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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 on Israel and apartheid

What It Means

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About Bradley Burston

Bradley Burston (Hebrew: בראדלי בורסטון) is an American-born Israeli journalist. Burston is an English-language columnist for Haaretz and senior editor of the English-language website Haaretz.com. He writes a blog in English called "A Special Place in Hell".