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


Barcelona restores twin cities status with Tel Aviv

Barcelona's status as Tel Aviv's twin city had been suspended in February due to Israeli "apartheid," but the new mayor has reinstated them.

 Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni.

There are no anti-Arab 'apartheid' roads in the West Bank - opinion

Arabs of Judea and Samaria can use all the roads, including those in Area C, but for Jewish Israelis, entry into Area A constitutes a criminal offense.

 THE WRITER leads an AFJS group on a tour in Samaria, earlier this month. The Huwara bypass road under construction is in the background.

Israeli minister: West Bank is like a prison, but it's not apartheid

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said that Israel isn't an apartheid state. The reason, he said, is that one has to view the Palestinians in the West Bank as prisoners.

  Signs proclaiming Israel to be practising apartheid put up by B'tselem ahead of Biden's visit, July 13,2022

Ann Harris: A Jewish leader and woman of valor - tribute

Ann Harris, who died in March 2023, was a celebrated Jewish communal leader and activist, and her successes stand alone from those of her husband.

 Ann Harris

'Israel hater': Itamar Ben-Gvir trades blows with supermodel Bella Hadid

"In no place, no time, especially in 2023 should one's life be more valuable than another," Hadid wrote in reaction to Ben Gvir's quote.

(L-R) Bella Hadid, Itamar Ben-Gvir

West Bank 'apartheid' is 'just like Nazi Germany' - former IDF commander

"For 57 years there has been no democracy" in the West Bank, Amiram Levin said. "There is absolute apartheid there."

 Amiram Levin speaks at a conference organized by Zionist Camp parliament member Erel Margalit in Tel Aviv. May 22, 2016.

Israeli Bedouin slam new anti-polygamy move as 'cultural apartheid'

The law, proposed by Social Equality Minister Amichai Chikli and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, makes it so that families will only be allocated one plot of land regardless of how many wives.

Women prepare traditional flat bread in the Beduin village of Umm al-Hiran, northeast of Beersheba.

Netanyahu to NBC: Apartheid's hogwash, real danger is ethnic cleansing of Jews

The absence of a Palestinian military does not mean that there is an apartheid system, Netanyahu said in reference to the West Bank. 

 A placard depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as people demonstrate on the 'Day of National Resistance' in protest against him and his nationalist coalition government's judicial overhaul, near U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel July 18, 2023

American Anthropological Association votes to boycott Israeli academic institutions

The boycott applies only to formal collaborations with the association itself, and it does not apply to individual Israeli academics.

 WE MUST stand together against BDS and all forms of antisemitism.

Why do some US Congress members have unwavering hostility to Israel? - opinion

No matter what new way members of the Squad choose to demonize Israel, we will continue to fight for what is morally right on the streets.

 US REPRESENTATIVE Ilhan Omar speaks as Representative Rashida Tlaib looks on at a news conference, on Capitol Hill, in 2021.