Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Ugly History of the Apartheid Smear

This Comes from the Telegraph

Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson is the Editor of Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region and Senior Research Fellow at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM). A professor of democratic theory and practice, he is an editorial board member of Dissent magazine, and a Senior Research Associate at The Foreign Policy Centre.


The idea that Israel is an "apartheid state" is the shaky intellectual foundation of the global movement to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish homeland (BDS). In The Apartheid Smear, a new pamphletout today, I try to show that the comparison of Israel with racist apartheid-era South Africa is a malicious lie that does huge damage to the central goal of the peace process: the creation through negotiation of two states for two peoples, Israeli and Palestinian.
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