Red Pope, beg to differ on your interpretation of apartheid. Apartheid means an official policy of racial segregation. This is exactly what the US were doing until the Civil Rights movement. We all know the term apartheid from Nelson Mandela and South Africa but there are many countries who did and are practising apartheid to this day. It can be argued that the Israeli government are practising apartheid with policies such as not allowing Jews to sell property to Arabs for example.