Breaking News!!!!!!
BDS has moved into their new premises tailormade to their lies and deception about Israel.
They circulate a 1975 United Nations resolution accusing Israel of racism!
But what BDS fails – by intent – to reveal is that the General Assembly voted in 1991 overwhelmingly to repeal this resolution that was seen as a blot on the UN’s reputation.
The resolution was exposed as false and an attempt by the then Soviet Union during the Cold War, to crush Israel diplomatically to strengthen the Soviet position, and weaken the US in that turbulent period during the seventies in the Middle East. It was an instrument of foreign policy in a lethal game of chess, where Israel was ‘pawn sacrifice’.
Then US Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who led the American delegation at the UN when the Zionism=Racism resolution was repealed, expressed that “the repeal would bring the United Nations better into line with the realities of the post-cold-war world. Equating Zionism with racism demonstrated like nothing else before or since, to what extent the cold war had distorted the United Nation’s vision of reality, marginalized its political utility and separated it from its original moral purpose.”
These words affirm the horrendous dishonesty of the 1975 resolution.
Mr Bongani Masuku found guilty of hate speech against the Jewish community in South Africa, 2017
It amounted to a global “blood libel” against the Jewish state.
It was nothing less than post-Holocaust anti-Semitism.
To suddenly resurrect this resolution, debunked and long dumped in the dustbin of history – knowing its falsehood and politically motivated agenda – is nothing less than transparent anti-Semitism, irrespective of the few token Jews it dredges up as supporters.
BDS should look at itself in the mirror and note the 2017 ruling of SA’s Equality Court instead of digging up old false and refuted lies about Israel as a Machiavellian diversion.
So, what was the “hate speech” of Bongani Masuku that the court declared was “hurtful, harmful, incite harm, and propagated hatred…” and which BDS attempted to divert attention away?
All ‘Hell’ breaks Loose
In a public address at Wits University, as well as in various written communications, Masuku had repeatedly threatened that Jewish South Africans would be “targeted” because of their support for Israel.
Masuku, in threats reminiscent of the Nazis in the 1930s, said Jewish lives would be made “hell”, something that his European fascist idols brought to fruition.
He further threated that vigilante action would be taken against Jewish families suspected of having members serving in the Israeli military, and that Jews who continued to stand up for Israel should “not just be encouraged, but forced to leave South Africa.”
This is not only copybook Nazism from the early thirties but could be taken right out of the rhetoric of the National Party leaders of the emerging apartheid regime. Look who Masuku is really emulating, none other than Dr.D.F.Malan, whose National Party government came to power on the programme of apartheid in 1948.
A decade earlier, then as Leader of the Opposition, Malan said the following:
In November 1931, as Minister of the Interior in General Herzog’s National Party government, Malan told Die Burger that “it is very easy to rouse a feeling of hate towards the Jews in this country.”
Nearly 90 years later, Mr. Masuku has the exact same ‘feeling’!
Forced Removals
How different are the sentiments of COSATU’s Masuku to the chilling words of Louis T. Weichardt (1894-1985) who founded the Greyshirts in South Africa, modelled on Nazi Germany’s brown-shirted Sturmabteilung. Weichardt, who would after the war become a senator for Natal in Dr. Malan’s National Party government, expressed on October the 26,1933 the following:
“…if a Jew does not want to be put in his place, we shall put him there. What objection can the Chosen Race have if I recommend a policy by which they would be happily settled in their own country? What, I ask you, is wrong in that we want to assist them in that direction?”
Is this what COSATU endorses through its Mr. Masuku?
Actually no; it is far worse.
Masuku talks of South Africa’s ‘select’ Jews to “not just be encouraged,” but “forced to leave South Africa.”
The more one reads from yesterday’s Apartheid fascists, the more similarity appears in the shape and form of today’s Bongani Masuku.
How far removed is Masuku’s chilling threats to the Natal Greyshirts’ Ray (RK) Rudman, who in Newcastle on the 17th June 1934 addressed his audience with:
“I urge you, Comrades, forget your animosity, and British, Boer and German, come out together as one man and fight Judaism until we have strangled the snake and it lies dead at our feet.”
COSATU should ask itself:
What would Nelson Mandela think of Masuku’s behavior? Is this the South Africa he fought so bravely for and sat in prison for 27 years saying in the dock at the Rivonia Trial before being sentenced on the 20 April 1964:
“It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realised. But, My Lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
The people of South Africa need to see through BDS and its anti-Semitic agenda today and not wait for the tragic consequences of tomorrow.
How would ‘The Rainbow Nation’ feel, if the reason the Jews initially came to South Africa be the very same reason why they might have to leave?
