The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.

Israeli apartheid is a system of institutionalized segregation and discrimination in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and to a lesser extent in Israel proper. This system is characterized by near-total physical separation between the Palestinian and the Israeli settler population of the West Bank, as well as the judicial separation that governs both communities, which discriminates against the Palestinians in a wide range of ways. Israel also discriminates against Palestinian refugees in the diaspora and against its own Palestinian citizens.

Ahmad al-Shukeiri was a Palestinian political leader and the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, serving from 1964 to 1967.

October 17 is the 290th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.