Dredging up the Israel/apartheid question

In addition to everything else they are, the scribblings on The Washington Post Op-Ed Page are often wildly out of touch.  They often have the feel of having been written a decade ago, stuffed under a mattress somewhere, and then arbitrarily hauled out and dusted off for publication.  With seemingly no trigger, Richard Cohen woke up today and decided to write about a long-standing though not particularly relevant (and largely semantic) controversy:   whether the word "apartheid" is properly ...