Nelson Mandela – a long-time opponent of Israeli Apartheid

Christian fundamentalist supporters of Sodastream – 20 years ago the same people supported South African Apartheid

Black Zionist who tells anti-Zionist Jews they should have been annihilated by Hitler – and then claims that Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu would have agreed with them!

PSC stall in background as we hand leaflets out

One of many PSC leafletters

Zionists looking demoralised as they are shunned by the public

one of the Zionists tries putting on imaginary handcuffs (for Palestinians of course)

Simon – the Zionist jester looking non-too pleased

Christian Zionist (potty mouth) holds up poster proclaiming Jews have lived  in Palestine for 3,000 years (actually dear they were Canaanites then!)

handing out leaflets

At the regular Saturday picket today, local Zionists hit on a new ploy.  They go into the shop, buy
something and then claim it as some kind of victory.  Meanwhile over 90%
of members of the public who we talk to, don’t want anything to do with an
apartheid shop.  Of course there are few reactionaries who enter the citadels of Israel’s apartheid shop.  But there were also people who gleefully broke the anti-Nazi boycott of Germany between 1933 and 1939.

Every week we are in danger of running out of leaflets as
the Zionists stand around gossiping at their stall or hurling a few insults at
us, which results in normal people finding that if the supporters of a cause
are obnoxious, then the cause itself must be obnoxious.

The picketers are mainly Christian fundamentalists and Jewish
Zionists.   The former even have a Black woman who tries to pretend
that South African Apartheid and Zionist Apartheid are not the same and that
she supports Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu!  Today this particular creature told me, and
it was recorded, that I should have been annihilated by Hitler.  Such lovely people the Zionists mix with!

 
Anti-Apartheid hero Nelson Mandela demands end to Israeli Apartheid

South Africa’s Boycott of Israel Is Mandela’s Legacy

editor
Tuesday 4 September 2012

By Giulio Meotti.. The South African government instructed that products made
in Judea and Samaria not be labeled as “products of Israel.” Israel’s deputy
foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, vehemently declared that South Africa “remains
an apartheid state,” which is now turning its discrimination against
Israel. A post-apartheid Pretoria boycotting Jerusalem is one of the more
powerful victories for the boycott and divestment campaign. And it’s Nelson
Mandela’s legacy.
On March 30, 2001, the anti-apartheid icon Mandela sent a letter to the
American journalist Thomas Friedman. Israel, said Mandela, is “not a country
that was established normally.”

Rather, it had “occupied another country.” He accused Israelis of indulging
in “a vulgar racism.” And then came the peak of his anti-Jewish hatred: “Israel
has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has
perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality.” This is
“an apartheid system.”

Since then, the definition of the Jewish State as an “apartheid state” has
become the code word for evil. The labeling of Israel as an “apartheid state”
is the embodiment of the new anti-Semitism.
Historically, black leaders in South Africa such as Desmond Tutu viewed the
Jews as a part of the “capitalist camp,” and therefore exploitative of the
blacks. Neo Mnumzama, chief representative of the ANC (Mandela’s party) at the
United Nations, called Zionism an “ally of apartheid” and “an accomplice in the
perpetuation of the crimes of Pretoria against the South African people.”

Mandela fabricated the comparison between Israel and South Africa. In his
twisted version: both are small bastions of Western values and interests
surrounded by a larger and non-Western people; both govern hostile majorities,
using force and denying rights to subjugate them; both are run by nationalistic,
racist governments unwilling to grant rights to these people but anxious to
exploit labor. However, Mandela concealed the truth: in South Africa’s
apartheid, there were 26 million blacks and 6 million whites, while in Israel
there is a Jewish majority and a minority of Arabs who attack the Jews.

The special relationship between Israel and South Africa, according to
Mandela, was an unholy alliance between pariah states (during the apartheid
era, most of the black African states broke relations with Israel). The truth
was another thing, however: like blacks in America before the civil rights
movement, or in South Africa under apartheid, Israeli Jews and their connection
to the holy land have been erased from the environment by the Arabs. It’s
Palestinian anti-Semitism, not Israel’s Jewish democracy, which must be
compared to apartheid’s Aryanism.

In 2000, the American Jewish Committee canceled a Washington luncheon
scheduled to honor Mandela after he said that 13 Jews tried for “espionage”
(read: Judaism and Zionism) in Iran were receiving a “fair trial.” While Jews —
including community leaders and a rabbi — were presented as agents of Israel
and the US, Mandela was laying a wreath on the grave of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, the father of the Iranian revolution, and warmly greeting his
successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In 1990, Mandela likened Israel to a “terrorist state” and declared that “we
do not regard the PLO as a terrorist organization. If one has to refer to any
parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government because
they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the
occupied territories.”

In 1999 Mandela supported the Palestinian use of violence. With Yasser
Arafat seated next to him at a Palestinian Legislative Council session in Gaza
City, Mandela said: “All men and women with vision choose peace rather than
confrontation, except in cases where we cannot proceed, where we cannot move
forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.”
“Arafat and Mandela – Freedom and Victory,” read one of the Palestinian
Authority banners hoisted in Gaza for the visit. A few weeks later, the
Palestinians began the Second Intifada. Fifteen hundred Jewish civilians have
since been killed in suicide attacks and shootings; 10,000 have been wounded.

We should also mention Mandela’s friendship with Colonel Gaddafi (“my
brother leader”) and his endorsement of Gaddafi’s long refusal to surrender for
trial those accused of the Lockerbie atrocity.
Under Mandela’s apartheid analogy, the World Conference against Racism, held
by the United Nations in Durban in 2001, was transformed into a racist
conference against Israel. In the same city where President Mbeki held his
festival of victory against real apartheid, another death sentence was passed
for the Jews. Many black leaders were involved in the Durban proto-Nazi saga.

Nelson Mandela might be a symbol of goodness for many, but as the recent
boycott has proven, for Israel’s Jews, Mandela has been an enabler of
anti-Semitism.