User:Coroebus/Pallywood/Allegations of Israeli Apartheid

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These are some quotes from the discussion page of the Allegations of Israeli Apartheid family of articles, compare and contrast with the arguments used in the current article. --Coroebus 20:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


The article is about the phenomenon, not the phrase, so any vaguely related link should be included:

This article is about a phrase, it's not a soapbox for an argument. Please find sources promoting that phrase, not anything remotely related.

Jayjg (talk) 20:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

It's about the phrase Israeli apartheid, not about various arguments people use to vilify Israel. Please ensure the article is kept on subject, thanks.

Jayjg (talk) 20:19, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


Don't say it is used by right-wingers:

The article seems to focus on the fact that non-notables like student demonstrators use the term, but fails to note its prevalent use among neo-Nazis and anti-Semites such as David Duke and Jew Watch. I've rectified that. Let's make sure we give the reader the complete picture of the phrase's use.

Jayjg (talk) 20:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


There shouldn't be a focus on news or academic sources, bloggers use it:

Wikipedia really shouldn't have articles on POV pejorative political terms...

Jayjg (talk) 22:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

But there aren't very many reliable sources which use the term; there are many unreliable sources which use it, and some reliable sources which refer to unreliable sources using it, but not much about it in the peer-reviewed literature, and even then it's mostly from extremely biased sources (e.g. Israel Shahak, notorious anti-Zionist). From what I can tell, it's almost exclusively used as an epithet, and reliable sources never use the phrase. As for Tutu, his one off-the-cuff statement is neither here nor there; while he may know a lot about apartheid, he's mostly a figurehead, and is no sort of expert about Israel or the Palestinian situation.

Jayjg (talk) 02:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

5 [Web-of-Science] Articles, many from Palestinians or notorious anti-Zionists? That's not much, is it?

Jayjg (talk) 02:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)