It is apartheid.
People who are born and live in Israel's occupied territories are barred from Israeli citizenship due to their ethnic and religious background. That's apartheid.
This is not a perfect analogue to the racist policies of the South African government 1948-1990, but it's not difficult to spot similarities. This certainly looks discriminatory towards all non-Israelis. And have you noticed how the artificial construct of South African "home lands" with limited autonomy look similar to the Palestinian Authority?
>It's just a declaration, pretty much like those you have to do when you want to enter the US, except with different criteria.
One explicit difference being that this is not about people entering Israel. It's about people entering those parts of the Israeli occupied areas with limited self governance through the Palestinian Authority. These people are supposed to travel over land through the Jordan border crossing only. The article even mentions quite explicitly that only in exceptional cases shall the people concerned be allowed to use Ben Gurion airport.
> Are you against Israel being a sovereign state perhaps?
Not at all. I do realise the situation in and around Israel is not simple. That doesn't mean one can't call discrimination when one notices it though...