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Support for Israeli apartheid analogy
Comparisons between Israeli policies and apartheid have been made by groups and individuals, including:
 * Hendrik Verwoerd then prime minister of South Africa and the architect of South Africa's apartheid policies.
 * J.J. Fouche, South African Minister of Defence during the apartheid era.
 * Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and other South African anti-apartheid leaders.
 * Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States,
 * Noam Chomsky
 * President of the UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
 * Israeli journalists Meron Benvenisti and Akiva Eldar
 * Israel's attorney-general from 1993 to 1996, Michael Ben-Yair
 * The Syrian Government
 * The Congress of South African Trade Unions
 * The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa
 * The Canadian Union of Public Employees
 * Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem
 * Author Naomi Klein
 * Henry Siegman, former national director of the American Jewish Congress.
 * Boaz Okon, retired Israeli judge and legal commentator for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
 * Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat.
 * Clare Short, minister for international aid in Tony Blair's government.
 * Geoffrey Wheatcroft
 * Uri Davis, an academic and Fatah-member.
 * Heribert Adam of Simon Fraser University.
 * Kogila Moodley of the University of British Columbia
 * John Dugard, a South African professor of international law and an ad hoc Judge on the International Court of Justice, serving as the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.
 * President of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.
 * Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States.
 * University of Chicago political science professor John Mearsheimer.
 * Yakov Malik, the Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations.
 * Raja G. Khouri, a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and former president of the Canadian Arab Federation.
 * Adrian Guelke, Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict.
 * Farid Esack, a writer who is currently William Henry Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School. Ronnie Kasrils, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Dennis Goldberg, and Arun Ghandhi,
 * The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa.
 * Shulamit Aloni.
 * Jamal Zahalka, an Israeli-Arab member of the Knesset.
 * Michael Ben-Yair, attorney-general of Israel from 1993 to 1996.
 * Amira Hass.
 * Israeli anti-Zionist activist Professor Moshé Machover.