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"Can you name the apartheid state?
A small state, established on the ruins of empire, that defines itself as the nation-state of one specific people. Its language, its symbols, its character are reserved by law for that people alone.
A quarter of its population belongs to a different ethnic group. Many of them were born there. Their parents were born there. And yet the state refuses them citizenship. Instead, it issues them a special passport marking them as something less. They cannot vote. They are barred from entire categories of employment. A permanent, legally defined underclass, sorted by ethnicity and by when their families arrived.
The state demands loyalty tests. Tens of thousands of members of this minority, elderly people among them, are ordered to prove their allegiance and their command of the ruling nation's language. Those who fail receive letters: leave within 30 days or be removed by force. Grandmothers who have lived in the same apartment for fifty years are told to pack. Those who refuse can be held in detention centers while the state processes their expulsion.
The state didn't stop there. It shut down the minority's media outlets. It abolished education in their mother tongue, down to the last school. It demolished their monuments and memorials. It stopped admitting members of their ethnic group at the border. Officials openly describe all of this as protecting the demographic and cultural security of the majority nation.
How many UN resolutions has this country received? How many ICJ hearings? How many sanctions bills are moving through Western parliaments right now?
How many students are camped on university lawns for the grandmothers in detention? How many celebrities have posted the infographic? How many artists have cancelled their shows there? How many cities have voted to divest?
When did you last see a documentary about the stateless quarter of its population? A hashtag? A march? A single foreign minister expressing even mild concern?
The answer to every one of these questions is zero.
The country is Latvia. EU member. NATO member. Funded by Brussels, defended by Western armies, criticized by no one. Everything above is happening right now, in 2026, inside the European Union.
And now a few questions for the apartheid crowd. You. The ones with the word ready to go, the flags, the chants, the infographics. Where are you on this one? You didn't know? Or you knew and it didn't fit?
You scream about second-class citizens. Latvia has them by law, a quarter of the country. Where's your tent?
You cry about people being expelled from their homes. Latvia is deporting pensioners over a language exam. Where's your hashtag?
You say you're against ethnostates. Here's one, official, funded by the EU. Where's your boycott list?
Someone handed you a word, told you where to point it, and you pointed. You didn't check the facts then. You're not checking them now.
Can you name the apartheid state #2?
A country in the Middle East where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live behind checkpoints. Army posts control who enters and leaves their camps. In some of them, even bringing in cement to fix a wall requires a military permit.
These Palestinians were born in this country. Their parents were born there. Their grandparents arrived in 1948. Four generations later, the state still refuses them citizenship. Not delays it. Refuses it. The rejection of their naturalization is written into the constitution itself.
They cannot vote. They cannot own property. A law passed in 2001 bars them from buying so much as an apartment. If a relative dies owning a home, they cannot inherit it. The law names no ethnicity, but everyone knows exactly who it was written for.
They are barred from dozens of professions. A Palestinian born in this country can graduate top of his class and still never practice as a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a pharmacist. The professional syndicates are closed to him by law. Those who do find work pay into social security and are legally excluded from most of its benefits.
The state provides them no public healthcare, no public education. Their children study in overcrowded schools run by a UN agency because the country that has hosted their families for 78 years will not let them into its own. They travel on special documents marking them as something other than citizens.
In 2007 the army leveled one of their camps entirely. Some 27,000 people displaced, an entire community flattened. Reconstruction dragged on for more than a decade under military restriction. No commission of inquiry. No war crimes investigation. Nothing.
How many UN resolutions has this country received for any of it? How many ICJ hearings? How many sanctions bills? How many campus encampments for the engineer who cannot join the syndicate, the grandmother who cannot inherit her son's apartment, the family that needed a permit for cement?
When did you last see the infographic? The hashtag? The artist cancelling a show? A single foreign minister expressing even mild concern?
Zero. Every answer is zero.
The country is Lebanon. The people are Palestinians. Everything above is the law today, and has been for decades, in the one country the apartheid crowd has never once looked at.
You, with the keffiyeh and the chants and the word loaded and ready. You say you march for Palestinians. Lebanon has kept them stateless for 78 years, banned from property, banned from professions, sealed behind checkpoints. Where's your tent?
You cry about permits and walls and military control. Lebanon requires army permission to carry building materials into a refugee camp. Where's your hashtag?
You say no one should be a second-class resident of the land they were born in. Lebanon wrote it into its constitution. Where's your boycott list?
Can you name the apartheid state #3?
A country that marched into a neighboring territory, claimed it as its own, and has occupied it ever since. The UN calls it a non-self-governing territory awaiting decolonization. The occupier calls it a province and dares the world to say otherwise.
It moved its own citizens in by the hundreds of thousands. Settlers now outnumber the native population inside their own homeland. The state hands them housing, salaries, fuel subsidies, tax breaks to relocate onto the land, a deliberate demographic flood engineered to make the occupation permanent and to win any vote before it is ever held. That referendum on self-determination, promised in 1991 and guaranteed by the UN? Blocked for thirty-five years. The occupier will not allow it, because it knows how the natives would vote.
To lock it in, the state built a wall. A sand berm seventeen hundred miles long, the longest militarized barrier on earth, longer than any wall you have been told to be outraged about. It is lined with millions of landmines and manned by tens of thousands of troops. It splits the territory in two and pens the natives who resisted into refugee camps in the desert on the far side, where a hundred and seventy thousand of them have rotted for two generations.
The natives who stayed live under occupation. Their protests are crushed. Their activists are jailed, tortured, sentenced to life and to decades by military courts for opposing the takeover. Their natural resources, the phosphates, the fisheries, are stripped and sold to foreign buyers while they see none of it. Foreign journalists are expelled. Human rights monitors are barred. The territory is sealed so the world cannot watch.
How many UN resolutions demanding that referendum have simply been ignored? How many ICJ opinions brushed aside? How many campus encampments for the hundred and seventy thousand in the desert camps? How many artists cancelled their shows? How many cities voted to divest? How many hashtags for the longest wall in the world?
Zero. Every last one, zero.
The country is Morocco. The land is Western Sahara. A textbook occupation, settlers planted to outnumber the natives, a promised vote buried for thirty-five years, the longest minefield wall on the planet, a people split between military rule and desert exile. And the state that did it signs normalization deals, hosts the summits, and gets its claim recognized by Western capitals one after another.
Now the questions for the apartheid crowd. You, with the word ready and the flags folded in your bag. You say settlers replacing a native population is the ultimate crime. Morocco flooded a whole country with them and won. Where's your tent?
You cry about walls and occupation. Morocco built the longest wall on earth and mined it. Where's your hashtag?
You demand referendums and self-determination. Here is a people promised a vote in 1991 and still waiting. Where's your march?
You never learned the name. Nobody handed it to you, so you never pointed the word at it.
"Can you name the apartheid state #4?
A Middle Eastern country whose constitution reserves the presidency for members of one religion, and enshrines that religion's jurisprudence as the main source of law. Everyone else lives there on sufferance.
Among them is a small mountain community, three percent of the population, rooted in the same hills for a thousand years. Born there. Parents born there. A thousand years of graves.
Last July, the state's army and security forces entered their province. In the space of a week, more than 1,700 people were murdered and nearly 200,000 driven from their homes, by the UN's own count. Monitors documented over 450 field executions, by name. Women. Children. Elderly men shot in their courtyards by soldiers in government uniform.
They entered the provincial hospital and killed twenty members of the medical staff. Doctors and nurses, executed at their posts.
They filmed themselves doing it. They pinned down elderly clerics and shaved off their mustaches, the mark of their faith, and posted the videos laughing. They threw men from balconies. Then militias summoned from across the country poured past government lines and torched nearly every home in 35 of the minority's villages. Not a riot. House by house, village by village, on camera.
Women were abducted. UN experts documented sexual violence and open calls to enslave the community's daughters. Families are still searching a year later.
Then came the siege. The province has been sealed behind checkpoints ever since, surviving on a trickle of Red Crescent convoys. Residents describe it in three phrases: no food, no medicine, no schools. That was the situation last summer. It is the situation this morning.
Soldiers prosecuted for any of it: effectively none. Human Rights Watch checked in January and found accountability nowhere. The executioners kept their uniforms.
And it wasn't the first time. Four months earlier, the same forces massacred more than a thousand members of a different minority on the coast. Weeks after that, over a hundred more from the mountain community were killed near the capital, incited by an audio clip the government itself admitted was fake.
ICJ genocide cases: zero.
ICC warrants: zero.
Campus encampments: zero. Cancelled concerts, divestment votes, celebrity infographics, marches: zero, zero, zero, zero.
Actually, worse than zero. This country was under sanctions. The world lifted them. The same year as the massacre.
The country is Syria. The minority is the Druze. The president is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who ran al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise and carried a ten million dollar American bounty on his head. Two months after the hospital, he had the podium at the UN General Assembly. Four months after, the White House. The Security Council took him off its terror list personally while Sweida starved behind his checkpoints.
You chanted about a siege for two years. Sweida has been sealed for one. Can you find it on a map without searching?
You said hospitals are the reddest of red lines. Name the hospital where twenty medical staff were executed.
You reposted casualty counts within minutes. The week the UN counted 1,700 dead, what were you posting?
You said burned villages are the signature of ethnic cleansing. Thirty-five of them, filmed by the men holding the lighters. Name one.
You marched for the abducted, when the abductors wore the right uniform. Druze women were kidnapped with public calls to enslave them. How many of their names do you know?
You demand arrest warrants for your villain's cabinet. This man had an actual terrorism bounty, and your governments didn't indict him. They delisted him. Where was your protest outside the summit?
When the executions started, exactly one air force on earth struck the killers to slow them down. The survivors now fly that country's flag in their town square.
It is the only country you call genocidal.""
It's almost like nothing has changed in the Muslim world since Mo.
