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> The situation for Arab Israeli citizens, fraught as it may be, is not comparable to that of Black Africans under Apartheid, or that of Black Americans in the

• runarberg 3y ago
  Apartheid South Africa also had the Tricameral Parliament[1] which gave “Coloured” and Indian people a minority seats at the legislator. Off course this type of representation was only performative and the only purpose was to give the appearance of democracy. Notable here—since we are now comparing the rights of victims of different apartheid systems—is the tiered system of giving separate peoples varying levels of—still performative—representation. In Israel, Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (including Bedouin) do have a minority representation at their legislator, however Palestinians in the West Bank don’t, while Palestinians in Gaza effectively live in an unrecognized (and constantly terrorized) bantustan. The systems of apartheid which Israel upholds are in many ways worse than South Africa’s (and in every way worse than Pre-civil rights USA). But in most way’s it is simply different. Which is kind of why we really shouldn’t be ranking apartheid systems (nor any form of oppression for that matter). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricameral_Parliament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricameral_Parliament