Apartheid

Israel’s archaeological plans in Sebastia risk ‘heritage apartheid,’ Israeli NGO tells ‘Post’

“The more Israel pushes to transform archaeological sites into anchors for annexation, the greater the backlash, and that ends up damaging the very sites it claims to protect,” stated Alon Arad.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
View of a graffiti painted, in the ancient archeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025.
The 'Post's' Amichai Stein with EU Ambassador to Israel Michael Mann on June 18, 2026.

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."

|ByAMICHAI STEIN
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

The statements were made during Kallas' recent trip to Mexico. Kallas responded to Sa'ar via X, reaffirming the EU's commitment to Israel as well as its commitment to the two-state solution.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

The protest set out on Thursday afternoon, initiated by “Partnership for Peace” and dozens of other organizations and parties, marking 59 years since the Six Day War.

|ByYOAV ETIEL

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.

OCTOBER 31, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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."

OCTOBER 16, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

OCTOBER 15, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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.

OCTOBER 2, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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."

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
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."

AUGUST 22, 2022ByMICHAEL STARR
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

AUGUST 16, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV
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.

AUGUST 10, 2022ByNEVILLE TELLER
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.

AUGUST 8, 2022BySTEPHEN M. FLATOW
THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres speaks with US envoy and peace negotiator Dennis Ross in Jerusalem, in 2011.

French Jewish leaders condemn Israel 'apartheid' bill as dangerous leftist obsession

French rabbi slams left-wing politicians who signed a draft resolution claiming Israel is an "apartheid regime." 

AUGUST 4, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
A man wearng a T-shirt with the message, "Boycott Israel Apartheid" holds a Palestinian flag during a protest action on a bridge overlooking umbrellas placed along the artificial beach along the "Paris Plages" event, in Paris, France, August 13, 2015. Paris' decision to celebrate "Tel Aviv on Seine"