Israeli Apartheid Week marked in South Africa

by ISMAIL MAHOMED

SEVENTY-ONE years on, the scourge of ethnic cleansing continues in occupied Palestine.

The United Nations, International Criminal Court and a host of oppressive, so-called democratic states secretly or with a forked tongue appear to support the status quo of occupation, oppression, mass killings and disenfranchisement of the Palestinian people by Apartheid Israel.

The recent resolution of the Arab League too smacks of blatant hypocrisy when some of the Middle Eastern states actually pride themselves in unsavoury relationships with Apartheid Israel and other such states.

Some countries in the African Union who had for hundreds of years been colonised, raped of their resources, depopulated and bitterly oppressed, now have new ‘Black-White’ leaders who choose to continue the legacy of their colonial slave masters.

These rogue states have callously chosen to motivate for observer status for Israel at the African Union. What a shame! Are not Africans capable of resolving their own problems by themselves?

Among those leading the crusade to sideline the plight of the Palestinian inhabitants, happen to be the previously colonised Senegal and Zambia.

Drawing attention to all of this, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) was commemorated globally for the fifteenth time in over 250 cities from April 1 to 7, 2019.