Apartheid

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

That move prompted backlash in Israel and beyond, including calls to boycott Rooney’s work, with Israeli bookstore chains reportedly removing some of her books from shelves.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Sally Rooney, left, promotes her novel "Intermezzo" at London’s Southbank Centre, Sept. 25, 2024.
Palestinians throw stones at Jewish settlers as they establish a pastoral outpost at the site where Jewish settler Yehuda Sherman was murdered, near the village of Beit Mirin north of Nablus in the West Bank.

‘Settler violence’: A buzzword used to single out Israel - opinion

Settler violence is frequently deployed as a label that implies state responsibility.

|ByALAN BAKER
Palestinians stand at the scene where vehicles and homes were set on fire following an attack by extremist Jewish settlers on the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank, March 22, 2026.

In the fog of a justified war, Israel does little to stop settler violence - opinion

While settler attacks on West Bank Palestinian villagers and farmers continue to escalate, the government has done little but turn a blind eye.

|ByJOSHUA M. DAVIDSON
Hasan Piker attends a press conference during day three of Web Summit Qatar 2026 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, on February 3, 2026.

Brad Schneider warns Democrats on antisemitism in Hasan Piker controversy

“Hasan Piker is an unapologetic antisemite,” Schneider, who chairs the New Democratic Coalition, wrote in a post on X.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

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"

Polish delegation to Palestinian territories pays tribute to Arafat

Multiple members of the delegation referred to Israel as an apartheid state.

JULY 29, 2022ByALDEN TABAC
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Polish President Andrzej Duda review the honour guard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2017.

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi bashes government over latest statement

Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein explains that the ANC government has recently given Israel observer status in the AU institution even though the South African government tried to convince them otherwise.

JULY 27, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
A placard depicting former South African President Nelson Mandela hangs on a barbed wire during clashes with Palestinians and Israeli security forces, near Ramallah December 6, 2013.

South African official calls for Israel to be declared an ‘apartheid state’

Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor evoked comparisons between the Palestinian narrative and South Africa's history of racial segregation this week at the Palestinian Heads of Mission in Africa.

JULY 26, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
South Africa's Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor

PA commits identity theft regarding South Africa and Namibia -opinion

The Palestinian leadership has constantly committed “identity theft” to validate their own historical narrative, as in the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

JULY 23, 2022BySHIMON SAMUELS
The city of Durban in South Africa.