‘Pinkwashing' label used to blacken Israel, June 18
Vivian Bercovici robustly defends Israel against the
charge of apartheid, but she neither justifies nor
denounces those aspects of Israeli state policy
described as such.

The core of Israel’s ethnic nationalist policies is that
religious background is the principal determining factor of how that country
treats those who come under its power. Thus any Jewish person from Toronto
arriving in Israel has automatic claims to citizenship and hence enjoys greater
rights than any Palestinian living in their ancestral homeland, whether in
Israel proper or the occupied Palestinian territories.

This includes the right to travel on Jewish-only buses, drive on Jewish-only
highways that connect the Jewish-only settlements enthusiastically being built
on the best lands in the West Bank — all illegal according to international
law.

And if there is any doubt that settlements are state policy, in 2011 the
government “banned any calls to boycott goods or services produced in West
Bank settlements and the blacklisting of cultural and academic institutions in
settlements.” (The Guardian , 12/6/11).
So the question is: Why would Canada, a country that strives to treat all its
citizens fairly and equally — even if our institutions don’t always live up to
that ideal — not only defend, but indeed support, such institutionalized
discrimination?

This issue is not about anti-Semitism or irrationally demonizing Israel, it’s
about demanding justice and equality for all people.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2013/06/22/pride_and_israeli_apartheid.html

Let's face it, Zionists have stopped justifying the apartheid charges because doing so draws attention to the obvious: a caste system that determines entitlement does exists in Israel, and this system is based on ethnicity.

No other modern nation does this, yet these Jews get offended when people mention it.