#south african apartheid

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Anti-Apartheid Movement poster, International Defence and Aid Fund, London, 1978

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Chris McGreal at The Guardian:

Jimmy Carter’s terminal illness reignited a bitter dispute over accusations the former president was antisemitic after he wrote a bestselling book likening the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories to South African apartheid. Prominent American supporters of Israel lined up to denounce Carter and the book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, when it was published in 2006. Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, called the former president a “bigot”. Deborah Lipstadt, who is now the Biden administration’s special envoy against antisemitism, accused him of having a “Jewish problem”. Alan Dershowitz, the US constitutional lawyer and ardent advocate for Israel, said Carter set out to offend Israelis and Jews. “Jimmy Carter’s sensitivities seem to have a gaping hole when it comes to Jews. There is a term for that,” he wrote.

Others did not beat around the bush and called Carter an antisemite. Pro-Israel pressure groups placed ads in the New York Times accusing Carter of facilitating those who “pursue Israel’s annihilation” and claiming he was “blinded by an anti-Israel animus”. But nearly two decades later, the book looks prescient given that leading Israeli politicians and major human rights organisations now accuse Israel of imposing a form of apartheid on the Palestinians in breach of international laws. News that Carter had entered hospice care at the beginning of the year prompted calls for critics to apologise for the abuse, drawing an admission from at least one critic. Among those outraged by Carter’s book in 2006 were members of the former president’s own foundation, which has built an international reputation for its work on human rights and to alleviate suffering. Steve Berman led a mass resignation from the Carter Center’s board of councillors at the time. Earlier this year, Berman revealed that he later wrote to Carter to apologise and to say that the former president had been right. “I had started to view Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians as something that started in 1967 as an accident but was now becoming an enterprise with colonial intentions,” Berman said in his letter to Carter. Shortly before Carter’s death, Peter Beinart, described as “the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation”, said the time had come for the former president’s critics to apologise for the “shameful way that the book was received by many significant people”.

When the late Jimmy Carter released his Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid book in 2006, the book’s release drew a lot of controversy because it called out Israel’s occupation of Palestine and compared their situation to South Africa’s highly controversial and racist Apartheid policies aimed at non-Afrikaner South Africans, especially the Blacks.

Turns out that Carter was well ahead of his time in calling out Israel Apartheid before it became a mainstream issue in some parts of the left in the US.

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Not surprised that mossad and Israel are once again terrorising an African woman. They’re probably distraught that she’s too old to be given non consensual birth control injections. It’s an undisputed fact that Israel sees African people and countries as hut-dwelling, backroads sub- human terrorist cockroaches but we dragged their Zionist asses to the icj and won and we’ll do much fucking worse if those white demons try that shit with us. Threatening one of us is threatening all of us and making an enemy of one of us is making an enemy of all of us. We refuse to be bullied and intimidated by people who supplied weapons for the Rwandan genocide and who wanted to provide the apartheid government with nuclear fucking weapons. South Africa and Africa as a whole have been victims to white supremacy and colonialism for too long to let any people who get skin cancer at the slightest exposure to sunlight victimise us.

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[teachanarchy]

How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson

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🤔 … December 15, 2024 — I can’t really understand how this naturalized foreigner has risen ‘within the ranks’ in such a fast way … initially under the radar (I think) until he bought Twitter and really messed it up.

He brought with him past experiences with apartheid in South Africa. Managed to obtain major governmental contracts. Now he’s making major decisions in association with tRump!!

Was he in another slot of the 2024 ejection ballot?

As if I needed another FIDIOT to loathe!! … 🤔

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South Africa, 1961

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"The ADL has come under fire in recent years as it has leveled charges of antisemitism against leftwing Jewish groups, Black Lives Matter, Palestinian rights groups and other organizations critical of Israel. It has increasingly lobbied for federal legislation on antisemitism, some of which critics say is intended to target leftwing Jewish and Palestinian rights groups.

It has become more aggressive since the Gaza war’s outset, but its credibility has also suffered – most recently, Wikipedia’s editors found the ADL could not be trusted to give reliable information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The memo is the latest evidence that the ADL has spied on, surveilled or tracked its opponents on the left and right. In 1993, the ADL faced multiple lawsuits and an FBI investigation over a nationwide intelligence network it developed over the span of several decades with an investigator on its payroll, Roy Bullock.

Bullock was alleged to have infiltrated or kept files on the United Auto Workers union, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, neo-Nazi groups, Mother Jones magazine, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP and many more. He also allegedly sold personal information on US politicians and others to the apartheid South African government at the ADL’s behest. The ADL initially backed the apartheid regime, labeling Nelson Mandela’s party “totalitarian, anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American”.

In the wake of the far-right’s deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally, the ADL, which also tracks white supremacy, claimed it did not “directly” track leftwing groups. However, it put up a post on its website around that time encouraging police to surveil and infiltrate anti-fascist groups.

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Delia states in the 2020 memo that he was asked to assess the activist during a recent “JVP meeting”, referencing the leftwing US Jewish group, a regular ADL target.

In a statement, JVP executive director Stefanie Fox said: “It’s appalling, though not surprising, that the ADL is spending enormous time and resources attacking one of the largest progressive Jewish organizations in the country and surveilling African American organizers.”

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Delia included a quote from Rebelle’s social media, in which they express they are “no longer in the business of helping white folks cope with their privilege, nor speaking out against the terrorism of white supremacy or state sanctioned murder of Black and brown folks by the police”.

“As always, remember Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, gender and sexuality is a spectrum, Indigenous rights matter, climate change is real, defund the police, and there is no change without discomfort. Peace upon you all.”

Rebelle said they had been previously targeted by local white nationalists and pro-Israel groups that tried to get them fired from jobs or removed from speaking engagements, but the ADL memo came as a surprise because the group was not involved her work in Indianapolis.

Rebelle said the ADL was “targeting black queer folks”, and is evidence of a larger problem with the organization.

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Fox said the surveilling shows the ADL “is simply not credible as a civil rights organization”.

“They are willing to trample on civil rights, smear racial justice activists, and harm progressive movements in order to advance their primary work: ensuring Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide go unchecked and unchallenged,” she said.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Jodi Allemeier: "In a bookshop earlier today I picked up a 1955 book "Solution for South Africa - a Jewish View". It calls for solidarity between Zionism and Afrikaaner independence for a Cape Colony. I didn't buy it. But the communication was clear and quite an interesting piece of Zionist & Apartheid communication."

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Disclose! Divest!: Behind the Fight Over College Endowments

A child running through the Stanford Divestment Encampment. Credit: RJ Lozado. As graduation approached this year, students around the country began protests after calls for divestment from Israel were initially ignored by university leadership. The campus encampments were met with physical violence and the mainstream press dismissed the students’ demands as naive and immature. But, it turns out…

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30 years of demonstrating dispensation in South Africa. 🇿🇦

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My father was born on June 16th 1976 in apartheid South Africa, the exact day of the Soweto uprising where around 170-700 school students were estimated to have been shot dead at a peaceful protest. My father’s family were welcoming a new baby into their family while a few hours away, hundreds of parents’ babies were shot dead. To my father’s family and my family, June 16th is not a day to be celebrated for his birth but a day of mourning whose impact has never decreased in all the 48 years since the massacre happened.

How many thousands of parents in Palestine, be it Gaza or the West Bank, have to grieve constantly for their babies getting massacred, imprisoned, tortured, shot and raped even on the days where they should be celebrating their births? Nearly everyday my asks are bombarded with anon hate and blatant disrespect, ignorance and misinformation about my country’s history, which I no longer bother to even entertain. Disrespecting and ignoring what is happening in Palestine is not only disrespectful to their thousands of brutal deaths at the hands of the iof, but also disrespectful towards every single South African death at the hands of the apartheid government.

There are no two countries as intrinsically connected like South Africa and Palestine and no two entities as disgustingly similar as the Israeli government and the South African apartheid government. On paper, South Africa has been free for 30 years, but in reality we will never be completely free until Palestine is too and Israel is crushed and banished into obscurity like our previous regime was.

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Nelson Mandela, the leader of the campaign to end South African apartheid, is released from prison by South African President F.W. De Klerk after 27 years behind bars. February 11, 1990. Image: Nelson Mandela walks to freedom. February 11, 1990. On this day in history, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the campaign to end South African apartheid, is released from prison by South African President…

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How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson

[callimara]

To add on to my point that this is just white supremacy at work again, after the fall of South African apartheid, the white population straight up left South Africa or converted to Judaism to go to Israel.

These people knew that Israel was meant to be the next exclusive white people club. “The only democracy in the Middle East.” Sounds a whole lot more like, “the only enlightened and civilized peoples in a region of barbarians.”

Which is an extremely familiar rhetoric, isn’t it?

This TikTok explains it in more depth. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNDBY6WA/

Important PSA

Criticizing Israel is NOT antisemetism or an attack on Jewish people because

ISRAEL =/= ALL JEWS

And while I am not saying that there is no antisemitism because there is plenty of that too, this is not a case of that. But grouping all Jews together as Israeli and presenting them as a monolith erases their individuality and identity. It's like calling all Asian people Chinese, and that if you criticize China, then you hate all Asian people. It doesn't make sense.

I am so frustrated seeing people who are trying to raise awareness about Palestine be called antisemetic and disgusting by people who cannot perceive Jews and Muslims as anything but a monolith. That's the reason why so many people are having trouble distinguishing between Hamas and Palestinian civilians, because to them, they're all the same.

And that's why they don't see an issue with collective punishment.

And you know what? Palestine is NOT just the Jewish holy land. It is also the Christian holy land, and the Muslim holy land. Palestine wasn't even the first choice for a Jewish homeland because it was heavily contested by Jewish rabbis at the time.

Turning Palestine (I say Palestine because the entirety of what is now Israel used to be Palestine) as an exclusively Jewish ethno-state means that people of Christian and Muslim faith all over the world are stripped of their holy land. The oldest church in the world, dating back to the times of Christ is located in Gaza, and who are the ones protecting it? Palestinians.

And you know who bombed it? Even though it had 500 refugees of both Muslim and Christian faith inside? Israel.

Even the slogan used for the founding of Israel itself, "A land without people for a people without a land." Is blatantly revisionist and erases the existence of Palestinians already living there. It erases all the historic religious sites that stand there and are frequented regularly by their respective devotees. Or worse, does not consider the Palestinians as 'people.'

Some people tend to forget that religious belief is NOT the same as race, and so you CANNOT claim indigeneity just because you are a certain religion. I am an Indonesian Muslim. Born Muslim, raised Muslim, and every generation of my family have been Muslim. That doesn't mean I can say I'm indigenous to Saudi Arabia. Let alone that Saudi Arabian land is my birthright.

If a white American woman born and raised in Seattle decides to convert to Hinduism, can she then say she is now indigenous to India? Or if she has a child, and that child had a child, and they were all raised as a Hindu, but have always lived in the US all their lives, can they claim that they are indigenous to India?

No.

And the fact is, the first Jewish settlers during The First Aliyah (great Jewish migration to Palestine) came from Eastern Europe and are genetically closer to Russians and other Slavs than they are to the Jews who remained in the Middle Eastern region after their exile (and I guess some people forget that you can convert into Judaism even if you didn't come from "The Promised Land." Like for marriages and stuff.) That's why they feel the need to distinguish themselves from the word "Arab."

Granted, there were also Yemeni Jews that migrated with them (whom I would say have stronger claims to indigeneity), but even in the transition camps, there was a clear divide between the European Ashkenazi Jews and the Yemeni Jews, who literally had their kids taken from them to give to the Ashkenazi Jews.

And let's not forget that when Jewish migrants from Ethiopia came, they were given contraceptives without consent to make sure they didn't impact the "desired" population.

Wake up. This isn't a religious war. This is European colonization.