“I used to be one of those people who took issue with the label of apartheid as applied to Israel. I was one of those people who could be counted on to argue that, while the country's settlement and occupation policies were anti-democratic and brutal and slow-dose suicidal, the word apartheid did not apply. I'm not one of those people any more.”

—  Bradley Burston

It's Time to Admit It. Israeli Policy Is What It Is: Apartheid (2015)

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