Traveling from South Africa to Israel during vacation makes for interesting reflection, particularly in light of recent debates over what constitutes apartheid. The debate has hovered above Brandeis the last month thanks to former President Jimmy Carter, and it will splash down next week when Carter comes to speak on campus.
It was Carter who sparked the recent apartheid debate with his book accusing the Israeli government of oppression toward Palestinians of the same kind that was infamously leveled on South Africa's people from the late-1940s to mid-1990s.
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