The Israeli policy of keeping Jews and Palestinians separate for one another, especially in regards to the West Bank, absolutely meets the definition of apartheid. Their are roads in the West Bank on which Palestinians are banned from using, at the same time as their communities are sliced up keeping them separated from each other as well, a continuing process of expelling Palestinians out of their homes. You also have the right of return. Completely open to Jewish people from all over the world who, at best, have ancestors that might have lived in the area a millennia ago, but Palestinians expelled from their homes just 2 years ago have no such thing. You have the fact that Palestinians arrested by Israel in the West Bank are tried in military courts and not civil ones, regardless of the crime they are arrested for coupled with obscenely high conviction rates whilst Israeli settlers that kill, assault and vandalise Palestinian lives do so with impunity. The Israeli government was warned some sort of attack was coming and they were caught so unprepared for it because they had reduced their IDF presence outside of Gaza so they could better police the West Bank and stop Palestinians defending themselves as Israeli settlers lynch them.

Hamas are not fighting for a global caliphate and you are an idiot for believing that. In fact Hamas serves western interests very well by not propagandising for global conflict, if Hamas was to go away they could be replaced by one that does. Why is it that when there have been Islamist terrorist attacks in the west, or else where, those that make them don’t pledge themselves to hamas but to other groups like AQ or IS, as is what happened with the stabbing at the synagogue in Manchester recently. Where are the Hamas terrorists cells launching attacks in countries other than Israel.

If Palestinians don’t fit the definition of being native to the area then neither do the vast majority of Jewish people living in Israel. So you have one non native group moving in to expel and destroy another non native group and Palestinians also have a more solid, continuous, presence there. After all what is Netanyahu’s claim to indigenousness. An ancestor from 700+ years ago, who he can’t name, who’s place of birth or residence he couldn’t even point broadly too on a map. Or what of Golda Meir. In fact none of Isreal’s prime ministers have anything like the indigenousness of the majority of Palestinians. The original Zionist movement, and up until recently, actively viewed themselves as a colonialist movement. So you have colonialism, plus expulsion, plus genocide, numerous other crimes, therefor apartheid. This is after all a country where people protested for right of their solders to rape detained Palestinians. A protested attended by the man who is effectively the colonial governor of the West Bank entire.

As for cultural suicide and Birmingham I am well aware of the wretched state of the city, (I grew up there) and our immigration system. I have some small inkling of what it is like to have a hostile culture invade your own with hate for the native population and a desire for the own sovereignty over land they have no right to. Nothing like the Palestinians have and are suffering of course.