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Israel. An Apartheid state. Oh really? How? Where? Can you prove it? Have you been there? Have you been to one of the many 100% Muslim-occupied countries and seen how free their citizens are?

This is the new hip and current accusation by the anti-Semites, the anti-Jews, the supporters of the anti-democratic and hypocritical BDS and the bigoted ignorati who have simply run out of steam with various other spurious denunciations of the Middle East's only true democracy. 

 

Yes. Israel the Apartheid state. Oh really?

 

For some strange reason, known only to themselves, they seem to have totally ignored Arab-occupied countries in the Middle East. Those that really are Apartheid - to their own native women; to gays; to minorities; to the disabled.

 

So why do they hypocritically accuse ONLY Israel?

 

APARTHEID IN ISRAEL? REALLY? What sort of moron claims this?

Well, yes. OK. I can concede that Ultra-conservative Orthodox Jews in Mea She'arim, one of the oldest Jewish neighbourhoods in Jerusalem and one populated mainly by traditional Haredi Jews that was built by the original settlers of the Old Yishuv, can object to secular Jews working, driving and shopping (etc) on the Sabbath or on High Holy Days. But this is Jews objecting to other Jews.

While they may become a bit vocal and 'shouty', and I can admit that perhaps on occasion they have been known to become a little aggressive and chuck the odd stone (not bullets or bombs) at a car passing through their district on an all-important holy day, but, that's about it. They certainly don't grab threateningly-messaged placards and rampage down the centre of Jerusalem screaming 'death to non-believers'; neither do they blow themselves up in busy restaurants; nor do they drive aeroplanes full of passengers into tall buildings full of occupants on the Tel Aviv seafront. Add they certainly don't drag people on ropes down streets behind motorcycles.

Yes. Apartheid is used purely to delegitimise Israel for no other reason than it's a Jewish state.
Where's the outrage at Assad for killing 200,000 Syrians including using Chemical weapons on women and Children?
Where's the outrage at the ISIS beheadings?
Where's the outrage at Boko Haram kidnapping hundreds if not thousands of girls and selling them as sex slaves?

Where's the outrage at the slaying of Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa?

Where's the outrage at gays being thrown off buildings?

Where's the outrage at women being stoned for being raped?

What it doesn't include are JEWS so to these anti-Semites,  BDS donkeys and the rather unintilligent academics, outrages don't seem to.

So they say "Let's instead vilify the only country and the only people in the Middle East who are standing up to these REAL monsters".

 

And that's it.

 

Otherwise, eveyone else in Israel generally just gets on unhindered - be they Jew, Christian, Arab/Muslim, Seikh, non-believers, male, female, gay even Scientologist. Yes, I'm afraid they do, that's the way it is.

Here are just some other instances of Israeli Apartheid that seem to be strangely overlooked by the anti-Israel brigade - are there as many Jewish people in similar positions in Muslim-occupied countries?

• an Israeli Arab judge on the High Court

• an Arab judge who presided over the trial at which a former president of Israel was convicted

• the Druze, Majali Wahabi, who was former acting president of Israel

• the Arab captain of the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team

• another Arab as a member of the Israeli National Football Team

• the former Miss Israel, an Arab women named Yityish Aynaur

• the Druze historian and poet who was Israel’s ambassador to Ecuador

• the Arab director of the Emergency Medicine Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem; the popular Bedouin pop singer who was at the top of the charts

• the Miss Israel Universe, half-Arab and half-Russian Christian, the top model Niral Karantinji

• the Druze major-general in the IDF

• the Arab Christian woman who is the “Voice of Israel” competition winner

• the Arab Muslim female runner-up in the Master Chef competition 2014 - the trio, composed of an Arab Israeli woman, a male German convert to Judaism, and a Jewish Orthodox woman, competing in 2014 to be Master Chef

• anyone visiting an Israeli hospital or medical center would quickly notice the presence of a significant number of Arab doctors, nurses and pharmacists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But how about other countries in the Middle East. The ones that these accusers never mention. OK, let's start with the Middle East's biggest Pariah, Iran.

 

IRAN

Iran, that once-great country. Forever calling for the destruction of Israel. It has George Galloway, the British MP, as a regular paid broadcaster - a broadcaster who has never one even hinted, yet alone suggested they stop doing this. A man who earns over £300,000 on top of his MP's salary of £67,000 for his broadcasting in pariah countries.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the latest in a line of 14th Century-seeking leaders since the admittedly by no means innocent, but otherwise relatively normal, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was deposed in 1979 by the blood-lusting lunatic, Ayatollah Khomeni, has recently proposed some mighty fine laws to further eradicate women's rights.

• restrict birth control (he wants population to double from 77million to 150milion over next 50 years)

• outlaw vasectomies

• outlaw female sterilisation

• ban recruitment of single teachers

• childless lawyers to not be permitted to practice family law

• restrict access to jobs for childless adults

• employers to give precedence for jobs to people with children

• give rights to citizens to morally police correctness of the currently cumpulsory-by-law womens' hijab (headscarf) - men on motorcycles are increasingly throwing acid in the faces of women who show too much hair or wear 'excessive' make-up

• some clerics regularly declare that "for solving the issue of hijab, blood must be shed"

• women are also increasingly being stabbed by 'morally upright citizens' for not wearing the 'correct' hijab

The detestable and hypocritical BDS and their Apartheid-Israel accusing  supporters are strangely quiet about all this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia is currently ranked127th out of 136 countries for gender parity

• all women, regardless of age, are required to have a male guardian

• women are prohibited from driving

• Saudi women constitute a mere 13% of the country's native workforce

• there is high sex segregation in Saudi Arabia

• women are alleged to have a `lack of capacity` so women may need their guardian's permission for marriage and divorce,travel, if under 45, education, employment, opening a bank account , elective surgery particularly when sexual in nature

• Saudi Arabian men receive a text message on their mobile phones whenever a woman under their custody leaves the country, even if she is traveling with her guardian

• The ownership of a woman is passed from one man to another. Ownership of the woman is passed from the father or the brother to another man, the husband

• most women are expected to wear the hijab (head covering), a full black cloak called an abaya, and a face-veil called niqab

• women are required to have men swear for them in a court of law

• there are no laws defining the minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia

• the inheritance share of women in Saudi is generally smaller than that to which men are entitled

• with no penal code in Saudi Arabia, there is no written law which specifically criminalizes rape or prescribes its punishment. The rape victim is often punished as well

• there is no prohibition against spousal or statutory rape

• the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transvestite) people in Saudi Arabia are unrecognised

• the Saudi Constitution does not provide for a right to privacy

• Saudi Arabia has no laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - discriminations is actually encouraged

• the Saudi government censors the media with fines, imprisonment and, for foreigners, deportation for any person possessing, importing, distributing or producing media without governmental approval

• for same-sex activity prison sentences of several months to life, fines and/or whipping/flogging, castration, torture, vigilante execution, or death can be sentenced on first conviction. A second conviction merits execution

• conversion from Islam to another religion is considered apostasy and punishable by death

• religious freedom is virtually non-existent

• churches, temples and synagogues may not be built

• Sharia law applies to all people inside Saudi Arabia, regardless of religion

• Saudi Arabia prohibits public non-Muslim religious activities

• the death penalty is recopmmended for anyone caught carrying or smuggling a bible into the country

• judges may discount the testimony of people who are not practicing Muslims

• Saudi Arabia's treatment of religious minorities has been described by both Saudis and non-Saudis as "apartheid" and "religious apartheid

The detestable and hypocritical BDS and their Apartheid-Israel accusing  supporters are strangely quiet about all this

 

LEBANON

• Although Palestinians have lived in Lebanon for more than six decades, they are still treated as foreigners when it comes to obtaining a work permit

• Palestinians cannot own property in Lebanon

• Palestinians in Lebanon are banned from working as doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers or accountants

• Mohammed Nabil Taha, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, died on 16 March 2011 at the entrance to a Lebanese hospital after doctors refused to help him because his family could not afford to pay for medical treatment and they would't treat a Palestinian for free (Israel admits Palestinian patients to its hospitals for free).

The detestable and hypocritical BDS as well as the UN and all the other ignorant Apartheid-Israel accusing  supporters are strangely quiet about all this

 

QATAR

• Qatar's infamous "kafala" system means that workers on the World Cup Stadiums  have to turn over the passports to the companies employing them, opening them up to all manner of abuse and injustice and effectively trapping them in Qatar

• The International Trade Union Confederation estimates there will be 4,000 deaths to migrant workers building the stadia for the 2022 World Cup. That's building stadiums, not civilians protecting themselves from Qatar-sponsored Hamas rockets