The debate scheduled to be held on 4 May in the French National Assembly on a resolution condemning the ‘institutionalisation by the State of Israel of an apartheid regime consequent upon its colonial policies’ has aroused outraged protests, roars of indignation and predictable accusations of anti-Semitism. These reactions can often be explained by an ignorance of the colonial reality of Zionism. Apartheid? How dare you? The president of the Republic himself has scolded those who ‘misuse (...)