South Africa: Israeli policy reminiscent of apartheid

[Scurrilous]

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"The South African government urged Israel on Tuesday to end practices toward Palestinians that it said were reminiscent of its own history of apartheid.

"We call upon the Israeli government to cease their activities that are reminiscent of apartheid forced removals and resume negotiations immediately," the government said in a statement.

The unusually strong statement criticized the demolition of Palestinian houses and the expansion of Jewish-only settlement on land taken from Palestinians.

"We condemn the fact that Israeli settlement expansion in East Jerusalem is coupled with Israel's campaign to evict and displace the original Palestinian residents from the City," the statement read."

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[Jim Sagle]

1. Obviously the SA gubmint has Alzheimers.

[Violet_Crumble]

2. Yeah, who are they to speak with any authority on apartheid? n/t

[shira]

4. and who are jews to speak with any authority on what is antisemitism at the DU forum on I/P?

[subsuelo]

5. unfortunately there are so many unfounded charges of antisemitism

it ends up harming efforts at combating *real* antisemitism

[Violet_Crumble]

6. I've got that poster on ignore but I'm guessing they accused the SA govt of being antisemitic?

Apart from being unsure why it's taken to starting to reply to my posts after agreeing that we should leave each other alone, a government made up of people who lived through Apartheid saying that Israel's policies in the West Bank is reminiscent of Apartheid is definately not antisemitic. If that's not what was said, I'm not sure why the hell anyone would insert antisemitism into this thread....

[AnOhioan]

3. As so many here suffer from that dread disease known as denial

[Jim Sagle]

7. That's a river in Egypt, isn't it? You know, like "from the river to the sea"?