Like their U.S. counterparts, Australian senators from both sides of the aisle have jointly rejected Amnesty International’s recent report accusing Israel of engaging in “apartheid.” “Our report reveals the true extent of Israel’s apartheid regime. Whether they live in Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the rest of the West Bank, or Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights,” Agnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International (AI), said in a statement. “We found that Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession, and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid. The international community has an obligation to act,” she added. Apartheid is a system of institutionalised partition on racial and ethnic grounds. It is most often associated with South Africa, where it lasted for 46 years, ending in 1994, with F. W. de Klerk serving as the last apartheid leader and …