Apartheid

A voice from apartheid: South Africa's Regent Xami’s calls for indigenous support of Israel

Xami, who lived through South Africa’s apartheid, offered invaluable testimony on the misuse of that term against Israel and the deep sense of kinship many indigenous nations feel toward Jews.

Regent Xami in Jerusalem’s Old City, with the Western Wall behind him.
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil attends a pro-Palestinian protest outside Columbia University, in Manhattan in New York City, US, October 7, 2025

Columbia University denies campus access to activist Mahmoud Khalil over safety concerns

Champion Israeli judoka Peter Paltchik pushes back against efforts to ban Israeli athletes (illustrative).

Can boycotts break Israel? Inside 20 years of BDS - from the editor

Muhammad Gazawi as Khaled in 'The Sea,' premiering at the Other Israel Film Festival on November 6, 2025.

The Sea: Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s film explores West Bank struggles, wins Ophir Awards - interview


Why didn’t human rights groups give Israel’s center-left a break? - analysis

What worries human rights groups and critics in the West the most is an Israeli center-left government that is inclusive of Arabs and which might actually come to an agreement with the Palestinians.

Outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid during the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament on the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, 15 November 2022.

Human rights org. calls on ICC to probe IDF's 'engineer of Israeli apartheid'

IDF Col. Eyal Toledano "was responsible for the legal planning and approval of acts that constitute war crimes," DAWN said in a file sent to the Hague.

 Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces as Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian house in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 25, 2022

Maher asks ex-PM Netanyahu if Israel will 'retaliate' for Kanye's tweets

Speaking to Bill Maher, former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu additionally rejected claims that Israel is an apartheid state as "ridiculous charges."

 Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu gestures at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2022.

South Africa should restore full ties with Israel - editorial

Pretoria recalled its ambassador to Israel in 2018 following violence along the Israel-Gaza border, and announced a year later that it had officially downgraded its embassy in Ramat Gan.

 South African flag.

NGO presses EU to condemn Israeli ‘apartheid’ at council meeting

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, along with the Palestinian NGO Al-Haq, plan to hold a Zoom press conference to highlight allegations of pressing Israeli human-rights violations.

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold candles during a protest in front of Catalan Government in Sant Jaume quarter in central Barcelona January 16, 2009 against Israel's attacks on Gaza. The sign reads: "Boycott Israel, boycott apartheid".

Gorbachev, Peres, De Klerk: How great?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: "What the three Nobel Peace Prize laureates defied proved larger than their vision and courage."

 FORMER SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during the opening ceremony of the 2006 Gwangju Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in South Korea.

Amnesty, BDS France to share stage at 'how to end the Israeli apartheid' event

AJC Europe blasted Amnesty International and Fête de l'Humanité for partnering with BDS in an event on "Israeli apartheid."

Activists of Amnesty International demonstrate to show their support with the Syrian people at the Fontaine des Innocentes in Paris May 29, 2012.

Germany's Scholz 'disgusted' at Abbas’s '50 holocausts' comments

The German chancellor rejected the use of the word 'apartheid' in a meeting with the PA president • Liberman: Abbas is alive today only because of security coordination with Israel

 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands as they attend a news conference, in Berlin, Germany, August 16, 2022

BDS or normalization – which is winning?

BDS is clearly not succeeding, but its continuing anti-Israel activities may well be fueling the upsurge across the world of the age-old scourge of antisemitism.

 A BDS demonstration outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Ex-US officials want apartheid-like policy in Israel - opinion

The proposal comes in the form of an op-ed in the online publication The Hill, by former US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross and David Makovsky.

 THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres speaks with US envoy and peace negotiator Dennis Ross in Jerusalem, in 2011.