Rex Kerr
1 min readApr 29, 2024

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Your short version argues against claims of fact with an argument from authority and nothing more--that is, it is logical fallacy. Are you sure you want to do this?

The long version contests the facts in a proper argument. (One might disagree with some premises, or disagree that the evidence is sufficient to meet the threshold one should demand before using the word "apartheid", but it's not by construction a fallacious argument.) So it's clearly not because you have nothing to say on the matter.

Maybe you want to update the short version to not simply be an argument from authority? While you're at it, maybe it would also be good to clarify whether by "Palestinian" you ever mean "Palestinian citizen of Israel" or only "citizen of Gaza and the West Bank of Palestinian ethnicity but without Israeli citizenship". Without doing so it's unclear at which points you are directly rebutting the Hasbara claim about "Arab Israelis", and at which points you are making additional claims about not-Israeli-citizen Palestinians that you think separately justify the charge of apartheid even if the Hasbara claims about "Arab Israelis" are true.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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