Does Israel face a 'South Africa moment' over Gaza? Is it approaching a "South Africa moment", when a combination of political pressure, economic, sporting and cultural boycotts helped to force Pretoria to abandon apartheid? One feature of the sanctions levelled at South Africa between the 1960s and the end of apartheid - a policy of racial segregation and discrimination that was enforced by the white minority government in South Africa against the country's black majority - in the 1990s was a series of cultural and sporting boycotts. "We're not in a South African moment, but we're in a possible preamble to a South African moment," he said. He believes recent sanctions are necessary, saying: "That's how South Africa was pushed to its knees."