Apartheid  \ ə-pärt’hīt’, -hāt’\   n.
A policy of segregation and social and economic discrimination by one group over another group. Separation.
[Afrikaans : Dutch apart, separate (from French à part, apart; see apart) + Dutch -heid, -hood.]

Apartheid is a Dutch Afrikaaner word that describes the institutionalized racist and segregated system that existed in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Under Apartheid, a system of legalized racial segregation and discrimination existed where the minority white population, which held all legal, political and administrative power, suppressed the human and civil rights of the majority black population.

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The American Muslims for Palestine, a national grassroots education organization, denounces in the harshest possible terms the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound by members of the Israeli military on Sunday.

The Al Aqsa Mosque Compound, also known as Haram al-Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary, houses Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.  More than 200 Israeli forces and police stormed the compound early Sunday, injuring at least 20 Palestinians who were among those protecting Al Aqsa from Jewish threats of takeover during the Jewish holiday of Purim, according to published reports. Soldiers used rubber-coated bullets and tear gas against the Palestinians. A 40-year-old woman, Fatima Al-Barsi, suffered a broken leg when Israeli soldiers attacked her as she was trying to enter the mosque, according to Maan News Agency.

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