Second problem re POV on Israel - WikiEN-l

23 Dec 2006

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid
The introduction to the article is also very POV:
"The term *apartheid* commonly refers to South African apartheid , a former
official policy of political, legal, and economic racial
discrimination against nonwhites.
The application of the term to situations other than apartheid in South
Africa is controversial and disputed, and is regarded as a political
epithet."
1) The intro suggests that any use of the term apartheid to
describe situations outside of South Africa is a "political epithet" when 3
of 4 sources provided only refer to the use of the term apartheid to
describe Israel
and the fourth says "cultural apartheid" is an epithet.
2) the intro seems to assert as a fact that the term is a "politcial
epithet" when in fact that's a POV.
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Does any objective person consider it to be NPOV?
*Israel* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid
 *Main article: Allegations of Israeli apartheid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheidhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid

The phrase "Israeli apartheid" (or the terming of Israelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelan "apartheid state") is a controversial phrase used by some critics of
Israel, who compare Israel's treatment of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidPalestinianshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinianswith the treatment of blacks in apartheid-era South Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid[82]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-PilgerThe majority of academics and journalists who have commented on the term are
reported to deplore its use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid[83]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Adamon the grounds that it is historically inaccurate,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidantisemitichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid[84]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Pulzerpropaganda,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid[83]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Adamand a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidpolitical epithethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_epithetused to justify
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidterrorist attacks
against Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid[85]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Phillips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid
For one thing the sentence states as fact that the term "Israeli
apartheid" is "*historically inaccurate, *antisemitichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid, propaganda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidand a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidpolitical epithethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_epithetused to justify
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidterrorist attacks
against Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid" something a
wikipedia article should not be asserting. Secondly the paragaraph is not
neutral and strongly weighted with the view that Israeli apartheid is not an
acceptable term.
Several editors have attempted to correct this paragraph's bias but they
have been blocked by a larger number of determined editors pushing a POV
against the term.