Independent rapporteurs pan US for backing move, argue it would intensify rights violations; Israeli official: Statement reflects 'one-sided point of view, anti-Israeli tendency'

Cape Town-born Benjamin Pogrund, an early confidant of Mandela, wrote a book arguing 'A' word doesn't apply to Israel. Now he fears state will become 'mirror of what apartheid was'

Left-wing party head says PM will annex territory if public doesn't speak out, blasts refusal to grant citizenship to Palestinians in adjacent areas

Denis Goldberg, who was Jewish, spent 22 years in prison for his activism; dies at age 87 of diabetes and lung cancer

Foreign Ministry sources tell TV news United Nations legal adviser has already said Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination doesn't have authority on matter

Grammy-nominated, British-born Jewish singer recorded songs he was arrested for in defiance of racial barriers imposed under the country's oppressive system