Tuesday, December 16, 2014

39 Reasons Why There is no Apartheid in Israel

The following is reprinted from research by Tom Carew

The 39 key Constituent Elements which defined Historic Apartheid in South Africa over the 22 years from 1949 to 1970 inclusive, during which it was gradually developed and extended by the minority, whites-only regime of the Afrikaner *National Party*, which first came to power in 1948.
1. 1949. Legal ban on mixed [ inter-racial ] Marriage.
2. 1950. Legal ban on inter-racial sexual intercourse or sexual acts.
3. 1950. Racial Group Classification based on skin-color, with everybody assigned by state bureaucracy [ not personal choice ] to either [a] White, [b] Colored, [c] Indian or Black Groups, and with the Black population further sub-divided into distinct 10 *tribal* divisions, again based only on state decision, and not on personal self-identification.
4. Compulsory Passbook IDs with the state color classification of the person, and with criminalization and jailing of anybody found not carrying their passbook.
5. 1950. Compulsory Segregation of all residential areas, according to the State racial categories.
6. 1950. Power of State [ and not Courts ] to ban any organization if deemed *communist* by the State, with that loose term encompassing any deemed to *disrupt racial harmony*, and thus in effect completely outlawing any peaceful protest against the racist system and regime.
7. Power of the State [ and again not the Courts ] to ban any gatherings.
8. 1953. Bantu Education Act in effect consigned the black majority to being educated as laborers.
9. 1953. Hospitals racially segregated by law.
10. 1953. Ambulances racially segregated by law.
11. 1953. Swimming Pools " " "
12. 1953. Schools " " "
13. 1953. Graveyards " " "
14. 1953. Beaches " " "
15. 1953. Public Toilets " " "
16. 1953. Buses " " "
17. 1953. Bus-stops " " "
18. 1953. Parks & Benches " " "
19. 1953. Cinemas " " "
20. 1953. Theaters " " "
21. 1953 Hotels " " "
22. 1953. Restaurants " " "
23.          TV Channels ( added later) 
24. 1955. Feb 22, 50,000 deported into black SOWETO Township SW of J'burg, with overall another 3.5 M deported between 1960 and 1983 to segregated Townships or Bantustans.
25. 1956. Colored voters separated from the common Electoral Roll, and in 1969 completely deprived of the right to vote.
26. 1956. Trade Unions racially segregated by law, with 54 white unions, 38 colored and 19 black.
27. 1959. Candidates designated by the State as white, barred from representing areas designated by the State as black.
28. 1959. Separate Universities.
29. Only 13% of land reserved for blacks, which was also the worst quality land, and this for those who were 68% of the total population.
30. Blacks may not employ whites.
31. Blacks treated in law, as temporary, foreign migrant workers.
32. Spouses and children of black workers excluded from their work areas
33. White taxpayers paid tax from a Threshold of 750 Rand but black taxpayers paid from a threshold of only 360 Rand.
33. Blacks may not buy any land in a white area.
34. Blacks may not be candidates.
35. Blacks denied a vote.
36. Blacks may not work without a Work Permit which also confined them to a named town
37. In 1970s, the State spent 10 times as much on the Education of a white child as on a black child.
38. Blacks excluded from the Judiciary.
39. 1970. All Blacks deprived of citizenship and re-classified as *citizens* of the 10 tiny tribal Bantustan territories.
No 40 - no African language was Official, only Afrikaans and English
Any impartial, objective, evidence-based comparison of the State of Israel since its foundation in May, 1948, can only conclude not only that it does not, and never has, incorporated all 39 key features of Historic Apartheid, but that in fact, it does not now, and never has embodied even ONE of those 39 defining features of the racist white South African Apartheid system.

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