Israel isn't an apartheid state though and as for treating its citizens as second class that is exactly what Hamas is doing. And there has only been one race that the word extermination has ever been used for and that is the Jews.
I have tried to stay out of the thread as of late, because I have realised I am just too close to the situation to stay calm when discussing it on here.
But I am breaking that to reply to this message because I think it is important to do so.
Much of what you and other defenders of the far-right, extreme Zionist Netanyahu government have said before, during, and after the 7 October attacks can reasonably be put down to holding a completely opposing view to those that oppose the regime based on very different beliefs systems, and some of it can genuinely be argued logically from either side based on tenets of your particular ideology. Not all defence of Israeli actions is inherently false and abhorrent, just as not all defence of Palestinian actions are inherently true and righteous.
But you have lost all credibility in the discussion by claiming that Israel is not an apartheid state.
Here is the definition of apartheid from the Cornell School of Law:
Apartheid refers to the implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights. Apartheid is a crime against humanity punishable under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Israel, as it exists today, absolutely meets that definition, and has for decades.
Any denial of this widely accepted fact (outside of the official position of the Israeli state, anyway) is a tacit admission of being an extremist Zionist who is disconnected from reality and therefore no longer someone whose contributions should be taken with any merit whatsoever. Just as it was from the National Party zealots during apartheid in South Africa.
And, as a Jewish person, whose family is filled with those that descended from human beings that perished in (and survived) apartheid and the holocaust, and who has lived and worked in Israel and Palestine (and has family and friends there now), it is incredibly frightening to see how pervasive the denial of reality has become in and outside Israel.
That state of Israel has become—and has been actively carrying out—the very thing it was founded to stop from ever happening again.
The blindness to this is both dumbfounding and horrifying.
