Antony Loewensten writes of “recent stories [that] should have generated outrage in the Jewish community” and didn’t.
Veterans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle visited the West Bank in early July and were shocked by what they saw. “Even with the system of permits, even with the limits of movement to South Africa, we never had as much restriction of movement as I see for the people here”, said ANC parliamentarian Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. Fatima Hassan, a leading human rights lawyer, said that the situation in Palestine is “worse than we experienced during apartheid”. These facts are uncontroversial, and yet the vast majority of the Jewish Diaspora remain silent over the crimes, implicitly endorsing them.
Two years ago I visited Palestine and met a South African official of the World Council of Churches. He also said that conditions there were “worse than apartheid.”
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Jimmy Carter described the conditions as worse than apartheid in many ways as well, verbally.
Some of the problems are structural in the land-locked nature of now Palestine (disconnected from Gaza).
Jimmy Carter described the conditions of apartheid as only relevant to the West Bank and Gaza (different setting in Gaza, with Hamas control – not Israeli internally).
What is the path to change?
And, how can that path be hastened?
It serves NOONE to suggest flying from Boston to Provincetown faster, if the only real path there is by the road.
But, it does make sense to talk about what makes the road flow better.
Less checkpoints?
zionism, a political-military arm of jewry, is worse than africaaner racism. is worse than nazism. it is the zenith of group glorification and hatred of others – all others. it is the nadir of human devolution.
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