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CMV: The apartheid analogy doesn't really describe what is happening in Israel/Palestine

It has become common in recent times for activists to compare what is going on in Israel/Palestine today to what went on in apartheid-era South Africa. According to this line of thinking, Palestinian Arabs are analogous to black South Africans and modern Israel is analogous to apartheid-era South Africa. I consider this to be flawed for reasons that I will explain below.

The first reason why the apartheid analogy is flawed is because unlike the black South African struggle which was based on fighting for equal rights, the Palestinian Arab struggle is based on ethnic nationalism. The Palestine National Charter, the official document of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), doesn't explicitly advocate for a state where equal rights for everyone are guaranteed. Rather, it is full of rhetoric alleging that Palestine is an Arab homeland that was stolen by the Zionists. 

The second reason why the apartheid analogy is flawed is because the ideology of the State of Israel is not the same as the ideology of apartheid-era South Africa. The ideology of the latter was centered around segregating people on the basis of race and ethnicity and awarding rights based on these attributes while the ideology of the former, Zionism, simply states that Jews have the right to national self-determination in what is arguably their historic homeland. It is true that Palestinian Arabs living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip don't have the same rights as Israeli Jews. This can't be likened to apartheid South Africa however because unlike black South Africans who were citizens of South Africa only to later have their citizenship revoked by the government, Palestinian Arabs living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were never Israeli citizens to begin with. The Six Day War was the only reason why they ended up being under Israeli control. 

For the reasons mentioned above, I consider the thought process likening what is happening in Israel/Palestine to what happened in apartheid-era South Africa to be flawed. I am not stating this as someone who is firmly in the Zionist camp: personally, I think that the best solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a binational state where both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs have equal rights under the law. I just think that an analogy that is based on shaky grounds makes peace harder to achieve. If this view is flawed, I would like to have it challenged respectfully.
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It's an analogy, not a 1:1 reproduction. In your own words, people using it are "likening what is happening in Israel/Palestine to what happened in apartheid-era South Africa." *Likening.* 

Focusing on the obvious differences between the Israel-Palestine conflict and Apartheid South Africa doesn't defeat the analogy, because the analogy is about their similarities. Do similarities exist? Undeniably. 

So the question isn't whether there are differences, its whether those differences are sufficient to make their similarities coincidental, trivial, or just generally meaningless. You make no real effort to show that.