EU’s Kaja Kallas Undermines Israel with Baseless Apartheid Comparison, Faces Justified Israeli Response
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Kaja Kallas’s refusal to clarify her alleged slander against Israel draws a strong response from Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar, highlighting the EU’s biased stance and disregard for Israel’s security concerns.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has come under fire from Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar after reports surfaced that she compared Israel to South Africa’s former apartheid regime—a baseless and inflammatory accusation. Sa'ar, defending Israel’s reputation, posted on social media that, without a denial or clarification from Kallas, he had “no choice but to sever all contact” until she retracted what he accurately described as a “blood libel.”
Kallas, a former Estonian prime minister, responded by claiming to value “dialogue and engagement” with Israel, but conspicuously avoided addressing the specific allegation about the apartheid comparison. Instead, she reiterated the EU’s so-called commitment to a “constructive relationship,” while once again condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank—echoing the EU’s long-standing bias against Israel and its right to defend itself.
“Even in your words here, you are avoiding denying or condemning what is attributed to you and has been published publicly,” Sa'ar wrote in a follow-up post, rightly demanding that Kallas either stand by her remarks or disavow them.
The two-state solution, which proposes separate sovereign states for Israelis and Palestinians with Jerusalem as a shared capital, is repeatedly pushed by the international community, despite Israel’s legitimate security concerns. In a United Nations General Assembly vote in September, 142 countries supported the proposal, while Israel and a few principled allies voted against it. The ongoing conflict in Gaza, which began after Hamas’s unprovoked terrorist attacks in October 2023, has led to thousands of casualties on both sides, as Israel exercises its right to self-defense.