On 23/12/06, Argis Rohat argis.rohat@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, let's try this again:
This is the entire passage under the heading "Israel" in the article "Allegations of apartheid" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid
Does any objective person consider it to be NPOV?
ISRAEL "The phrase "Israeli apartheid" (or the terming of Israel an "apartheid state") is a controversial phrase used by some critics of Israel, who compare Israel's treatment of Palestinians with the treatment of blacks in apartheid-era South Africa. The majority of academics and journalists who have commented on the term are reported to deplore its use on the grounds that it is historically inaccurate, antisemitic, propaganda, and a political epithet used to justify terrorist attacks against Israel.
We have many articles detailing contentious labels applied by some people from a particular POV. To describe these labels encyclopaedically, to report them, as we do, is not showing POV ourselves.
Take a look at [[List of ethnic slurs]]: the reporting of these terms does not necessitate an institutional belief in any one of them.