Why should South Africans care about Israel’s apartheid?
JVL Introduction
This statement was produced by a variety of South African Jews brought together by hostility to the “unconditional support for Israel’s disproportionate violence” as expressed in a joint statement by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF).
South African Jews – or at least some of them – played important roles in the struggle against apartheid while their supposed representative body, the SAJBD, could only bring itself to speak out against apartheid when it was safe to do so, in 1985.
Others were quicker off the mark, and many paid for their commitment in harsh ways, including suffering state repression, banishment and long terms in goal.
Some of them are among those now speaking out – again, as they did after the start of the second intifada – against the line that those who claim to speak for “the Jewish community” have taken.
This article was originally published by GroundUp on Fri 21 May 2021. Read the original here.
Why should South Africans care about Israel’s apartheid?
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