Apartheid Week

The seventh annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” is being held on university campuses across the United States this week to renew the call for destroying the Jewish State—if not by military aggression or by terrorism, then by what its organizers call “Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).”

What is little appreciated by those who toss around the term apartheid so loosely, however, is that the most passionate believers in “apartness” are Arab Muslims. They are so deeply committed to purging “Muslim land” of any Jewish presence at all that they will decapitate a three-month-old child in her bed. Apartheid is the official policy of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which will not permit Jews to reside there; it is the popular custom in the rest of the Arab world:

Country	Population
Egypt	73,365,915 Muslims        200 Jews
Algeria	32,333,219 Muslims        100 Jews
Morocco	32,069,316 Muslims      5,700 Jews
Iraq	29,672,300 Muslims         50 Jews
Saudi Arabia	25,731,776 Muslims          0 Jews
Yemen	21,119,004 Muslims        200 Jews
Syria	15,451,798 Muslims        100 Jews
Tunisia	9,762,350 Muslims      1,000 Jews
Libya	6,461,454 Muslims          0 Jews
Jordan	5,702,783 Muslims          0 Jews

By contrast, at last count Israel was home to 5,839,764 Jews and 1,229,424 Muslims. About 16.5% of the population is Muslim, that is. There are sixty times more Muslims in the Jewish State than there are Jews in the entire Arab League.

Israeli apartheid? No one should expect the Arab propagandists behind the anti-Israel demonstrations on campus to respect the truth, but perhaps the casual observers, students and faculty, might take a second look at the numbers. Or perhaps they might want to consider what the organizers of “Israeli Apartheid Week” really have in mind when they speak of apartheid.