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In the past, apartheid was only associated with South Africa. Now, it’s a label that some attach to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, as Sandra Gathmann explains.

Start Here with Sandra Gathmann breaks down the big news stories so they’re easy to understand. Check out the full Start Here on the Al Jazeera YouTube channel.

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@cboffard8350

She doesn't specify what aspects of Israel / occupied territories constitute Apartheid. You won't find that out from this clip. She just uses the word as a label.

@hamalsalam3986

ISRAEL, IS INDEED THE ONLY APARTHEID AND ILLEGITIMATE STATE OF TERRORISIM IN THE WORLD.

@KingOfAfrica90

It was not 'a South African government'. It was a European Dutch colonial government.

@nimmichagger165

America is also an apartheid state – as is Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Indigenous people have no rights and are forced onto ‘reservations’. In their own country!

@nimmichagger165

No wonder Israel was apartheid South Africa’s biggest supporter and ally.

@ShSy-ni6zq

Orthodox Judaism is Apartheid !
As a faith of truly good pious quiet people
Is ok
This is NOT what Jews are today !😢
I am for what very little it is worth
I am so very sorry for my despicable 🇮🇱and people

@Myaspirantlife27

i love you sandra..you are amazingggggggg

@drea7295

The two state solution is actually apartheid .the current situation on the ground is an illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

@Eeclon

The truth matters.

@danielferreira7890

Apartheid is a short description to describe a political solution to seperate two nations with different culture, language, values, religions etc. In English it means seperate developement. Just as the "two state" solution for Israel is to be the solution between Israel and Palestine. No racism in that!
The word was Anglicized into two words, namely "apart" & "hate". Voila! and there you have RACISM!
President Dr Hendrik Verwoerd (He is accused to be the father of aparheid) in his own words said, at that time before his assassination" :
"What I want for the Whites in South Africa, I also want for the Blacks, but in their own homelands".
Blacks came from these homelands: Transkei, Betchanaland, Venda and Ciskey.
When gold and diamonds were discovered in the Boer Republics Transvaal and Freestate, these blacks flooded the two independent Republicks, in the hope of a better future.
The British then violently over threw these two Republics.
500 000 Trained soldiers from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia fought against 50 000 Boers that were only farmers. America kindly supplied the horses for these British forces.
Boer farmsteds were bombed or burnt down. All farm animals were either killed or confiscated. The woman and children were taken to Concentration camps at times they were forced to walk long distances. Some of the woman pregnant or with small children they had to carry. Others were loaded in open railway trucks. The heat was unbearable. Not enough food, neither water. If nature was calling, they had to do it in the precense of the children.
In the Concentration camps about 20 000 woman and children died of disease or being unde😢rfed.
Note: Blacks were kept in seperate concentration camps where about 26 000 died of malnutrition and disease.
Thank you Illuminati/Globalists. Just remember that God does not sleep.

@aklimaakther3843

I can say with a loud voice, this is a complete religious fanaticism. Israel is a religious extremist state, not a democratic state. The great proof of that is the occupation of the land of Palestine. And the blueprint for the establishment of Greater Israel

@kathyd1970

Canada called aparthied "the reservation system." Still to this day, reserves are allowed very little in terms of life giving and life sustaining resources. Its this standard that prevents Canada from truly standing up for Palestinians. To admit that Israel is an aparthied state would be to look in the mirror and see its own failures, its own continued injustices towards its indigenous people.

@hayatbouziani

"Caution Beware Of natives"

Bruh, I have a native freind !!!

@Mf95994

Well, Hamas has declared to exterminate all Jews in their 88 charter. Is this apartheid, too?

@Colibertlive7899

Apartheid is not in Israel but in the Arab world, where there are lots of victimisation against some groups who DI NOT share your wrong ideologies

@Vader816

Apparheid lost its meaning just like genocide

@r-Justice1421

It's a lie in the case of Israel. The separation is chosen by Palestinians who REFUSE integration.

@marvinmanuel5080

so that means Palestine specially Gaza was also apartheid 'cuz they separate Palestinian and Israeli and not letting Jews enter Gaza while thousand of thousands Gazan entering Israel every day for work? 🤔 i need to check that again…

@krystlart

Exactly

@chriscline9545

You are missing one very important point. Israel and “Palestine” are separate. Israel has its government and “Palestinians” have their own government. Arabs in Israel have the same rights, resources and opportunities as Jews in Israel. Apartheid doesn’t fit in Israel because it’s not happening.

@thchen8312

The U.S. did that to the immigrant Chinese in history too. They had been put working on building the railroad in CA and other parts of the U.S. They don't allow Chinese to live anywhere but next to the prison building. The U.S. doesn't allow them to bring in their wife and children to the U.S. for 100 years. Then eventually where they lived becomes China Town. Chinese had been mistreated for decades. Chinese had been murdered and injustice and lawless treatment from America 100 years ago.

@abdelhamidgalal7574

Free Palestine

@NatiBatijerus

You may have been brainwashed to believe Palestinian propaganda like this.but the truth is far an much more complex.tthis is the definition of apartheid:Apartheid refers to the implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights. Apartheid is a crime against humanity punishable under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court..and you dont get to change the definition so it fits you nerativ

@abdulgilzay371

Thank you for clarifying the meaning of apartheid

@dudaelements9301

Hilarious, what a pile of bs. None! None, not even one of Israeli citizens are discriminated in amy way. Those who don't have an Israeli passport, not a citizen. Same in any other country. Go to Israel and see for yourself. Arabs in Israel have the highest positions, doctors, lawyers, and members of the government (kneset). Let me ask you how many jews have the same freedom in arab countries? Exactly, none! So, who's the apartheid state here?

@2bNot

Caution : beware of your government.

@sallycherrett6571

Free Palestine..stop isreali Genocide

@Bilbs97

They love to tell you “there 2 million Arabs in Israel” but ignore the fact those Arabs have to go to their own schools, hospitals, they have their own parks, neighbourhoods, they even have separate license so they can be identified easily. Israel is the literal definition of apartheid

@suhailturgman4915

Thank you

@Jnimal

Apartheid on steroids

@HerodinSandilinia

Free Palestinian

@jamescolpas

❤️🇯🇴❤️

@dshakeryan

Yes, been there same playbook different location.

Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterized by authoritarian political control, ensuring dominance by the minority white population. Under apartheid, there was social stratification, marginalization, and strict separation based on race. White citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds, and Black Africans. The legacy of apartheid persists today, contributing to ongoing inequality -In essence, apartheid denied non-white people equal rights and subjected them to discrimination in various aspects of life

@leifhaider7280

🇮🇱helped south 🇿🇦 for 30+😊 years

They did same thing on the indigenous population in Canada.

@frankdunne-gp6oy

Being American you've probably forgot you also were an apartheid country.

@aliciafletcher9739

On the basis of its research, HRW concludes that the Isr aeli government has demonstrated an intent to maintain the domination of Isr aeli Js over Palest inians across Isr ael and the O PT. In the OP T, including E ast Jer usalem, that intent has been coupled with syste matic oppression of Pales tinians and inhumane acts committed against them. When these three elements occur together, they amount to the crime of ap artheid. The prohibition of instituti onalized discrimination, especially on grounds of race or ethnicity, constitutes one of the fundamental elements of international law. The "inhumane acts" identified in either the Convention or the Rome Statute are “forcible transfer,” “expropriation of landed property,” “creation of separate reserves and ghettos,” denial of the “the right to leave and to return to their country, and the right to a nationality. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Isra eli officials have also committed the crime against humanity of pers ecution. This finding is based on the discriminatory intent behind Is rael’s treatment of Palest inians and the grave abuses carried out in the OP T that include the widespread confiscation of privately owned land, the effective prohibition on building or living in many areas, the mass denial of residency rights, and sweeping, decades-long restrictions on the freedom of movement and basic civil rights. Such policies and practices intentionally and severely deprive millions of Pal estinians of key fundamental rights, including to residency, private property, and access to land, services, and resources, on a widespread and systematic basis by virtue of their identity as Pal estinians.

@arntzaw104

Free Plasteine . All humans set free from the Matrix . ❤🎉

@ViktorNavorski55

Israel is a menace to the free world

@hbs4658

Isn't it the same where the us white majority used to treat the blacks

As a South 🇿🇦 Africa born in the sixties I can say the Zionists in Israel makes the Boers look like children.

@j.cravani4444

They let them do,shame on then

@saadderdak9814

You are so beautiful❤ god bless

@pyrodellic

International law is a joke, it's just to pacify the screamers not to prevent crimes like these. It runs for the opressors, works for them. There is true justice, but the wait is long.

@UCzDwella201

They need to hurry…and end this war…

@NBfirefighter9493

This is not true

Mind Begs the Question:
▪︎If Nazis escaped
▪︎Embed in another Nation,Religion
▪︎Rename their Political Movement
▪︎Repeat Starvation,Death Camps,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Dehumanization,Pogroms,Mass Graves,Ethnic Cleansing,etc
▪︎Failing to recognize them for Nazis
▪︎Intelligent or Foolish?

@MKhan-uv5kt

Well explained! ❤❤❤❤ May Allah bless the Palestinians and those fighting for justice for the Palestinians 🤲🏼

@joekonopka2363

Jim Crow ju