Israel’s Election: Arab Voters Undercut the Apartheid Charge

We already know that Israel is history’s most inept genocidaire. If its critics were right and the Jewish state had set out to exterminate, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people, engineering an outbreak of childhood obesity in a war-torn territory in which the population experienced more growth in 2025 than almost any other country is a terrible way to go about it.

Well, it turns out that the Israelis can’t get apartheid right either:

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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We already know that Israel is history’s most inept genocidaire. If its critics were right and the Jewish state had set out to exterminate, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people, engineering an outbreak of childhood obesity in a war-torn territory in which the population experienced more growth in 2025 than almost any other country is a terrible way to go about it.

Well, it turns out that the Israelis can’t get apartheid right either:

About the Author

Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.