By Steve Demarest
On March 18, Students for Justice in Palestine will begin programming for Israeli Apartheid Week. To many, the very name of this weeklong series of events is deeply controversial. Although it did so for many years with the South African regime, it is disturbing to think that the American government could support a similarly racist and oppressive policies in the modern day.
But the reality is all too clear. Considering the situation in the West Bank, one is hard pressed to deny the similarities with the bantustan system in South Africa. Bantustans, formally labeled



