Israel Cuts EU Contact with Kallas Over Apartheid Comparison in May Meetings
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Updated · sadanews.ps · Jun 18
Israel Cuts EU Contact with Kallas Over Apartheid Comparison in May Meetings
3 articles · Updated · sadanews.ps · Jun 18
Summary
Gideon Saar said Israel will halt all communication with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas until she retracts remarks likening Israeli policy toward Palestinians to South African apartheid.
The rupture followed reports that Kallas made the comparison in closed meetings in Mexico City in late May, drawing on impressions from a visit to South Africa and Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum.
Saar called the alleged remark a "blood libel," said Kallas had shown clear hostility and unfairness toward Israel, and noted she had issued no denial or clarification.
The dispute has stirred controversy inside the EU, which has not formally labeled Israel an apartheid regime even as some member states, including Ireland and Spain, back that view.