State Department gets awful close to saying… ‘apartheid’

At the Forward, Josh Nathan-Kazis reports on the State Department's report on human rights in Israel:

An annual report by the U.S. Department of State on human rights in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza paints a stark picture of human rights conditions among minority populations in Israel, and Palestinian populations in the West Bank and Gaza.
“Principal human rights problems were institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against Arab citizens, Palestinian residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip… non-Orthodox Jews, and other religious groups,” begins the segment dealing with Israel and the Golan Heights.

Flash to Jeopardy, "Human rights for $1000, Alex." What is "institutional, legal and societal discrimination" against a class of people based on their ethnicity or race? Does the State Department realize what it is saying? Has anyone else noticed?

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