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Originally posted by sensayuma ↑

“Apartheid.” An “Apartheid State.” Israel=South Africa.
It’s one of the constant themes of the Anti-Israel International.
At a soccer game in Scotland, outside the stadium where an Israeli team was playing, the pro-Palestinian protesters were out in force, unfurling their Palestinian flags, and yet again denouncing the “apartheid” of the only state in the Middle East where people of all religions and ethnicities are treated equally. Here’s the story of that Israeli soccer team.
“Apartheid” in Israel. Let’s take another look at the Israeli soccer team. There is the Jewish player Eran Zahavi, who with his teammate Moanes Dabour, an Israeli Muslim, “sliced through” the Scottish Celtic defense. The Israeli team captain, Bibras Natkho, is a Circassian Muslim. Joel Abu Hanna and Hatem Abu Elhamed are both Israeli Arabs. Loai Taha is another Israeli Arab who has been called up to play for the National Team. Left back Taleb Tawatha is an Israeli Bedouin. Eli Dasa is an Ethiopian Jew. There was no apartheid among the Israelis playing inside the stadium, though the shrill cries of “apartheid” could be heard outside. And there is no “apartheid” in any of the other sports teams that Israel sends abroad.
Nor is there any “apartheid” anywhere in Israel. Jews and Arabs study together in the same universities, work in the same factories and offices, are treated in the same hospitals, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras. As citizens of the Middle East’s only democracy, Arabs have exactly the same civil and religious rights as Jews. Arabs sit in the Knesset, where the Arab Joint List constitutes the third largest political bloc, and the current Deputy Speaker is an Arab. Arabs serve on the Supreme Court. Arabs represent their country, Israel, abroad as high-ranking diplomats. The only difference in the treatment of Jews and Arabs in Israel is this: Arabs are exempt from the requirement that they serve in the IDF, though they are welcome to do so. Hundreds of Muslim Bedouins, and Christian Arabs, as well as an increasing number of Muslim Arabs, are now soldiers – and officers – in the IDF.
None of that will make any difference to most of those outside that Scottish stadium screaming about “Israel an apartheid state.” But still, let’s not leave the field to them, nor ignore the large number of uncommitted onlookers who are not sure what to believe. The next time such an unsavory scene materializes, outside a sports stadium or a music festival where Israelis may be participating, and the squalid squad of “Israel=Apartheid” demonstrators shows up, defenders of Israel should come ready with a prepared pamphlet of facts, to hand out both to those who are busy denouncing Israel, and to those who don’t know quite what to think, and have never been given the facts that expose the full absurdity of that “apartheid charge.” That page, or possibly two, will contain critical “anti-apartheid information.” This would include a list of the names of the nearly one hundred Arabs who have served in the Knesset, including Ahmad Tibi, the current Deputy Speaker, the names the Arabs who have served on Israel’s Supreme Court (Abdel Rahman Zuaibi, Salim Joubran, and George Kara), the names of Arabs who have served as Israel’s diplomats, the names of Arab Israelis who have gained prominence at Israeli universities, and the names of those Arab doctors, in Israel, like the much-praised five doctors in the Majadlas family, who are on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The same information could be displayed on placards held up to the faces of the anti-Israel demonstrators – these facts that will then be hard to miss or dismiss, and impossible to explain away.

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