My brain must already be on Thanksgiving vacation. The headline does not seem to square with the opening paragraph.
Has the New York Times ever railed against the apartheid that exists within the home country to Islam, Saudi Arabia?
There is exactly one worthwhile thing in the NYT — the crossword puzzle. The rest of the NYT poses a real problem. It’s made out of paper so should be ok to stuff directly into the recycle bin. But it contains pure sh@t and the ecology rules say we shouldn’t put organic waste into recycling. Which can to dispose the analyst?!?!?!?!??????? We definitely want to get rid of it ( after salvaging the crossword ASAP!) Alas! Modern life is so perplexing !
In most parts of the world, each nation-state has a "nation" or ethnic group that the state is built around. It is in essence a very large extended family.
In Croatia, for example, that nation is the Croats, 90% of the population. In Vietnam it's the Viets, 85%. In Ukraine it's the Ukrainians, 77%. In Iran it's the Persians, 61%. In Burma the Burmans, 68%.
The rest of the population of these countries is made up of various minority groups. How these minorities are treated may vary from essentially identical to that of the majority "national" group to abysmal.
While the minorities may be legally citizens of the state and be well treated, they simply aren't members of the "nation" in the same way as the majority is.
Now there are other types of nation-states. Examples include the European daughter-states of the Americans and Australasia. All citizens of the states of USA, Mexico or New Zealand are members of the nation because there wasn't really a "nation" in existence before the state came into being. There are ethnic conflicts in all these countries, but there is not a "nation" and then minorities. In most of these countries the people feel a strong sense of national identity.
Then there are all those countries that came into existence when the European empires fell apart. The boundaries of those countries include a variety of peoples, often with absolutely nothing in common except the fact that they happened to get enclosed within borders created by confrences back in Europe a century or two ago and that they hate each other. Their sense of personal identity with the nation is often weak at best. Examples: Congo and just about every other country in Africa, Iraq, Indonesia. Some of these countries seem to be developing a sense of national identity, like the Indians, for example. Others, not so much.
I think you can make a very good claim that the Israelis are an "artificial" nation created for a single ethnic group. But then so are a great many other "nation-states" around the world.
The Israelis treat their national minorities a great deal more fairly than many countries.