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The difference between South Africa & Israel's Apartheid regimes, is that Israel's Apartheid regime is actually worse. https://twitter.com/SeoirseDuffy_/status/1329007163533037568
The difference between South Africa & Israel's Apartheid regimes, is that Israel's Apartheid regime is actually worse. https://twitter.com/SeoirseDuffy_/status/1329007163533037568
As the late Patrick Wolfe outlines in these two videos, a key difference between Israel's Apartheid, Settler Colonial regime & South Africa's, is that South Africa needed to maintain its black population for the purposes of exploitation. Israel wants rid of the Palestinians.
However, it is not only this key difference in the driving logic of the social formation that makes Israel's Apartheid regime worse. Many activists involved in the struggle in SA & internationally have discussed at length its more brutal & racist structure https://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/8/noam_chomsky_what_israel_is_doing
The complex regime of necro-political military "splintering" occupation in the West Bank & Gaza, geographical entrenches a landscape of racist violence which Achille Membe terms "necropower": https://muse.jhu.edu/article/39984/summary
Jewdas laid out some of the international definitions of Apartheid in this thread, all of which can be applied to the whole of Palestine: https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1328413803197976590?s=19
Noura Erakat discusses it too in her book "Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine", with the recent report by the ESCWA stating that Israel imposes an Apartheid regime on the Palestinian people as a whole: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN16M2IN
@AdalahCenter provides over 65 Israeli laws which racially discriminate against Palestinians in both Israel & the Occupied Territories:
These include the targeting of non-Jewish citizens right to citizenship, the inability of non-Jews to buy property etc. https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/7771
These include the targeting of non-Jewish citizens right to citizenship, the inability of non-Jews to buy property etc. https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/7771
Also good to recognise, while we are engaging in comparative analysis, that Apartheid in South Africa is ongoing in many ways.
Andy Clarno outlines the ongoing nature of what he terms "NeoLiberal Apartheid", comparing both Israel & SA post-1994 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo25338775.html
Andy Clarno outlines the ongoing nature of what he terms "NeoLiberal Apartheid", comparing both Israel & SA post-1994 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo25338775.html
