Does Israel practice apartheid?
[ Back ] [ Next ] The very definition of apartheid is controversial. In its simplest terms it means separation, or more precisely a separation of peoples. There is no doubt that Israel has operated on this principle in the occupied territories. Due to Israels settlement policy, two peoples are spread throughout the Holy Land. One group has rights and privileges, plentiful water and segregated road ways. The other group has few rights, inadequate water and no ability to stop the first group from confiscating its land. Structures of Separation: Wall, fences, segregated roads Israeli Jeff Halper has defined apartheid as a system in which one population separates itself from another and then proceeds to dominate it permanently and structurally.” According to American Heritage Dictionary, In South Africa, apartheid denied blacks and other non-whites civic, social, and economic equality with whites.” In Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, apartheid denies Christians and Muslims
