Black Students Want To Reclaim The Word "Apartheid"

A group of black students want to take back the use of the term Apartheid

An African American students group took out ads in college newspapers blasting "Israel Apartheid week" organizers for abusing the term.


In a full page entitled "words matter" and appearing in the newspapers on April 7, Vanguard Leadership Group accuses Students for Justice in Palestine of a "false and deeply offensive" characterization of Israel.

"SJP has chosen to manipulate rather than inform with this illegitimate analogy," Vanguard says in the ad, signed by its members attending a number of historically black colleges. "We request that you immediately stop referring to Israel as an apartheid society and to acknowledge that the Arab minority in Israel enjoys full citizenship with voting rights and representation in the government."

Do you think we can now expect a group like the Black Panthers to protest the co-opting of the term "militant" by the media to describe terrorists?

After all, when was the last time we heard Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists called "freedom fighters"?

Then again, I see that the phrase "Hezbollah politicians" has been in use for a while, and no one has protested the association of the word "politician" with the word "terrorist"...

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