Israel: world’s only apartheid state today?

That’s certainly what South Africa’s representative told the UN in 2018:

VIDEO: South Africa’s rep at the @UN_HRC says Israel is the ‘only state in the world that can be described as an apartheid state’. #UPR29 #HumanRights pic.twitter.com/nw2u39eALH

— Media Review Network (@MRN1SA) January 23, 2018

Electronic Intifada reported days later:

during a regular review of Israel’s record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, the South African representative Clinton Swemmer asserted that “Israel is the only state in the world that can be called an apartheid state.”

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