{"id":69886,"date":"2026-03-24T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/gavin-newsom-says-he-regrets-using-term-apartheid-to-describe-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:55:33","slug":"gavin-newsom-says-he-regrets-using-term-apartheid-to-describe-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/gavin-newsom-says-he-regrets-using-term-apartheid-to-describe-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom says he regrets using term \u2018apartheid\u2019 to describe Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California governor backtracks and says he meant to apply term to Israel\u2019s future if it continues on present trajectory<\/p>\n<p>The California governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom<\/a>, backtracked on earlier remarks likening Israel to an \u201capartheid state\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/03\/24\/gavin-newsom-interview-trump-2028-israel-00840635\/\">new interview<\/a> with Politico published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrat<\/a>, who is widely expected to launch a presidential bid in 2028, said that when he used the term three weeks ago, he meant it to apply to Israel\u2019s future should it continue on its present trajectory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/gavin-newsom-israel-apartheid-comment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California governor backtracks and says he meant to apply term to Israel\u2019s future if it continues on present trajectory The California governor, Gavin Newsom, backtracked on earlier remarks likening Israel to an \u201capartheid state\u201d in a new interview with Politico published on Tuesday. In the interview, the Democrat, who is widely expected to launch a &#8230; <a title=\"Gavin Newsom says he regrets using term \u2018apartheid\u2019 to describe Israel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/gavin-newsom-says-he-regrets-using-term-apartheid-to-describe-israel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gavin Newsom says he regrets using term \u2018apartheid\u2019 to describe Israel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}