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Human Rights Watch could do with a new pair of glasses. The organization’s new report, “A Threshold Crossed Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” is blind to fact and reality. Every paragraph in the 223-page diatribe serves one goal: brand Israel as an apartheid state. I left South Africa as a teenager in 1965 because of its policy of apartheid. I have openly and consistently criticized Israel’s settlement policies. And I am on the left of the Israeli political spectrum. To me, this document cheapens and derides both the word “apartheid” and its legacy. It is a disgrace to the memory of the millions who suffered under that policy in South Africa including many anti-apartheid activists in the Jewish community, some close to me, who lost their freedom and were left shattered in consequence.

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