A miserable Mideastern misnomer
A “war of words”—the back and forth of slogans and chants—often foregoes proper analysis of the grammar of a dispute. “Israeli apartheid” is one such slogan, frequently used but poorly analyzed. The syllogism reads: apartheid is racist. Israel is akin to South African Apartheid. Thus, Israel is racist. However, such reasoning is problematic because conjoining […]
