The Guardian once allowed its former South Africa correspondent, who had transferred to Israel, to compare in detail the two countries’ systems of apartheid. It caused a furor – much of it instigated by the Israeli embassy in London – that made the paper even more shy of taking on the Israel lobby.
"There are few places in the world where governments construct a web of nationality and residency laws designed for use by one section of the population against another. Apartheid South Africa was one. So is Israel."
The Guardian once allowed its former South Africa correspondent, who had transferred to Israel, to compare in detail the two countries’ systems of apartheid. It caused a furor – much of it instigated by the Israeli embassy in London – that made the paper even more shy of taking on the Israel lobby.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/06/southafrica.israel
"There are few places in the world where governments construct a web of nationality and residency laws designed for use by one section of the population against another. Apartheid South Africa was one. So is Israel."