Whereas South African apartheid was based on white supremacy and the colonial subjugation of other ethnic groups, with the Black African majority at the very bottom, Israeli apartheid is characterized by Jewish Israeli supremacy over the native Palestinian population. There’s even a similar hierarchy in our oppression. The ’48 Palestinians, for example, who are second-class citizens in Israel, have more rights and privileges than those of us living under military occupation and rule in the West Bank and Gaza, like my family. We have absolutely no political rights over the government that
...more
