Apartheid is only an example, the OP doesn't really bother that much with presenting a definition of Apartheid.

Frankly, I don't have a good description of what Apartheid is either - the UN definition is too dependent on Apartheid South Africa to be of any real use. I would define Apartheid loosely as one group of civilians lacking civil rights while another group has them. I don't see ethnicity as a necessary factor, it's the lack of civil rights when others have them that's the main issue.

I hope you understand that I'm not impressed when you make up your own version of the arguments in the OP and then refute them.

Little Tich doesn't get to define Apartheid.
Or what constitutes Antisemitism for that matter.
BTW, that's why neither you or the BDS ass-hats are taken seriously by the Western world.

QED.