Israel is NOT an apartheid state.
It’s a
democracy. This is a transparent attempt to delegitimize — and isolate and ultimately destroy — the Jewish state by associating it with a racist regime that the world must wipe out of existence. It is nothing like the apartheid regime in South Africa that depended on a rigorously enforced system of racial repression.
The Arab minority in Israel (about 20 percent of the population) are not treated like black South Africans were.
Arab citizens have
full rights including women. They serve in the government. This is the
official page of the Israeli government. They have their own political parties. The Joint List is a political alliance of four of the Arab-majority political parties in Israel.
Mansour Abbas - Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs
Samy Abu Shahadeh - Chair of the Joint List
Aida Touma-Sliman - Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality -
Osama Sa'adi - Constitution Law and Justice Committee, the State Control Committee, the special committee for public petitions
Ayman Odeh - House Committee and the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, chairs the Lobby for Culture in the Knesset.
The sole legal distinction between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is that the latter are not required to serve in the Israeli army. This was to spare Arab citizens the need to take up arms against their brethren. Nevertheless, many Arabs have volunteered for military duty – more than 1,000 in 2020 – and the Druze and Circassian communities are subject to the draft
Palestine News Network Poll
93 % of the Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem prefer living under Israeli rule, according to a new poll by the Palestine News Network. The survey offered the choice between ongoing Israeli rule of the city or a transfer of rule to the Palestinian Authority. Of the 1,200 Arab residents queried, 1,116 said that they preferred the former. A total of 84 respondents answered that they would prefer the latter, although they also noted that they would refuse to give up their Israeli identity cards. Only five answered that they would prefer to carry P.A. identity cards.
New Israel Fund - Jews and Arabs Working Together