Ashkelon a den of apartheid?

On Tuesday night, the city council of Sacramento, California will meet to decide whether to enter into a sister city relationship with rocket shelled Ashkelon in southern Israel. Opponents are attacking Ashkelon as an 'apartheid' city, claiming that Arabs and Jews do not enjoy equal rights in the city (by law they do) and claiming that Arabs were expelled from Ashkelon during the 1948 War of