The false accusation of "Israel apartheid"

South Africa's uniquely evil regime has been maliciously twisted into a uniquely evil lie

Sign at University of California, Irvine, 2010; credit: AMCHA Initiative

The campaign to demonise and delegitimise Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood.

This is the claim that Israel is an apartheid state.

The claim is as fatuous as it is pernicious. Apartheid was the name given to South …