# Is Israel an apartheid regime **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** israel-hamas-war\ **Created:** [November 4, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-israel-an-apartheid-regime/992614 "2023-11-04T23:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-israel-an-apartheid-regime/992614/4 "2023-11-05T00:12:24Z")
> [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/1209): > > > [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/1209): > > > > When it ends its apartheid regime. > > There you go again, amplifying Hamas propaganda. Why, in your opinion, would this former attorney general of Israel and this former head of Mossad be parroting Hamas propaganda? > [@](#): > > Some Israel scholars and former Israeli officials have also started using this designation. In 2022, Michael Ben-Yair, a former attorney general of Israel, said that “it is with great sadness … I must also conclude that my country has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime.” Earlier this year, Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, emphasized, too, that “there is an apartheid state here” featuring “two people [who] are judged under two legal systems.” > **[The argument that Israel practices apartheid, explained](https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate)** > > Some human rights groups have reached this conclusion based on how the crime is defined in international law. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-israel-an-apartheid-regime/992614)._