Contemporary anti-Semitism finds expression not only in the “Zionism is Racism” indictment, but the further indictment of the Jewish State as “the new apartheid”.

Apartheid has become a potent term for demonizing Israel, since it evokes the precedent of sanctions against the white regime in South Africa. In the NGOs industry and global forums, in Western media and Parliaments, the equation is daily established between the present State of Israel and the formerly apartheid state of South Africa.

Famous public personalities, such as the Archbishop and Nobel prize laureate, Desmond Tutu, and the former US president Jimmy Carter, are pursuing an agenda branding Israel with notions of racism, hatred and prejudice.

Leftist academics and European politicians are teaming up with Muslim elements to equate Israel with the original apartheid state. Anyone, who has lived in both apartheid South Africa and Israel, knows that the analogy is immoral and wicked.

Apartheid was a totalitarian system of governance, where a white minority subjugated the overwhelmingly black population and the 'superior' whites could not mingle with or even sit on a bench with the 'inferior' black peoples.

In Israel, Jews and Arabs share the public spaces, buses and schools.

In Israel all citizens – Jew and Arab alike – are equal before the law.

Israel has none of the apartheid legislative machinery. It has no Population Registration Act, no Group Areas Act, no Mixed Marriages and Immorality Act, no Separate Representation of Voters Act, no Separate Amenities Act.

Israeli Arabs currently sit in the Supreme Court, even the most anti-Jewish Arab parties belong to the Israeli Parliamen, there are Arab cabinet ministers.

In all of Israel’s hospitals, Jewish and Arab doctors and nurses work side by side treating Arab and Jewish patients. Even during Israel’s military Operation in Gaza, Arabs who needed special treatment were given care in Israeli medical clinics near the border.

Apartheid was Aryanism in a new guise, but in Israel all the minorities (Muslims, Christians and Bahais) enjoy religious freedom and the right to grow and expand.

The apartheid analogy will be used in September at the United Nations during the “Durban III” conference on racism. Durban I and II were perverted, racist parades against Israel, the West and the Jews, the worst public episode of anti-Semitism since the Second World War.

Since then, the definition of the Jewish State as an “apartheid state” has become the code word for evil.

The analogy is very dangerous. If it sticks, Israel’s ability to defend itself diplomatically and militarily will be severely weakened.

This week, the Council of the German Middle East Studies Association decided to cancel the participation of Ariel University’s speakers in the International Congress in Berlin.

Last april Rotterdam’s Erasmus University’s International Institute of Social Studies hosted and sponsored events in which Israel was labelled as “apartheid”.

Every year, the universities throughout the world promote the “Israel Apartheid Week”.

International pressure, boycotts and sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid government eventually played a major role in ending its power. Now, in the name of the apartheid charge, Tutu convinced city councils and food co-ops in Australia and in the United States to boycott Israel’s goods. He convinced the University of Johannesburg to end its relationship with Ben-Gurion University as part of a boycott against Israeli academic institutions, resembling the dark period when German universities banned famous Jewish intellectuals.

In Europe there are many universities, expecially in the UK, that are promoting a silent or public boycott of Israeli professors because of the apartheid analogy.

That is why this horrible falsehood should not be dimissed as a bad joke. It can be a nightmare for the Jewish people. The apartheid theology dictates that all the Israeli land must be returned to Islamic rule, by force if necessary.

Under the aparheid’s analogy, the World Conference against Racism, held by the United Nations in Durban in 2001, was transformed into a racist conference against Israel. In the same city where President Mbeki held his festival of victory against apartheid, another death sentence was passed for the Jews.

Several  weeks later, the Second Intifada broke out in Israel. 1.500 Jewish civilians have since been killed in suicide attacks and shootings, 10.000 are the number os  wounded.

There is a Biblical Proverb saying: “The tongue has the power of life and death”. This Judeophobic hegemony, when exercised in newspapers, universities, trade unions, books and simposia stays around like artificial waste.

Like nylon and plastic, it doesn’t disappear for generations. It has the power to produce death and tragedies.