Israel’s apartheid and the parable of the democratic Jewish state Last week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem in calling Israel’s abusive and merciless system of domination over the Palestinians an apartheid, which quantities to against the law in opposition to humanity. Predictably, Israel and its supporters condemned the “libellous” and “anti-Semitic” report, and rejected its detailed and well-documented findings as biased distortions. And like the 2 reviews by B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch, it appears not one of the critics bothered to learn the 280 pages Amnesty produced, not to...