Pro-Palestinian ads misrepresent apartheid
By: Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe | 05/15/13 5:46 PM
Special to The S.F. Examiner
anti-Israel Muni ad
Courtesy of Muni ads
These new Muni ads compare Israel's treatment of Palestine to apartheid.
On my recent trip to San Francisco, I was deeply disturbed to learn about the posters in The City accusing Israel of apartheid. As a black South African who lived under apartheid, this system was implemented in South Africa to subjugate people of color and deny them a variety of their rights. In my view, Israel cannot be compared to apartheid in South Africa. Those who make the accusation expose their ignorance of what apartheid really is.
Apartheid was a legal system of segregation and oppression based on skin color, with a very small white minority dominating over the vast majority of people of color.
As a black South African under apartheid, I, among other things, could not vote, nor could I freely travel the landscape of South Africa. No person of color could hold high government office. The races were strictly segregated at sports arenas, public restrooms, schools and on public transportation. People of color had inferior hospitals, medical care and education. If a white doctor was willing to take a black patient, he had to examine him or her in a back room or some other hidden place.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: Pro-Palestinian ads misrepresent apartheid | Anonymous | Op Eds | San Francisco Examiner
By: Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe | 05/15/13 5:46 PM
Special to The S.F. Examiner
anti-Israel Muni ad
Courtesy of Muni ads
These new Muni ads compare Israel's treatment of Palestine to apartheid.
On my recent trip to San Francisco, I was deeply disturbed to learn about the posters in The City accusing Israel of apartheid. As a black South African who lived under apartheid, this system was implemented in South Africa to subjugate people of color and deny them a variety of their rights. In my view, Israel cannot be compared to apartheid in South Africa. Those who make the accusation expose their ignorance of what apartheid really is.
Apartheid was a legal system of segregation and oppression based on skin color, with a very small white minority dominating over the vast majority of people of color.
As a black South African under apartheid, I, among other things, could not vote, nor could I freely travel the landscape of South Africa. No person of color could hold high government office. The races were strictly segregated at sports arenas, public restrooms, schools and on public transportation. People of color had inferior hospitals, medical care and education. If a white doctor was willing to take a black patient, he had to examine him or her in a back room or some other hidden place.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: Pro-Palestinian ads misrepresent apartheid | Anonymous | Op Eds | San Francisco Examiner
