Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said that he was severing ‘all contact’ with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas over what he said were remarks attributed to her comparing Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.⁣ ⁣ In a post on social media, Saar said Kallas had reportedly ‘compared Israel to the racist apartheid regime’ during a visit to Mexico last month and that as a result he was severing contact until she retracted the comments.⁣ ⁣ In subsequent posts on X, Saar shared posts from other accounts that mentioned or referenced a June 12 report by European news website Euractiv. It cited unnamed officials and diplomats as saying that during her visit to Mexico, Kallas had compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to the policies of South Africa under apartheid, a system of legally enforced racial segregation.⁣ ⁣ Kallas responded to the Israeli minister in a post on X, underlining the importance of dialogue but not directly addressing the c...