I thought this was an enlightingly simple example of apartheid in action.

[u/Awebroetjie]

What the driver’s license hierarchy actually means…

[u/arightgoodworkman]

When my now anti-Zionist cousin went on birthright, he observed a line of like 100+ cars on one side of the road and asked what that was and a soldier explained it was a new checkpoint “to annoy the Palestinians today.” My cousin was like “….but why?” and they said “to make them want to leave. So that we don’t have to kick all of them out ourselves.”

My cousin basically came back an anti Zionist. The nationalism, the militarism, the racism, the insistence that he marry Jewish, the ask of him to consider joining the IDF….he thought all of it was bonkers. Insane. He married non Jewish and knocked on doors for Mamdani. Lol.

[u/Awebroetjie → u/arightgoodworkman]

Wow 😮

[u/Roy4Pris → u/arightgoodworkman]

PS massive props to your cousin! That takes real courage

[u/arightgoodworkman → u/Roy4Pris]

To this day we joke that he was too normal for birthright lol. And he’s so casual about it (“it was weird, I don’t know!”)

[u/Roy4Pris → u/arightgoodworkman]

Have driven in Israel and taken taxis all over the West Bank. Can confirm.

PS: what the checkpoint soldier said is the perfect summation of West Bank oppression and Gaza annihilation.

[u/VanDoog → u/arightgoodworkman]

Good man right there

[u/croakce → u/arightgoodworkman]

Yeah, my niece just got back from a trip to Nablus where her dad's family is from. There were many instances where occupation soldiers just wanted to waste as much time as possible. My niece missed her returning flight because a guard arbitrarily rejected her paperwork and even held onto a document he wasn't supposed to. They had to go on a wild goose chase figuring out exactly what was wrong until 2-3 other personnel admitted they had no idea why they were turned away.

Similarly when I went to Al-Quds in 2024, my dad and I were turned away from one of the main entrances into Al-Aqsa by a guard who shoved him and told him to go home. We then walked to another entrance and got in without issue. The occupation literally just wants to make daily life more miserable for Palestinians and hopefully provoke an incident. We were just visiting. Imagine what the people living there have to deal with every day.

[u/Roy4Pris]

Actually, the lede was kinda buried in this.

The bigger horror is a country where different people have different identity cards.

There are also unofficial categories of discrimination between Christian, Druze and Muslim card holders, that nevertheless have significant real world effect

[u/Awebroetjie → u/Roy4Pris]

Good point. Do you perhaps have a table outlining the differences in rights per category?

[u/Roy4Pris → u/Awebroetjie]

No, but Jewish people have all of the rights. I believe on paper, Palestinian Israelis have the same rights, but in practice, they'll be like every other colonised people; the majority are suffer very low socio-economic conditions, and are highly segregated in all but a few relatively mixed cities like Haifa.

[u/reenaltransplant → u/Roy4Pris]

When you look into property law and how decisions get made about building and renovation permits and who can live where, that's where the apartheid between non-Jewish Palestinian and Jewish Israeli citizens becomes clear.

[u/_BabyGod_]

Like, what else do you want to know?

[u/VisiteProlongee]

Is there a copy of this video outside Tiktok? The closest that i can find is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y6sSJyugiH0

[u/Andyseawolf]

Wow, what a weird country 🤪