{"id":498830,"date":"2026-06-18T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498830\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:08:07","slug":"israeli-fm-severs-ties-with-eu-policy-chief-over-apartheid-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498830\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli FM severs ties with EU policy chief over apartheid remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-899279\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar<\/a> is severing all ties with EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, following her remarks she made during her recent visit to Mexico, comparing Israel to the racist South African apartheid regime, he announced in a Thursday X\/Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ms. Kallas&#8230;has for some time now been acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-898453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State of Israel<\/a>,&#8221; Saar said in his statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">To date, Kallas has neither denied nor clarified, nor responded, which prompted the foreign minister\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister applauded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/internationalrussia-ukraine-war\/article-899735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European<\/a> officials who condemned her remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no choice but to sever all contact with Ms. Kallas until she retracts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-897873\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blood libel<\/a> she directed at the world\u2019s only Jewish state, which is also the only democracy in the Middle East,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;And this is what I am doing,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar is severing all ties with EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, following her remarks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23698,1685,18263,65,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-498830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-apartheid","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-gideon-saar","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}