The authors of this report, examining whether Israel has established an apartheid
regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole, fully
appreciate the sensitivity of the question.
Even broaching the issue has been
denounced by spokespersons of the Israeli Government and many of its supporters
as anti-Semitism in a new guise. In 2016, Israel successfully lobbied for the
inclusion of criticism of Israel in laws against anti-Semitism in Europe and the
United States of America, and background documents to those legal instruments
list the apartheid charge as one example of attempts aimed at “destroying Israel’s
image and isolating it as a pariah State”
