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Criticism of Israeli apartheid analogy
Comparisons between Israel and apartheid South Africa has been rejected by groups and individuals, including:


 * Benjamin Pogrund, a South-African born journalist and author.
 * Michael Kinsley, journalist and former co-host of Crossfire (TV series).
 * Mangosuthu Buthelezi, former South African Minister of home affairs.
 * Jean-Christophe Rufin, founder of Médecins Sans Frontières and former French ambassador to Senegal.
 * Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France.
 * Irwin Cotler, anti-apartheid activist and former lawyer for Nelson Mandela, currently a Canadian member of parliament.
 * Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today.
 * Gerry M. Steinberg, professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University and founder of NGO monitor.
 * Benny Morris, professor of History in the Middle Eastern studies department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
 * Ishmael Khaldi, Israeli-Arab diplomat and deputy consul.
 * F. W. de Klerk, former President of South Africa responsible for engineering the end of the apartheid.
 * Rhoda Kadalie, former South African Human Rights Commissioner.
 * Malcolm Hedding, South African minister and anti-apartheid activist.
 * StandWithUs, a pro-Israel advocacy organization.
 * John Strawson, professor international studies at University of East London.
 * Kenneth Arrow, American economist and Nobel-Prize winner.
 * Philippe Buc, Professor of history at Stanford University.
 * Larry Diamond, scholar of democracy studies and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
 * Josef Joffe, political science professor at Stanford University, associated professor at Harvard University, and former publish-editor of Die Zeit.
 * Stephen D. Krasner, former Director of Policy Planning at United States Department of State and current professor of international relations at Standard University.
 * Richard Cohen, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post.
 * Mohammed S. Wattad, Israeli-Arab academic at the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
 * Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University.
 * Avner Cohen, professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and author of Israel and the Bomb
 * Khaled Abu Toameh, Israeli-Arab journalist for the Jerusalem Post.
 * Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League.
 * Honest Reporting, a pro-Israel watchdog organization.
 * Simon Deng, Sudanese human rights activist.
 * Beryl P. Wajsman
 * Yitzchok Adlerstein
 * Glenn Greenwald, American lawyer and journalist for Salon.com.
 * Thomas Friedman, 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner columnist for the New York Times.
 * Martin Kramer, American author and scholar at Harvard University.