Calling Israel an apartheid state is an insult to black South Africans

[Little Tich]

1. Being a law student is obviously no protection against bad argumentation.

The author of the OP isn't even touching the reason for the Apartheid analogy; there are two separate legal systems for Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank. The Palestinian have no civil rights whatsoever - they're only awarded protection from harm according to the rules of the Geneva Convention, no more no less. The Jewish Israelis who live in the settlements have full civil rights and access to the resources and the land, which is more or less denied to Palestinians. For example, state land in the West Bank and Jerusalem is explicitly only for Jewish use. The Palestinian GDP per capita is US$2,811, while the Israeli figure is US$37,206. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita ) Palestinians are sentenced in military courts with a 99.74% conviction, (http://www.haaretz.com/nearly-100-of-all-military-court-cases-in-west-bank-end-in-conviction-haaretz-learns-1.398369) while settlers go to the civil courts with the high standards of a democratic country. Palestinians in the West Bank are only allowed 1/3 of the amount of water the settlers get:


Source: http://www.btselem.org/water/discrimination_in_water_supply

In fact, I don't know of any circumstances where Palestinians are awarded equal rights to those of Israeli settlers.