Noam Chomsky: What Israel’s Doing Is ‘Much Worse’ than Apartheid

Noam Chomsky recently appeared on Democracy Now! to talk about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and he made the assertion that “in the occupied territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid.” He said it’s not fair to compare Israel’s actions to what happened in South Africa those years ago, because it lets Israel off the hook.

Chomsky argued that whereas in South Africa, they needed the black population to be their workers, and so as bad as conditions were, “They tried to keep them strong enough to do the work that they needed for the country.”

However, he said, Israel doesn’t view Palestinians the same way.

“They just don’t want them. They want them out, or at least in prison. And they’re acting that way. That’s a very striking difference, which means that the apartheid analogy, South African apartheid, to the Occupied Territories is just a gift to Israeli violence. It’s much worse than that. If you look inside Israel, there’s plenty of repression and discrimination.”

Watch the video below, via Democracy Now!:

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