If racism didn`t already exist as a tool in overtly political areas (that is, identity issues not merely reducible to economic factors) it would be an uncomfortable fit to trot out in a more prosaically economic challenge.
(Call it the `Bonhoeffer` phenomenon -- who cares when it`s the Arabs....)
And, of course, if racism wasn`t so prevalent in Israel in general it wouldn`t have a toehold in political discourse either.
The plus side to calling Israel an apartheid state (I`ve reverted my focus to the primary, political sphere) is that apartheid resolved peacefully, so there is hope in that. |
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