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Feel free to email me your response, if that would be better. Thanks very much, [[User:ProfGray|ProfGray]] ([[User talk:ProfGray|talk]]) 14:53, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
:I don't think I could be of much help. I pay very little attention to I/P dispute resolution, RfCs or the relevant wikiproject pages, which I don't even have bookmarked.As for Arbcom and the sanctions system, I pay attention when I'm dragged into them of course, 5 times over the last year. Generally, as I see it, the conflicts are between people who go to some trouble to read widely in the topic area, and people who are offended by scholarship or informed opinion, and will go to great lengths to argue on talk pages, or revert what they dislike, often captiously. The point was egregiously thrown into relief in the immense effort, by editors who knew nothing of the topic literature (see the AfD and the talk pages) to change the title of the article [[Zionism, race and genetics]]([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_conceptions_of_Jewish_identity_in_Zionism here]. They were successful, i.e. the editors who didn't read the sources managed to strongaremstrongarm by numbers a change of title by sheer attrition and the disattention of other editors who wandered in. From an administrative POVperspective, on the other hand, both sides were culpable of hammering their points of view: it didn't matter that one 'side' read several hundred pages, at least, of documentation, while the other side just kibitzed the paraphrases of the contrentcontent on the talk page, quarrelling with, effectively, the scholarship.
:As to Israel and apartheid, I disapproved of naming Israel an apartheid state for several years because (a) Israel is one thing - the discriminations there bear no close analogy with the former South Africa's (b) the [[hafrada]]/apartheid policies in the Palestinian territories do resemble SA's, designedly, as indeed was shown in the background history of Israel's bantustanization of what we euphemistically called the [[Palestinian enclaves]], but those territories are not in Israel (c) but when [[B'tselem]], [[Human Rights Watch]] and [[Amnesty International]] over a period of a year and a half (2021-2022) all unanimously dropped their decades-long opposition to the use of the term and put out three detailed reports underlining that Israel's practices were apartheid, then I approved of using it as our article does now. The reason was simple, the major authorities on human rights endorsed a view which I entertained privately but which hadn't for decades any substantive grounds in mainstream sourcing, being considered 'controversial'.