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How to use the word Apartheid in a Sentence?

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Mr. President, we have respected the resolutions of international legitimacy and signed agreements, and we have committed ourselves to renouncing violence and fighting terrorism in our region and the world, mr. President, we look forward to the efforts of your administration to turn the page on the Israeli occupation of our land and the acts of racial discrimination, apartheid against our people; and to stop unilateral actions that undermine the two-state solution.

Mahmoud Abbas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The cultural boycotts and diplomatic isolation of Russia may go a long way as they did with apartheid South Africa to bring needed change.

Ryan Goodman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world.

South African

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of Israel of ‘genocide,' ‘apartheid,' and other fictitious crimes while praising China, a country that is putting Muslims in internment camps, indicates an irrational hatred of Jews and not a concern for human rights, with regards to Jews, diversity heads seem to share much in common with grand wizards of the Ku Klux Klan, and it is clear that the entire field needs to be reevaluated before more Jewish students are placed at unnecessary risk.

Yaakov Menken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and label the Jewish democratic state of Israel an apartheid state, i reject it.

Ted Deutch

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Israel is not an apartheid state and any conference seeking to promote such a baseless assertion must be recognized for the sham that it is.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Israeli government has demonstrated an intent to maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the occupied Palestinians territory, that intent has been coupled with systematic oppression of Palestinians and inhumane acts committed against them. When these three elements occur together, they amount to the crime of apartheid.

Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Over the past several weeks a growing number of House Democrats wrongly blamed the violence in the Middle East on Israel, in fact, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,RashidaTlaib, and Cori Bush irresponsibly tried to delegitimize our closest ally in the region, calling it an ‘apartheid state.’ Within days, this same sentiment of bigotry spilled into several major U.S. cities. Graphic videos showed pro-Hamas mobs intentionally target random Americans simply because they were Jewish.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Israel today has employed two separate legal systems, one for the Palestinian Arabs and one for Israeli Jews, which is the textbook definition of apartheid, the word apartheid was taboo a few years ago. Today, it is no longer taboo.

Marwan Muasher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A ceasefire is necessary, but will not alone achieve freedom, justice, and equality for all who live under Israel's apartheid government, the U.S. must condition funding to uphold human rights, and end the funding entirely if those conditions are not met.

Rashida Tlaib

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If you support a cease-fire, then get out of the way of the U.N. Security Council and join other countries in demanding it, apartheid-in-chief Netanyahu will not listen to anyone asking nicely.

Rashida Tlaib

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Shame on Israel and those who keep silent in the face of disgraceful attacks, we call on everyone to stand up against the policies of occupation and aggression of this apartheid state.

Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We call on everyone to stand up against the policies of occupation and aggression of this apartheid state.

Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I came from South Africa, where I saw [ racism ] growing up. The difference, in a funny way, is that it was Apartheid, but it was Apartheid in the open, i thought we were coming to the land of the free. And frankly, I've been completely disenchanted.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Reparations for African Americans are based on paying restitution for 250 years of slavery followed by 100 years of racial apartheid, which we often call Jim Crow. So it's really an attempt to address both the moral harm, and the crime that slavery and Jim Crow were, but also the wealth gap that was created by both of these institutions.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Human rights advocates won great and laudable victories in our lifetimes, from the defeat of fascism, to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, to the end of Apartheid, but that was then. The great and noble human rights project of the 20th Century is in crisis.

Secretary Pompeo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Though Apartheid policies were officially rescinded in South Africa, the Apartheid mentality and various other forms of racial discrimination still thrive in the world.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

Apartheid continues to thrive with the same strength but in a different form, and this puts a heavier burden on the shoulders of those who wish to fight against Apartheid types of injustice.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

It's about annexation, it's about apartheid, moving to the de jure annexation of settlements is something that was given the green light yesterday.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The issues are always the same. Racism, war, poverty, the geography changes. OK, apartheid ended, it was great to see that end for us ... It was great to see the Berlin Wall come down, (These were) amazing things that we never thought we'd see in our lives ... but the subjects about walls, again, it (still) features on the news ... I still think the songs can be symbolic outside of the actual geography and time.

Jim Kerr

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our fight is to lift more people out of poverty and lift them into opportunity, and restore the dignity of many South Africans who are still, 25 years after the end of apartheid, waiting for their freedom.

John Steenhuisen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This film is challenging in a way because 25 years later after the end of apartheid, I have chosen to make a film that tries to explore the trauma of white teenagers.

Oliver Hermanus

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We risk a' climate apartheid' scenario where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer.

Philip Alston

Found on CNN
5 years ago

After its theft of Palestinian land and culture, Israel is now trying to appropriate a symbol of our nonviolent resistance, this desperate and crude propaganda is straight out of apartheid South Africa's playbook.

Alia Malak

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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