By: Jonathan Mackenzie, Staff Writer

For the past six years, an annual event known as “Israel Apartheid Week” has been held on campuses across North America, including right here at York University. The goal of the week’s organizers is to promote the idea that Israel is somehow equivalent to apartheid-era South Africa, where a minority of whites ran a racist government that legally discriminated against the country’s majority black population. This analogy is completely false and is an insult to those South Africans who suffered under the former apartheid regime.