Apartheid

Europe does not view Israel as an apartheid state, EU ambassador tells ‘Post’ - interview

EU Ambassador to Israel Michael Mann admits Jerusalem ties are strained, but stresses it "would be completely misleading to imagine that we make harsher comments about Israel than other countries."

The 'Post's' Amichai Stein with EU Ambassador to Israel Michael Mann on June 18, 2026.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a press conference on the day of an EU-Israel Association Council with European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2025.

Israel's FM cuts ties with EU foreign policy chief after latter's apartheid remarks

JEWS AND Arabs take part in a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the West Bank and to mark the anniversary of the Six-Day War in Haifa, northern Israel, June 6, 2026.

Man arrested for waving Palestine flag at joint Jewish-Arab anti-government protest

Sally Rooney, left, promotes her novel "Intermezzo" at London’s Southbank Centre, Sept. 25, 2024.

Sally Rooney to issue novel in Hebrew with Israeli publisher who complies with BDS


The UN's vote against Israel and its historic contradictions - analysis

In a changing world where Iran, Russia, Turkey and others violate international law, the focus on Israel appears misplaced.

 Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Beit Dajan, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on June 3, 2022

Apartheid slander is latest verbal weapon against Israel - opinion

Two reports, one by Amnesty International and the other by Human Rights Watch add to the slander accusing Israel of apartheid.

 COPIES OF Amnesty International’s report named ‘Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians’ are put on display at a news conference in Jerusalem last year.

Gender apartheid in Afghanistan: Lessons from Taliban's women ban - analysis

They returned stronger than 20 years ago with a public-relations machine portraying them as moderate, but the gender-apartheid hasn’t changed.

Afghan female students walk near Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 21, 2022.

Criticism of Qatar's Sharia law is racist, ‘Qatarophobia,’ MSNBC host claims - opinion

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan stated in 2021 that he considered himself "an anti-Zionist and critic of the Israeli state," and calls Israel "apartheid."

 SOME 10,000 Israelis are expected to head to Doha for the World Cup that starts on Sunday.

Will Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich make Israel an apartheid state?

The South African writer presents the traditional argument that Israel is not an apartheid state and fears of what might change.

 Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu meets Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2022.

Is Israel an apartheid state? A narrative's origins in South Africa

Can Israel really be regarded as an apartheid state in the way that South Africa was when it was ruled by the Afrikaner Nationalist Party?

 Nelson Mandela’s oldest grandson, Mandla Mandela, speaks during a protest by Palestinian supporters calling for Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, to withdraw from the Miss Universe pageant in Israel on November 19, 2021.

Israel commemorates South African Jews who fought apartheid

The garden has been named Gan Siyabonga (Gan means “park” in Hebrew; Siyabonga is “We thank you” in Zulu) and will honor South African Jews who fought apartheid.

 Breaking ground at Gan Siyabonga: (from left) SAZF national chairman Rowan Polovin; JNF-SA chairman Michael Kransdorff; Tel Mond Mayor Lynn Kaplan; JNF-SA executive director Bev Schneider; and JNF-SA president Isla Feldman.

Antisemitism on college campus on the rise - opinion

"Apartheid antisemitism" has been largely neglected by university administrations because it has masked itself as "legitimate political critique."

The exterior of The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.

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