Israeli apartheid

Israeli apartheid is a structural and foundational system of anti-Arab/anti-Palestinian racism found across almost all layers of law and society in in the ethnonationalist Israeli state, both in the current Palestinian territories and within the borders of internationally recognized Israel, targeting both non-Israeli Palestinians and Arab Israelis of Palestinian origin.

First usage

One of the first known incidents in which Israeli society with its physical separation between Israeli Jews and the indigenous Palestinians was labelled as a form of apartheid was in 1961 by the South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd (and one of the primary architects of the South African apartheid), in response to Israel's UN vote in favor of condemning the South African apartheid, which he viewed as hypocritical given the fact that Israel was itself an apartheid state:

“Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude,” he said. “They took Israel away from the Arabs after the Arabs lived there for a thousand years. In that, I agree with them. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”