It's worth mentioning in this and so many other disagreements that the current human culture is given to "that depends on what the meaning if 'is' is" type food fights, with people treating the applicability of a term as the point of the debate. Held side by side, apartheid in South Africa and apartheid in the Palestinian territories both meet the dictionary criteria of separation, and both involve suppression. I attempt here to be as close to an impartial observer as I can muster, without excusing injustice wherever it may be found: only one of the two apartheids involve the inclusion of organized violence against the entity who on balance appears to be holding the cards. Without excusing any Israeli actions that harmed innocent people, I do not recall rocket and suicide attacks in Johannesburg by intractable guerilla movements comparable to the Israeli/Palestinian situation. That makes the two situations different, and the applicability of the term a straw man. That said, may peace on earth prevail against the clearly formidable odds.