Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Don’t Accuse Israel of Apartheid [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)that does not preclude it from existing in another part.
In Northern Ireland, for a long time Catholics were entirely precluded from entering most branches of the public service. In the rest of Britain, anti-catholic bigotry had died off a long time ago. The fact that there was no serious anti-Catholic bigotry elsewhere did not mean that it ceased to exist in northern Ireland.
In the US, at the same time that Jim Crow laws were in force in the south, there were bastions of progressive sentiment in the north, including colleges and hospitals were black graduates were admitted. That didnt necessarily make it any better for Blacks in the south.
There are bastions of progressive sentiment in Israel as well, but that does not change the fact that the situation in places such as Hebron, for example, is nothing short of apartheid.