By THE NEW YORK TIMES
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South Africa Calls Israeli Policies Toward Palestinians ‘Apartheid’
South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands recalled his country’s history of racial discrimination during a hearing at the International Court of Justice on the legality of Israeli policies in Palestinian territories.
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We as South Africans sense, see, hear and feel to our core the inhumane, discriminatory policies and practices of the Israeli regime as an even more extreme form of the apartheid that was institutionalized against Black people in my country, coincidentally from the year 1948, and which lasted until 1994. It is clear that Israel’s illegal occupation is also being administered in breach of the prohibition of the crime of apartheid. It is indistinguishable from settler colonialism, which has no place in the 21st century.
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