Palestinians have been accusing Israel of apartheid for years. But in recent months, a leading international human rights watchdog used the term “apartheid,” catapulting it into the mainstream. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum asks people with firsthand experience of apartheid in South Africa what they make of the analogy.
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