Israeli foreign ministry spokesman denounced a United Nations agency report accusing Israel of imposing an ‘’apartheid regime’’ of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people.

The spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, likened the report to Der Sturmer, a Nazi propaganda publication that was strongly anti-Semitic.

The report was published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).It concludes tht ‘’Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole."

ESCWA comprises 18 Arab states in Western Asia and aims to support economic and social development in member states, according to its website. It is based in Beirut, Lebanon.

The 74-page report was written by Richard Falk, a longtime deeply biased advocate against Israel, who has previously used his U.N. appointments to accuse Israel of extreme, premeditated crimes and has dabbled in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. The co-author, Virginia Tilley, is an advocate of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaigns against Israel.

UN Under-Secretary General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf said the report was the "first of its type" from a U.N. body that "clearly and frankly concludes that Israel is a racist state that has established an apartheid system that persecutes the Palestinian people".

But UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the report was published without any prior consultation with the UN secretariat.

"The report as it stands does not reflect the views of the secretary-general (Antonio Guterres)," said Dujarric, adding that the report itself notes that it reflects the views of the authors.

"The attempt to smear and falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East by creating a false analogy is despicable and constitutes a blatant lie," Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement.The United States called on the UN to withdraw the report.

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, declared: “The United States is outraged by the report. The United Nations Secretariat was right to distance itself from this report, but it must go further and withdraw the report altogether.”

Jewish groups also slammed the report. World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO called this publication “a sad attempt to reinstate the infamous 1975 UN resolution that considered Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination."

Robert Singer urged UN leaders and member states “to dissociate themselves from this report and to condemn it for what it is: a piece of vile anti-Israel propaganda that has not basis in fact.”

“Rather than provide constructive analysis about Israeli policy in the West Bank, this report is rife with outrageous accusations of criminality and apartheid practices and reflects the biased agenda of the authors,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO OF the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). “This report does not meet any reasonable standard of judiciousness or constructive analysis about Israeli policy or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We join the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and other diplomats in urging this report be immediately recalled.”