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Solidarity movements should put pressure on governments worldwide to impose sanctions on Israel, the way they did with South Africa, to ensure that country liberates itself from racial paradigms, Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said.
He told students at the University of the Witwatersrand the situation in the Holy Land was similar to that in South Africa during the apartheid era. He said it could be resolved through boycott and isolation as foreign governments had done successfully with apartheid South Africa.
Kasrils, a former Wits student and founder of the Not In My Name South African Jewish solidarity group, was speaking at a rally and the launch of the Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee (WPSC). He said: “South Africans have seen it all – from what can be achieved through violence towards a democratic nation to how crucial negotiations are to bring about democracy and justice for all."
“As far as Palestine is concerned, South Africans should stand for a solution that guarantees peace for the people of Palestine without prescribing whether or not they adopt a proposal by the Zionists that the country be an exclusively Jewish state.”
Muslims, Christians and other religions in that country want it to accommodate all religions and races, a view supported by the WPSC. Members said that they wanted the “apartheid-riddled holy land” to be like South Africa and accommodate all its citizens “regardless of religion, race, gender and sexual orientation”.
Academic, consumer and cultural boycotts of Israeli institutions, organisations and products were proposed at the rally. Kasrils, a South African of Jewish Lithuanian descent, added that South Africans could assist through acts of solidarity. He hoped this would assist to bring about peace in that country as it had done in South Africa. Read more
He told students at the University of the Witwatersrand the situation in the Holy Land was similar to that in South Africa during the apartheid era. He said it could be resolved through boycott and isolation as foreign governments had done successfully with apartheid South Africa.
Kasrils, a former Wits student and founder of the Not In My Name South African Jewish solidarity group, was speaking at a rally and the launch of the Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee (WPSC). He said: “South Africans have seen it all – from what can be achieved through violence towards a democratic nation to how crucial negotiations are to bring about democracy and justice for all."
“As far as Palestine is concerned, South Africans should stand for a solution that guarantees peace for the people of Palestine without prescribing whether or not they adopt a proposal by the Zionists that the country be an exclusively Jewish state.”
Muslims, Christians and other religions in that country want it to accommodate all religions and races, a view supported by the WPSC. Members said that they wanted the “apartheid-riddled holy land” to be like South Africa and accommodate all its citizens “regardless of religion, race, gender and sexual orientation”.
Academic, consumer and cultural boycotts of Israeli institutions, organisations and products were proposed at the rally. Kasrils, a South African of Jewish Lithuanian descent, added that South Africans could assist through acts of solidarity. He hoped this would assist to bring about peace in that country as it had done in South Africa. Read more
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