[news] Citizenship Law Makes Israel an Apartheid State

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By Amos Schocken - July, 16 2008

The claim that there are characteristics of an apartheid state in Israel is widely heard in the Western world. The word _apartheid_ is catchy and understood in many parts of the world, which makes it useful to send a message that [Israeli's] resent and which we claim has no connection with reality in Israel. However, we do not need to replicate exactly the characteristics of South African apartheid within discriminatory practices in civil rights in Israel in order to call Israel an apartheid state. The amendment to the **Citizenship Law** is exactly such a practice, and it is best that we not try to evade the truth: Its existence in our law books turns Israel into an apartheid state.  


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