Israel is an apartheid state, a claim now explicitly made by Amnesty International [1]. Pick any number of highlights: - Denying citizenship to Palestinians (a

Israel is an apartheid state, a claim now explicitly made by Amnesty International [1]. Pick any number of highlights: - Denying citizenship to Palestinians (and other Muslims); - The Palestinian residence card system. Families that cannot be reunited because of it; - Population quotas in Jerusalem. Palestinians who have it and leave to, say, go to college will be deemed to have abandoned their residency to maintain this quota; - Palestinians have separate roads to keep them away from Israelis; - Palestinian settlements are then further separated by Jewish settlements. These were once deemed illegal but any pretense of removing them has long since disappeared. So it may now take hours to go a mile because of all the new security checkpoints; - Denying Palestinians building permits and then demolishing anything they build because it's not permitted; and - Rampant use of collective punishment by the IDF. From the video as one example, kids throwing rocks lead to IDF setting up checkpoints with the explicit purpose of inconveniencing and delaying everyone as a (collective) punishment. Gaza is an open air prison [2]. Any criticism of these rampant human rights violation gets labelled as being anti-Semitic. It's anti-Israeli. There's a difference. In the present Ukraine war many have criticized the (illegal) annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014. Where is the outrage over, say, Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights? Worse, Russia's annexation has been repeatedly confirmed by Western NGOs as being widely popular with the actual Crimeans [3]. You can legitimately criticize Russia for the Crimean annexation. That's a completely reasonable position. But if you're going to do that, how is the Golan Heights different? The same goes for any self-determination arguments, as an aside. If Ukraine has the right to self-determination with respect to, say, NATO membership, why don't Crimeans have the right to to join Russia? [1]: https://vimeo.com/674482282?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=87399582 https://vimeo.com/674482282?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&... [2]: https://www.nrc.no/news/2018/april/gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison/ https://www.nrc.no/news/2018/april/gaza-the-worlds-largest-o... [3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/20/one-year-after-russia-annexed-crimea-locals-prefer-moscow-to-kiev/?sh=2fb11f45510d https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/20/one-year-a...