To call Israel an apartheid state is absurd as saying that there are equal rights to all peoples in any of the countries surrounding Israel. To call Israel an apartheid state is in the words of Colonel Richard Kemp:

Not only a blatant and unsubstantiated lie but also an insult to black South Africans who suffered so horrifically under a genuinely apartheid regime.

Not only a blatant and unsubstantiated lie but also an insult to black South Africans who suffered so horrifically under a genuinely apartheid regime.

I grew up in the only apartheid regime the world has known in South Africa. I waited for my (whites only) school bus to my (whites only) school on a bench that said “Bus stop. Whites only” in English and Afrikaans. After school I went to the beach and daily passed by this sign:

It was a brutally oppressive regime where State sanctioned racism was enshrined in the law. The color of one’s skin was the sole factor as to whether one did or did not have rights. The contrast between Apartheid South Africa and the State of Israel is total. As Jeremy Leibler, President of the Zionist Federation of Australia wrote,

This is an appalling [accusation] that should be rejected by everyone who seeks Israeli – Palestinian peace. It makes a mockery of both objectivity and the victims of apartheid South Africa, who suffered under an evil regime that bears absolutely no........

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