Bishop Rachel Treweek calledIsrael an apartheid state and said she stands “boldly” with people who compare the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to how Black people were treated in apartheid South Africa. The comments from Treweek were published in a reflection posted on the Diocese of Gloucester website, coming after she visited Israel and the occupied West Bank last month. “In the past I have been wary of using the word apartheid to describe the situation in Palestine-Israel, but having seen even more starkly how life is now in the occupied Palestinian territory, I wish to stand alongside ot…