Research Fellow of the FDD, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, has detailed in a tweet the reasons Israel cannot be attacked for being Apartheid. NEWSRAEL is copying it here exactly as he posted.
To Israel haters trolling me: I don't know you, so your insults don't bother me. I've heard it all, Uncle Tom, sellout, etc. If you want a response, speak substance.
To substance debaters, please understand:
1- Issues like apartheid or ethnic cleansing assume that one country with one set of nationals, two ethnicities. But here we have two nations: A sovereign Israel and two Palestinian governments in West Bank (minus Area C and EJ) and Gaza.
2- Nature of Palestinian governments (democracy or not), rights of Palestinians, are determined by Palestinians, not Israel. If Israel must grant Palestinians rights, they'd have to pledge allegiance to Israeli state/flag. But Palestinians don't want to be Israelis. They want their own national identity. So please, think before you make nonsense Apartheid assumptions. Apartheid assumes one nation, and these are clearly two.
3- Liberty of Palestinians is granted by their own governments. If you are Palestinian and cannot eat publicly in Ramadan, or harassed for being LGBTQ, or suffer honor killing if you are a girl dating a boy, or thrown in prison or killed if you express opinion that disagrees with the rest (such as calling for peace with Israel), all of these rights are repressed by Palestinian rulers of Palestinians and there is nothing that Israel can do to grant Palestinians such liberty.
4- Freedom of movement of Palestinians in West Bank is hampered by frequency of Palestinian attacks on Israeli non-combatants. In 1987, before attacks started, a Palestinian could drive from Ramallah to Gaza uninterrupted. If Palestinian militants ever surrender their arms, Israeli checkpoints will disappear.
5- We all agree that Palestinians deserve a better life than the one they have now (which is better than Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia).
What we disagree on is "whose responsibility it is to give Palestinians such better life?"
If you’re Arab native, you’d know that problem is within. In Palestinian case, maybe start by convincing Fatah and Hamas to talk to each another for first time since 2008.
If Palestinians cannot live together in one government, how do you think a binational state with Israelis is possible?
Also, except for Palestinian-Americans, no Palestinian wants a binational state, most Palestinians want one state, Palestine, which means destroying Israel, and this is the problem.
Source: Hussain Abdul-Hussain Research Fellow FDD