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Israel and Palestine
Further information: Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best Seller book, published in 2006, generated controversy for his characterization of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be amounting to apartheid. In an interview, he described apartheid to be the "forced separation of two peoples in the same territory with one of the groups dominating or controlling the other."[404] In remarks broadcast over radio, Carter claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's:[405]

.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}"When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa."[405]
The book and his subsequent remarks generated controversy, leading to some accusation of antisemitism, but Carter defended his arguments and stated that "the hope is that my book will at least stimulate a debate, which has not existed in this country. 