Jayapal apologizes for calling Israel a 'racist state'

[Beastly Boy]

6. No apologies needed. The term "apartheid" is being widely misused (and misunderstood) all over.

Not sure why you insist that the system of apartheid is separate and apart from the definition of apartheid. For example, the Palestinians of the West bank and Gaza are being treated far more harshly by Israel's authorities than the Palestinians who are the citizens of Israel, even though a radically different system of privileges and biases is being applied towards both groups who share a single ethnicity. There is no common status shared by the two groups, nor are there defined principles and rules, implicit or explicit, that would resemble anything remotely systemic in the treatment of the two groups, even though they are ethnically the same.

I am of the opinion that misusing any terminology leads to confusion and misdirection, and this obscures the purpose of the term being applied. In this case, it is also insulting to the people who did suffer under the conditions which are defined by apartheid.

On edit: By the same token, Ms Jayapal calling Israel a racist state is an insult to all Israeli citizens; Jews, Palestinians, Bedouins and Druze alike, all who are proud to live in a democratic pluralistic society, even when they strongly object to the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories by the current government in Israel.