finds its best friend in the Middle East in an oppressive, apartheid government.

I know that some Jews have always been uncomfortable with the hardline State view, while others fully support the heavy hand and support strengthening its grip.

I don’t like that we pour billions of dollars in aid and weapons into such a government.

Save your breath before you call me antisemitic, I am not. But I am fairly strongly opposed to organized religion in general.

Israel, even under its current government, is the least oppressive, most progressive, least apartheid (whatever creative definition for the term you wish to use for it) state in the Middle East.

If the US foreign aid is to be governed by your standards, Israel should be the last Middle Eastern state to lose it. Feel free to suggest a better friend for the US in the Middle East.

Having said this, the above post has nothing to do with the OP, except as an opportunity to use the term "apartheid" as an insult rather than a fitting description.

But israel is not even remotely an apartheid government...
The palestinian ideology is an apartheid ideology

Any country that has had pabustinian members on the israeli supreme court cannot even be remotely described this way

Every warring faction has its own bureaucracy, its own IDs, its own access regime, no offers of help for passage throughout a particular swat of land one has to navigate, adding to countless tragedies occurring within the official borders of these states that are left unreported.

Does Democracy Now ever accuse these states of apartheid on this basis? The idea would seem ridiculous. Yet, it is not ridiculous when it comes to Israel, and Israel alone.

I know, I know, I shouldn't compare the democratic state of Israel with those other countries. Well, I should.

I am not comparing the autocratic Syria or dysfunctional Lebanon to Israel. Nor am I excusing Israel's occupation of the West Bank. I am comparing the unabashedly one-sided, prejudicial and borderline antisemitic coverage of Israel in the media of the radical left. In this particular case, my beef is not with any of these countries. It is with Democracy Now.

And listen intently. Not that I mind.

Not a single mention of "Syrian apartheid". No mention of "elaborate system of segregation and subjugation" at the hands of the "Syrian regime". No attempts to blame a tragic accident and its consequences on the "Syrian regime".

Mr. Chomsky is careful to call it the Asad regime. He making my point loud and clear.

with the "Palestinians are Semites so they cannot possibly be Anti-Semitic. Everyone with half a brain knows that Anti-Semite means anti-Jewish.

The same hatred filled racist based, evil dynamic is at work just the same.

It's not logical or moral.