User:Leifern/Political rhetoric

(This is a personal essay; feel free to leave comments on the Talk page, but don't edit the article itself. If you do, I'll mercilessly revert)

In the spirited debates about articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, some editors are complaining about what they believe is a double standard. Why is it, they ask, that articles like New antisemitism and Pallywood are allowed to stand, when Allegations of Israeli apartheid run into such resistance?

The reason relates to content and titles.

Let's start with Allegations of Israeli apartheid. Apartheid is a specific crime, namely a legally sanctioned system of separating citizens of the same country on the basis of race. It is a specific crime.