🧩 BND Motif Index · M1281
Apartheid state
A state is said to keep two sets of laws, full rights for one people and lesser or none for another, so it is an apartheid state and not the democracy it claims to be, and the charge is answered with the rights the other people do have.
- 4claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Second-class citizens
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (5 left-leaning, 1 center, 4 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- 🫏 The Young Turks (podcast) 2 claims
- ⚖️ Breaking Points 1 claim
- 🐘 Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 1 claim
- 🐘 Fox News Rundown 1 claim
- 🫏 HasanAbi (podcast) 1 claim
- 🫏 Know Your Enemy 1 claim
- 🫏 The Bulwark Podcast 1 claim
- 🐘 The Dan Bongino Show 1 claim
- 🫏 The Majority Report (podcast) 1 claim
- 🐘 Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words 1 claim
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Arabs are only free to vote in Israel” “buying bombs and tanks that have been used to do genocide and apartheid” “deprived of the right to have rights” “living in their ancestral homeland but lacking voting rights to the assembly that rules over them. Apartheid.” “Settler colonialism and apartheid in action.” “the apartheid that the world likes to accuse us of” “they have full rights to vote, full representation” “they weren't an Apartheid state because Arabs were allowed to vote in their country” “this is not a democracy. This is an apartheid state.” “You can't be an apartheid state and say that you're a democracy.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-07 “The U.S. government unconditionally subsidizes a foreign government used to commit genocide and apartheid.” 2
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-28 “Israel is not an apartheid state because Arab citizens have full rights to vote and representation.” 3
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-29 “Israel is an apartheid state rather than a democracy.” 6
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-29 “Israel is an apartheid state practicing settler colonialism by denying voting rights to Palestinians in their ancestral homeland.”
M1281 · first seen 2026-10-29 · last 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works