The racist, apartheid nature of Israel

It's controversial (mostly in the United States) to dare to suggest that Zionism=racism (as many U.N. resolutions have asserted), or that Israeli actions equal apartheid. If you think those equations (or analogies, if you prefer that to "equations", which is always dangerous when talking history and not mathematics, since things in history are rarely exactly the same) are invalid, then please tell me what the word "Jewish" is doing in this article, which comes not from al Jazeera or the Iranian News Service, but from AP (and, judging from the author's name and base of work -- Josef Federman, based in Jerusalem -- quite possibly written by an Israeli Jew):

Israel said Monday it will build more than 200 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements.

Obviously, it isn't news that the Israeli settlements on the West Bank are for Jews only, Palestinians keep out, go to the back of the bus. But when you see it in print in an article like that, whose point isn't at all to discuss those apartheid, racist policies, but simply to describe the latest development, it really drives it home. At least it did for me.

Incidentally, "settlements" are not "Jewish." Settlements are buildings and roads and sewers and electric lines. Settlements don't worship God, or light candles on Chanukah. Imagine if that sentence were written accurately: "Israel said Monday it will build more than 200 new homes in West Bank settlements for Jews only." It's even more striking in that form, isn't it? And no surpise the author doesn't write it that way.