re israel an apartheid state in article spam maths adelaide edu au jaskew spam maths adelaide edu au joseph askew writes in article smllm m cville srv wam umd edu aap wam umd edu alberto adolfo pinkas writes i consider that defining the belonging to a nation that claims the right to have a state based on religious belief is a form of racism although i don t want to muddy the waters unnecessarily i disagree any discrimination based on religion is not and cannot be racist unless the sole qualification for religious membership is racial in the same way in which antisemite means anti jewish and not anti all persons of who are semite a form of racism means a form of segregation against all those who are different based on the religious identification aap joseph askew
