Onderstaand artikel is voor mij wederom een bevestiging dat in het land van Apartheid er sinds '94 er eentje bij is gekomen ipv afgeschaft; enkel een lineaire tegenpool van de voorgaande versie.

Waar de vorige bedeling met Israel samenwerkte en stiekem gezellig een nuke afstak op de St. Edwards eilanden brand het huidige regime ‘de westerse blanke imperialistische machten’ af en geeft niet alleen op die ‘7 uur Afrikaans nuus’ een vertekend beeld van de wereld, geheel en al vergelijkbaar met de Apartheidstijd, als spreekbuis van de regering, nu ook is een minister niet schaam om z'n haatzaaiende opmerkingen voor massas mensen en het oog van cameras te verkondigen.

Een aantal organisaties is terecht een procedure gestart tegen deze uitspraken, maar zal de oorzaken niet in de wortel kunnen aanpakken omdat dat op dit moment IMHO gewoon niet haalbaar is.

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As the French would say, Tout ca change, tout c'est la meme chose (The more things change, the more they remain the same). - By Paul Trewhela

Een beetje in de lijn met het YT linkje van gisteren.

Aryan

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The ANC and anti-Semitism

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=290012

2009/01/30

THE recent comments made by deputy Foreign Minister Fatima Hajaig to a crowd at a solidarity rally for Palestine have been described by South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ associate director David Saks as the “first instance of public Jew-baiting by a member of government in over half a century” (that is, since the first decade of government by the National Party, with its residual sympathies for the racist totalitarian regime of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany and its genocidal conquest of most of Europe).

Hajaig reportedly informed the crowd that America, as well as other western countries, were “in the grip of Jewish money power”.

She is quoted stating: “They ( ie, the Jews) in fact control ( America) . No matter which government comes into power, whether Republican or Democratic, whether Barack Obama or George Bush. The control of America, just like the control of most western countries, is in the hands of Jewish money and if Jewish money controls their country then you cannot expect anything else.”

On January 21 anti-racism activists Zackie Achmat, Jonathan Berger, Nathan Geffen, Doron Isaacs and Faizel Slamang sent a fax to Hajaig asking her to deny having made the anti-Semitic remarks, but received no reply. They however “received confirmation of receipt of our fax”.

One must conclude that the deputy Foreign Minister’s remark was accurately reported. It is identical in spirit with the Charter of Hamas, adopted in 1987, which states that Jews have accumulated “huge and influential wealth”, which it states Jews use to implement their “dream”. According to Hamas, this wealth supposedly permitted Jews to foment both the French (1789) and the Russian (1917) revolutions so as to “fulfil their interests and pick up the fruit”, as well as start both world wars and “promote clandestine organisations which are spreading around the world to destroy societies and promote Zionist interests”, among which Hamas lists the Freemasons, Rotary clubs and Lions clubs.

The programme of Hamas, with which the ANC now appears to have aligned itself at governmental level, is indeed racist and genocidal. This is evidenced by Article Seven in the Charter of Hamas, which incorporates a direct incitement to the murder of Jews from a well-known Hadith (or reputed saying of the prophet, Mohammed). Article Seven of the Hamas Charter states, “The Prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The (end of days) will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: ‘Oh, Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!’”

Hajaig’s remarks align the foreign policy of South Africa with an anti- Semitic totalitarian programme which replicates the forgery of Russian tsarism, the so-called “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.

This is the first time the ANC, now nearly a century old, has identified itself with one of the prime ideological sources in the mass murder by the Nazi regime of six million Jews, and this in the words of a senior party official responsible for the foreign policy of the State. It is evidence of an epoch-making shift in the ANC from its previous stance of universalism and non-racialism, and suggests a similar metamorphosis in the public ideology of the SACP, the dominant influence and organiser in the Congress of South African Trade Unions, which hosted the rally where Hajaig made her remarks.

It would be hard to imagine a more striking sign of the degeneration of the ANC from its previous history.

Every one of the whites arrested at Lilliesleaf Farm in Johannesburg in June 1963, in the police raid that resulted in the Rivonia Trial, along with Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Elias Motsoaledi and Ahmed Kathrada, was Jewish. Denis Goldberg, who was arrested and was the only white person sentenced to life imprisonment in that trial, alongside Nelson Mandela, was Jewish. Goldberg served 23 years in Pretoria prison.

The second longest-serving white political prisoner, David Kitson, sentenced to 20 years in Pretoria prison for his role in the second tier of leadership of Umkhonto weSizwe following the Rivonia arrests – a sentence served in full – was also Jewish.

Joe Slovo, chief of staff of MK, was Jewish, as was his assassinated wife, Ruth First. It would be pointless, as well as tasteless, to enumerate in full the names of Jews who contributed with a lifetime of struggle to the placing of the ANC government in office, through the removal of the racial criterion in politics in South Africa – many of them, like Slovo, or Eli Weinberg, or Ray Alexander, Jews who had members of their birth families (brothers, sisters, aunts, cousins) murdered by the advocates of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

It would take a re-writing of history worthy of the calibre of a Joseph Stalin, or a burning of books worthy of a Joseph Goebbels, to refashion a history of the ANC worthy of the spirit of Hajaig’s remarks about “Jewish money”, which historically have served as the prelude and excuse for the spilling of Jewish blood.

One is bound to ask: Where does this remark by the deputy Foreign Minister leave her fellow minister in government, Pallo Jordan, the Minister for Arts and Culture, whose partner, Sue Rabkin, is Jewish? (Rabkin, who worked for MK in Mozambique, is the widow of David Rabkin, also a member of MK, who was killed in Angola in a training accident in 1985, and who was also Jewish.)

Further, where does it place Ben Turok, my old prison comrade, now the oldest member of Parliament?

It suggests too that the ANC’s tribute to the late Helen Suzman, also Jewish, was a little less than sincere.

Coming from a politician with senior responsibility for South Africa’s relations with the world, Hajaig’s anti- Semitic remarks are a defining moment in the history of the country, a moment when a shift in the tectonic plates of South Africa’s social, political, cultural and intellectual life indicated that the old demon of racism is far from dead in the chancelleries of government.

As the French would say, Tout ca change, tout c'est la meme chose (The more things change, the more they remain the same). - By Paul Trewhela

# Paul Trewhela was editor of Freedom Fighter, MK’s underground newspaper during the Rivonia Trial. He was a political prisoner between 1964 and 1967. In exile in Britain he was co-editor of the banned journal , Searchlight South Africa. This article first appeared on Politicsweb.co.za