The special nature of Israel’s mission as antiracist flows through the words of its own leaders, from David Ben-Gurion (“A Jew can’t be for discrimination”) to Shimon Peres (“A Jew who accepts apartheid ceases to be a Jew”) to Benjamin Netanyahu (“For the Jewish people, apartheid is the ultimate abomination. It is an expression of the cruelest inhumanity. Israel will do everything possible to eliminate this odious system”). But this rhetoric cannot stand against the record.
