‘A blood libel’: Sa’ar severs all contact with EU foreign policy chief over alleged apartheid comparison

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announces that he is halting all contact with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas for reportedly comparing Israel to South Africa’s apartheid regime.

In a post on X, Sa’ar charges that Kallas “has for some time now been acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness toward the State of Israel,” and points to reports that she made the apartheid comparison during high-level talks in Mexico.

Officials and diplomats told Euractiv that Kallas compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to the apartheid system that existed in South Africa until the early 1990s. The reported remarks sparked criticism from a number of European representatives.

Sa’ar adds that “to date, no denial, clarification or response has been issued by her regarding this severe statement,” leaving him with “no choice but to sever all contact with Ms. Kallas until she retracts the blood libel she directed at the world’s only Jewish state, which is also the only democracy in the Middle East.”

Ms. @kajakallas, the EU High Rep. for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has for some time now been acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness toward the State of Israel.

Recently, it was published that during her visit to Mexico, she compared Israel to the racist…

— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) June 18, 2026