A report by a Harvard Human Rights Center sparked outrage among Israeli officials and pro-Tel Aviv circles, for condemning the occupation of the "crime of apartheid."

The report was issued at the end of last February by the Center for Human Rights at Harvard Law School in cooperation with the Palestinian Addameer Foundation, and then submitted to the United Nations in early March.

Tel Aviv's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, expressed his anger at the report - in a tweet on Twitter on Sunday - describing it as "anti-Semitic" and accusing Harvard of cooperating with institutions classified on the Israeli terrorism list such as Addameer and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

"I expect Harvard University to categorically condemn this abhorrent report and hold accountable those who wrote these lies against the only democracy in the Middle East," Erdan said.

Harvard University published an antisemitic report together with the terrorists of the PFLP, a designated terror organization in Israel, the US, the EU & more.

1/4 https://t.co/jFhoVoJVcr

— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) March 20, 2022

On the other hand, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) praised the Harvard report, and said on Twitter, "The truth can no longer be denied, when will the international community take action on it?"

"A center for human rights in one of the world's greatest educational institutions says that Israel is an apartheid state, while an Israeli politician with a history of racism against Palestinians says that it is not, so who is right?"

The Harvard report came on the heels of a report by Amnesty International in early February, in which it declared for the first time that Israel was practicing apartheid against the Palestinians, and called on the International Criminal Court to consider the crime of apartheid in the context of its current investigations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Amnesty said at the time that this report was one of the most in-depth and comprehensive research and investigations conducted by the organization on this issue.

The international organizations Human Rights Watch and the Israeli B'Tselem have said, in two separate reports during the past year, that Israel is committing crimes of apartheid.

"Apartheid Street"

In the same context, British activists yesterday named "Apartheid Street" to the street where the Israeli embassy is located in London, as part of an event marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 20.

The event was supervised by activists in solidarity with the Palestinian people from Amnesty International in Britain and the Pal-Art group, where they hung a banner reading "Apartheid Street, W8, No Palestinians Entry".

The activists wore T-shirts that read "End Israeli Apartheid" and performed Palestinian Dabkeh shows in the street after his name was changed.

Dear defenders of Israel's racist system of apartheid 👇🏾

Your predictable outrage at our campaign to help end Israeli apartheid has zero impact on our human rights strategy.

If you were cheering us on, I'd be worried – then we truly would have "lost our way"!

pic.twitter.com/CQDGd07f1g

— kristyan benedict (@KreaseChan) March 20, 2022

Racist systems like apartheid aren't relics of the past but the reality for millions of Palestinians.

For International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we joined Palestinian defiantly dancing outside the Israeli embassy ✊🏽#EndIsraeliApartheid pic.twitter.com/AWuXUrhC6Y

— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) March 21, 2022