South Africa wages legal warfare against Israel

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

"Antisemitism is not only the oldest, longest, most enduring and most lethal racism … (but one) which reflects whatever the zeitgeist is at any given moment.” – Irwin Cotler

In our time, that zeitgeist has taken the form of anti-Zionism, and it is traceable to the 2001 South Africa World Conference on Racism. The conference was a bacchanal of Jew hatred that labelled Israel a racist, imperialist, settler colonial, ethnic-cleansing, child-murdering, apartheid, genocidal, Nazi state, and remains the core of South Africa’s foreign policy to this day. Its poisonous rhetoric is showcased at campus Palestinian Occupied Zones, amplified by the media, and legitimized by political parties, Western “allies” and the United Nations.

The impressive financial, moral and emotional support mustered when Israel is physically attacked is muted or altogether absent when she is under siege at the International Court of Justice, World Criminal Court and UN General Assembly. Their obscene charges of apartheid and genocide, demands for a Judenrein Judea, Samaria and E. Jerusalem by this time next year, and criminal indictment of Israel’s leaders are referred to as “lawfare” and are somehow tolerated.

Our Nov. 18 conference at the Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center features Rev. Malcolm Hedding, a South African Pastor, Zionist and international expert on apartheid. The ancient Chinese general/ philosopher Sun Tsu said, "Know your enemy… in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated." Come and learn more about one of our enemies.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is no charge, but registration is required. To register, see the flyer in this issue or visit www.eventbrite.com/e/southafricas-lawfare-against-the-jewish-statetickets-1003057541107.