Word: apartheid
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...situation, while creatively framing the same article with a conversion into a “white” vs. “brown” struggle (Op-Ed, “An Ideology of Oppression,” April 11). At one point, Chaudhry even compares the situation to apartheid. This is a distortion of the fact that most Israelis and Palestinians are indistinguishable physically...
...Sternhell observes, writing that the government “is no longer ashamed to speak of war when what they are really engaged in is colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by the white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks in South Africa during the apartheid...
...South Africa's Nelson Mandela is internationally regarded as an unimpeachable moral giant today, but it's worth remembering that his African National Congress fought a 29-year guerrilla war against the apartheid regime which at one point included a series of terrorist attacks on civilians in shopping malls and bars. Yet it was with the same organization that the white minority regime finally negotiated the transition to democratic majority rule...
...interests in Wright developed while living in Austin, Texas where she said she saw apartheid in America. She felt there was a need for a more modern biography of his life...
Goodman, who lives in London with his wife Sue, a South African choreographer, knows all about relating theater to society. He led community projects around London in his youth and then spent the 1970s in apartheid-riven South Africa with Sue, taking theater companies to the townships. Despite some quality film cameos (remember the sniffy concierge in Notting Hill?) the stage remains his home. "You can feel the impact you have on people," he says. "It's humbling." Now, at 51, he is set for perhaps the most humbling giant step of his career, one that may finally make people...