South African lawfare and the propaganda war against the West

By Allen Menkin, MD, Project Manager, CAMERA’s Naples Partnership of Christians and Jews

Those who attended our Nov. 18 conference on South Africa’s lawfare against the Jewish state learned how the country became the leading proxy, (prostitute might be more accurate), for the Islamic Republic of Iran before the International Court of Justice and the court of world opinion.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress includes unreconstituted communists and has turned a first world country into a corrupt, bankrupt, failed state. Its foreign policy replicates Czarist blood libels and Soviet era antizionist propaganda almost verbatim. However, as a victim of the 20th century’s most brutal racist regime, it is automatically granted credibility and moral standing to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing, genocide and being an apartheid state.

Those charges are baseless but trigger a bizarre cascade of interlocking Hamas lies, Al Jazeera journalism, NGO complaints and “legal opinions” that the UN General Assembly certifies as “proven facts” and weaves into an impenetrable thicket of resolutions, labelling Israel the metahuman rights violator of the last century.

This umbrella of “proven facts” fuels the raging epidemic of antisemitism and provides cover for members of Congress, the European Union, Canada, the United Kingdom and, seemingly, Pope Francis, to vent their moral indignation and righteous anger at Israel, while Muslim fanatics hunt Jews in Amsterdam, attack our children on city streets, slaughter Christians in Sudan and WWIII approaches in Ukraine.

South Africa itself has limited strategic importance, but it is the tip on the spear of a deadly, worldwide propaganda war against Israel and the West. Hebrew is just not the language of a dominant world power or culture; Israel has the will but not the linguistic tools and resources to win that war. America has the tools and resources to win but is sometimes confused about who’s the enemy and is reluctant to even admit we are at war.

In the darkest days of WWII, Winston Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. American Jews might do well to steal a page from the master propagandist who saved Western Civilization.