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.”
