The British newspaper, The Guardian, followed the impact of international human rights reports, such as Amnesty International, on the image of Israel in the United States, after talking about Israeli apartheid against the Palestinians.

The report - prepared by Chris Magrell - pointed out that the comparison of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, with South Africa under the rule of the white minority, is spreading among the general trend in the United States.

He stressed that Israel's fears of the image it is taking shape in the United States has already begun to materialize, especially after human rights reports that prompt discussions about Israeli discrimination against the Palestinian people.

The writer referred to what Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said at the beginning of the year, as he contemplated the diplomatic challenges facing them in 2022, telling reporters, "We believe that the coming year will witness an unprecedented debate in its toxicity and in its radiance over the term Israel is an apartheid state. And this year 2022 will pose a threat tangible."

Lapid referred to two United Nations investigations, which he said would likely conclude that Israel's rule of the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounted to the crime of apartheid under international law.

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The writer stated that many Israeli and international human rights organizations reached this conviction, including "Amnesty International" through a report it published this week entitled "Israeli Apartheid against the Palestinians: A brutal regime of domination and a crime against humanity."

He added that Tel Aviv is also concerned that the breach of what has been a long-standing taboo within the United States, and in particular its comparison of its rule of the Palestinians with the apartheid practiced against the black population of South Africa, is evidence of the slowly creeping threat carrying with it the greater danger of eroding the solid and steadfast support Israel is blessed with its most important ally of all, with opinion polls indicating an erosion of support among Democrats, driven in part by shifting rhetoric on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

For years, opinion polls have indicated that Democrats sympathize with the Israelis at a rate that is twice as much as they do with the Palestinians.

But since the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2014, support for the Jewish state has declined, until it has become almost equal in the party circles for both parties.

According to the results of a poll conducted last June, half of American Democrats want to change their country's policy to become more supportive of the Palestinians.

This change is concentrated among the younger generation of Americans, as adults under the age of 35 are less sympathetic to Israel than the older generation.

According to the results of a poll conducted last June, half of the Democrats want Washington to change its policy to become more supportive of the Palestinians.

The suffering of Palestinians under occupation (Reuters)

Indeed, support for Israeli government policies among the Jewish community in the United States has declined, with a poll last year showing that 25% of Jews agree with the phrase "Israel is an apartheid state."

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While there is no evidence that Washington's support for Israel is under direct threat, including the largest, mostly military aid, that the United States provides to any country at all, pro-Israel groups are increasingly concerned about the diminishing effectiveness of their efforts to portray the country. Judaism as yearning for peace, were it not for Palestinian terrorism.

This claim is increasingly being debunked thanks to what Americans can now watch on social media, especially videos showing Israeli attacks and the mistreatment of Palestinians.

Israel's attack on Gaza in 2014 helped reinforce the scene of a state armed with all kinds of force, which it uses to wreak havoc on a population that has little means of self-defense.

The report pointed out that the rise of the "Black Lives Matter" movement fueled the momentum that pushes towards considering the Palestinian cause as a matter of civil rights and resistance against Israeli hegemony.

The newspaper concluded its report with what Daniel Seidman, the Israeli lawyer who spent decades exposing Tel Aviv’s land grab and its settlement policy in occupied East Jerusalem, and who recently went to Washington to explore the US policy towards Israel, “there is a change in the United States, within Congress and public opinion Even among the American Jewish community, talking about apartheid is part of that. There is an axis, but it will not last long."

"More and more people abroad are starting to see Israel as an apartheid state, and Israelis are increasingly afraid of that."