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Love how everyone calls Israel an "apartheid state" instead of a settler colony like the US
It is an apartheid state too, both Palestinian people within Israel proper and the Israeli occupied territories live subject to different laws than Jewish Israeli citizens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel
https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/12/17/born-without-civil-rights/israels-use-draconian-military-orders-repress
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
But the goal isn't to keep them that way, it's to eradicate them for settlers to take the land, just like the US
Reservations have different laws too (the reason they have lots of casinos)
Jim Crow laws were more equal to apartheid in the states.
And apartheid has a real legal meaning in international agreements:
Which is much different than the US and the reservations.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_apartheid
What Israel is doing isn't apartheid, it's ethnic replacement and genocide, that's why it's comparable to the US