9.4 Is Israel an Apartheid State?
There are people who are pushing the idea in schools that Israel is an apartheid state. A group in California is pushing for a Liberated Ethnic Culture Curriculum which teaches children that Israel is apartheid. A group called New York Educators for Palestine teaches anti-Israel propaganda and a teacher who wore a shirt to school that said "Proud Zionist" was told by the principal that he couldn't wear the shirt in the school building even though other political slogans were allowed to be worn by staff members. The Boycott Divestment and Sanction movement is a group that accuses Israel of apartheid and that encourages organizations to boycott Israel. The Seattle Education Association endorsed the BDS movement. A San Francisco teachers union did as well. For this reason this web site has a lesson that asks "Is Israel an Apartheid State?
One of the reasons that Israel is accused of apartheid is because it has built border fences and walls which keep it apart from Palestinian controlled areas. Israel had to do this to keep out terrorists. On October 7, 2023, Gazan terrorists bulldozed a hole through the Israeli built fence and also flew over it with paragliders carrying terrorists with machine guns.
Throughout history many countries have built border fences or walls. The most famous of these walls is the Great Wall of China which was built to defend China from northern invaders.
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No one every thought to accuse China of apartheid for building the Great Wall of China. Gaza has another border, that with Egypt. Egypt has build a border wall to keep Iranian influence and terrorists in Gaza apart from Egypt. Here is a picture of the Egyptian wall.
No one has accused Egypt of apartheid. King Abdallah 2 of Jordan was asked to take in their brother Muslim refugees from Gaza. He refused. No one has accused him of apartheid either. The apartheid accusation against Israel is just a way enemies of Israel make Israel look bad.
Muslim propagandists say that Gaza is an open air prison because Israel built the Gaza–Israel barrier which keeps Palestinian Arabs from crossing out of Gaza into Israel. The truth is there were four border crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip through the barrier: the Kerem Shalom, Karni, Erez, and Sufa crossings. The Israelis built the barrier to keep terrorists out. The Israelis built a fence along with lookout and communication towers, security camers and remote controlled machine guns. The Palestinians shot at the cameras, bombed the towers with drones and broke through the fence in 30 places with bulldozers. At the same time they launched thousands of rockets into Israel. That was the end of the so called apartheid and made it possible for the Palestinian terrorists to murder over a thousand people.
One thing that makes the apartheid accusation even more absurd is that Israel did allow Arabs from Gaza to enter through the crossings and to work in Israel. Those Arabs took advantage of Israeli kindness to spy on the Israelis and use that information for their terrorist attack.
One of the places those Arabs worked was Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Terrorists from Gaza killed a lot of Israelis there on October 7, 2023, including babies. Lt. Colonel Jonathan Conricus talks about Kfar Aza with Sky News in the video clip below.
Although when it comes to Israel Muslim propagandists define apartheid as keeping Muslims who live in Gaza apart in reality apartheid means keeping different races who live in the same country separate. The Muslims are not a different race than the Jews, there are Muslims and Jews of all races. The Muslims are different because of what they believe and many believe they should attack the Jews. Here is an excellent video by PragerU called the Myth of Israeli Apartheid.
The following two videos are of Israeli Arabs who love Israel and are proud to be Israelis and who are clearly not victims of apartheid.
There is real apartheid but it is in Palestinian Arab controlled areas. Jews who have the misfortune of taking a wrong turn and driving into Palestinian controlled areas are in danger of their lives. In December 2021 two Israelis took a wrong turn into the Palestinian controlled town of Ramallah. This is what the Palestinians did to their car.
The Israelis were escorted out of the area and turned over to Israel unhurt by Palestinian security forces. They were lucky. In other cases Israelis have not been so lucky. For this reason Israel found it necessary to order Jews to stay out of Palestinian controlled areas.
There are Muslim no go zones in Europe where non-Muslims, especially Jews are afraid to go. That is a form of real apartheid.
Two Israelis wandered too close to a Palestinian Arab protest in New York. This is what happened. No Israelis allowed. Apartheid.
Israel in order to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks build a fence and in some parts a wall on what is known as the green line. After Israel survived the 1948 attempts of the Arab armies to destroy it, it signed armistice agreements with those Arab countries defining a border called the green line. After repeated terrorist attacks Israel built a fence along the green line. Propagandists against Israel say this fence creates apartheid. What it does is keeps Arab terrorists apart from the Israeli population although some Arab terrorists get through and their rockets fly over the fence. Despite that the fence has helped keep Israelis safe as summarized below.
Israel is a tiny country but it beat one of the greatest soccer countries Brazil.
There used to be Jews living in the lands conquered by the Muslims. What happened to them? The Muslims didn't just conquer and occupy the lands where Jews lived, they drove them out. Robert Spencer wrote:
Ultimately the Prophet of Islam determined that Jews and Christians would no longer be allowed in Arabia at all. "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula," he told his companion, "and will not leave any but Muslims. He gave just such an order on his deathbed.
Who is guilty of apartheid?
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