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Originally Posted by rafiki
I'll take South Africa a million times over Nazi Germany, but I just want to point out. In Israel:
- There are no laws mandating segregation in public facilities
- Israel doesn't have laws that discriminate/classify by ethnicity
- There aren't interfaith marriage laws that I know of like there were in SA
- Arab citizens of Israel have full and equal citizenship rights
- Arab citizens may vote, they may hold office, and serve at all levels of government. There are Arabs in the Knesset
- Arab Israelis have access to the same healthcare and public schools as Jews. There are also no legally segregated school systems
- If you're an Arab citizen, you have freedom of movement. In Apartheid South Africa, they did not
I'm sure there are other points I'm missing. So look if you wanna compare to SA, sure. But people should know the above then. Because in all those ways, they are not the same.
I appreciate posts like these that bring facts to bear to support an argument. I’m not saying that I’m convinced of the underlying point, but I do feel more educated on the topic.
I do not understand the Nazi name calling that is back in this thread. It isn’t going to compel anyone else to adopt one perspective or another and it just shouldn’t be tolerated. It pops up every few weeks in this thread, people get warned and then 3 weeks later it’s the same posters back at it again