All across the nation, anti-Israel activists are involved in what has become known as “Israeli Apartheid Week.” One thing is certain — if you are looking for apartheid, you won’t find it in Israel. Anti-Israel activists call this an apartheid week to instill shock value on a group of people they believe know little about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By associating apartheid with Israel, they hope students will blindly join their cause. But they cannot bill a week dedicated to anti-Israel sentiment as “Hate Israel Week” because that obviously carries negative connotations. But rest assured, this week is nothing more than the anti-Israel movement’s attempt to draw up hatred against the world’s lone Jewish State.
To call Israel an apartheid state is not only inaccurate, but also highly offensive toward people that have actually faced apartheid. This is a common theme in the anti-Israel movement’s repertoire, use of an appalling historical event for their own personal gain despite no correlation.
Just last year BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, brought an event to campus that I believe compared Israeli acts of self-defense to the calculated murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. They tirelessly attempt to delegitimize Israel, fictitiously comparing it to atrocious regimes of the past only to be blinded by their movement’s hypocritical track record.
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