# The most succinct and clear argument that Israel is an apartheid, from Tamir Pardo, former head of the Mossad… *Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/source/f71a96fb *Machine twins:* https://truthscore.com/source/f71a96fb.md · JSON at https://truthscore.com/api/v1 Publisher: reddit.com · published 2026-09-06 · read 2026-09-06 Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1w94h93/ *A source is testimony, not proof. The document itself is never republished here.* ## Who is named (7) - [East Jerusalem](https://truthscore.com/entity/2b69ecec) - [Gaza Strip](https://truthscore.com/entity/634f6f30) - [Israel](https://truthscore.com/entity/9e6b26cf) - [open letter](https://truthscore.com/entity/a84e5172) - [West Bank](https://truthscore.com/entity/ee4d89c7) - [Rome Statute](https://truthscore.com/entity/f7b2d02b) - [Hamas](https://truthscore.com/entity/fdd1871d) ## What it added - [Israel is an apartheid state.](https://truthscore.com/claim/852c1d87) > “There is an apartheid state here,” Pardo said in an interview with the Associated Press news agency, published on Wednesday. - [Two peoples are judged under two legal systems in Israel.](https://truthscore.com/claim/53fa1282) > “In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state,” Pardo said, joining a small but growing list of retired officials to endorse an idea that remains largely on the fringes of Israeli discourse and international diplomacy but has gained growing acceptance within human rights circles. - [Human rights groups have based their conclusions on Israel on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.](https://truthscore.com/claim/583a200b) > Human rights groups have based their conclusions on Israel on international conventions like the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. - [The Rome Statute defines apartheid as “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/a4d35ffa) > It defines apartheid as “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group.” - [Israeli citizens can drive anywhere in Israel except the blockaded Gaza Strip, while Palestinians cannot drive everywhere.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e536ceb1) > Pardo said Israeli citizens can get into a car and drive wherever they want, excluding the blockaded Gaza Strip, but that Palestinians can’t drive everywhere. - [The “forever occupation” threatens Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e5bd3f9f) > He also warned that what has been described as Israel’s “forever occupation” threatens its existence as a Jewish state. - [Israel has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime.](https://truthscore.com/claim/14f973b0) > Israel’s former attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair, said last year “that my country has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime”. - [More than 2,000 Israeli and American public figures have signed a public statement declaring that Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid.](https://truthscore.com/claim/5087a64a) > The former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg, and the renowned Israeli historian, Benny Morris, are among more than 2,000 Israeli and American public figures who have signed a recent public statement declaring that “Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid”. - [The open letter calls on US Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation of the Palestinian territories.](https://truthscore.com/claim/28c4c37e) > The open letter calls on US Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation of the Palestinian territories as “the elephant in the room” in the mass Israeli protests against Netanyahu’s deeply divisive judicial reforms which, it said, are intended to “annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population”. - [Mary Robinson and Ban Ki-moon said the situation meets the international legal definition of apartheid after visiting the West Bank.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3f69d82c) > Earlier this year, the former Irish president Mary Robinson and the former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon – representatives of The Elders group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007 – spoke about the “ever-growing evidence that the situation meets the international legal definition of apartheid” after visiting the West Bank. - [Israeli citizens are barred from entering Palestinian areas of the West Bank, but can drive across Israel and throughout the 60% of the West Bank that Israel…](https://truthscore.com/claim/d81afcf4) > Israelis are barred from entering Palestinian areas of the West Bank, but can drive across Israel and throughout the 60% of the West Bank that Israel controls. - [Palestinians need permission from Israel to enter the country and must pass through military checkpoints to move within the West Bank.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d8b52884) > Palestinians need permission from Israel to enter the country and often must pass through military checkpoints to move within the West Bank. - [Rights groups point to discriminatory policies within Israel, annexed East Jerusalem, the blockade of the Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas since 2007, and the…](https://truthscore.com/claim/44dcb9cc) > Rights groups point to discriminatory policies within Israel and in annexed east Jerusalem, Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has been ruled by the Hamas militant group since 2007, and its occupation of the West Bank. - [Israel exerts overall control of the territory, maintains a two‑tier legal system, and is building and expanding Jewish settlements considered illegal by most…](https://truthscore.com/claim/b302d4e4) > Israel exerts overall control of the territory, maintains a two-tier legal system and is building and expanding Jewish settlements that most of the international community considers illegal. ## What it cost Reading this document into the graph cost $0.01.