Israel is a non-democratic apartheid regime, says rights group

Embassy spokesperson rejects false claims' in report that alleges policies perpetuate supremacy of Jews over Palestinians

Israel is not a democracy but an apartheid regime" that enforces Jewish supremacy over all the land it controls, a leading domestic rights group has alleged in a position paper bound to provoke fierce controversy.

One organising principle lies at the base of a wide array of Israeli policies: advancing and perpetuating the supremacy of one group - Jews - over another - Palestinians," said B'Tselem, an organisation that documents human rights violations.