Before engaging in the discussion of whether or not there’s an apartheid regime here, I suggest we ask ourselves a different question: If we were genuinely privileged subjects in an apartheid regime, would we be capable of recognizing it?
After years of studying and getting familiar with the way in which such a regime’s rationale acts on one’s soul and mindset, I am certain that it’s impossible to fathom what apartheid means without taking into account two of its essential components: fear and blindness. These components are so basic to this regime that when you live in its shadow, any thought, idea or conversation are necessarily tainted by them. Apartheid as a type of regime, as a rationale driving a state’s apparatus, is a sophisticated trap that grips all its subjects, even the ones benefiting from an inherent advantage.
The apartheid regime in South Africa was created by white Afrikaners on the backdrop of a national narrative of annihilation and heroism. In their narrative, the conquering British tried, cruelly but unsuccessfully, to exterminate them. Indeed, at the beginning of the 20th century, the British built the first concentration camps in history, in which families of Boers, as Afrikaners were called before their national identity was formed, were left to die of hunger or disease. The establishment of the apartheid regime in South
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Yuli Novak | 12 Feb 2022