Study: Israel Just Getting Worse At Doing Apartheid Right

“No self-respecting Apartheid regime would allow the excluded class to sit on the Supreme Court.”

Arab citizens of Israel whose achievements showcase the suspicious failure of Israeli Apartheid.

Jerusalem, February 11 – An internal parliamentary report examining the country’s adherence to policies that exclude Arabs from positions of power, negate their rights, and relegate them to second-class status has revealed that Israel severely underperforms in the development and implementation of such policies, and is only getting worse at it.

A study commissioned by the Knesset Committee on Maintaining Apartheid released this week shows that despite the obvious genocidal racist Apartheid nature of Zionism, the country founded on Zionism has failed, in its nearly seventy years of existence, to get anywhere near a respectable attainment of Apartheid. Moreover, say the study’s authors, in recent decades the hope of implementing anything worth of the term Apartheid has receded almost to the point of futility.

“Israeli Apartheid: 1949-2015” looked at the ways in which Arabs in Israel could have been treated as blacks were in South Africa until the 1990’s, but the government systematically failed to take the steps necessary to achieve such treatment. Despite ample opportunity to exclude, oppress, dehumanize, and disenfranchise one fifth of Israel’ population, successive governments never followed through on those measures, or even adopted any of them convincingly.

“It’s a sobering indictment of the Israeli Apartheid enterprise,” said Professor Ammon Moavi of Haifa University, who advised the committee. “No self-respecting Apartheid regime would allow the excluded class to sit on the Supreme Court, organize itself into legal political parties, be elected to public office, serve as superior officers in the military and police to members of the ruling class, or even vote. Israel does all those things, and is only integrating Arabs into its society and official institutions in greater numbers as the years go by.”

Moavi cited the announcement today that Jamal Hakrush, an Arab Muslim, would soon be appointed police commissioner of the Coastal Precinct. “This reminds me of the Colonel who commands the legendary Golani infantry brigade – he’s a Druze. Activists around the world are right to protest Israel’s use of Apartheid, because they’re doing an awful, awful job of it.” To make matters wore, he said, Hakrush’s appointment is also part of an effort to recruit more Arabs into law enforcement.

The report also notes the prominent positions many Arabs hold in Israeli media, and the thriving Arabic-language culture flourishing in an environment that bears no resemblance to the cultural suppression that a government truly committed to Apartheid would conduct. “The competence and commitment of successive governments to the institution of Apartheid is questionable at best in light of these data,” the report’s abstract reads. “It is especially damning that in contrast to South Africa, where blacks constitute the overwhelming majority, and were nevertheless successfully excluded from influence over decades, Israel cannot manage to implement Apartheid against a population that does not currently exceed 22% of the country’s total.”

Members of Knesset from the Arab Joint List alliance of parties promised to review the report and dutifully take excerpts out of context to exacerbate ethnic divisions for political gain and attention.

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