User talk:Ryan Paddy/Delegitimisation

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Irwin Cotler, a Canadian MP and anti-apartheid activist who was once a lawyer for Nelson Mandela said "The second manifestation [of anti-semitism] is the indictment of Israel as an apartheid state [involving] more than the simple indictment of Israel as an apartheid state. It involves a call for dismantling Israel" He links this to other forms of delegitimization of the Jewish state by Palestinians, such as their attempt to deny any Jewish historical or religious links to the Holy Land as such, and especially to Jerusalem itself.

Benny Morris, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict, has said that those that promote the equation of Israeli efforts to separate the two populations to apartheid are effectively trying to undermine the legitimacy of any peace agreement based on a two-state solution.

Some critics of the apartheid analogy have considered "delegitimization" to be the key intention behind the apartheid accusations against Israel.