سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️samah

What’s happening in Israel is like if the US passed a constitutional amendment declaring itself an exclusively White Christian state. Black citizens can vote, but no black party/caucus is allowed into government or ruling coalition. If only there was a word for this! 🤔

Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid" All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watch👇) Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power). This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties). Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks. Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us". They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid! Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!