Amichai Magen takes on a new Stanford University group calling itself Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel. Writing in the Stanford Daily, Magen ably addresses what apartheid is and isn’t:
The analogy between apartheid and Israel is absurd. The revival of national sovereignty in the Jewish homeland is not a manifestation of European colonialism, in contrast to the white settlers (Afrikaans, English and others) who created Johannesburg and Pretoria. Jews are indigenous to the Middle East as is the Jewish national language, Hebrew. Anyone who has ever visited Israel knows that it is one of the most diverse multi-ethnic democracies in the world.
