When criticising a country and its policies one should always try to be comparative and contextual, to better understand the issue. To his credit, Dr Firoz Osman has done exactly that. He was comparing apartheid in Israel to that in pre-democratic SA. He will surely, therefore, indulge and allow a similar technique before I try to debunk his assertion of apartheid in Israel. Let’s take most of the Arab world and examine the discrimination (read apartheid) in Syria as well as Lebanon, where the good doctor should know just how the Palestinians are enduring the kind of apartheid that hardly existed here in our country. In Saudi Arabia, there are roads that Christians are prohibited from using, as well as women being prohibited from driving cars. There are another 16 Muslim countries that bar Israeli Jews from entry. The Baha’i people from Iran — once the largest such community in the world — have fled that country due to the discrimination, and worse, at the hands of those tolerant mu...
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