Yet more revelations that shows Israel as a nation like any other; ruthless and unprincipled: An apartheid-era cabinet minister carried a “nuclear trigger” to South Africa from Israel as part of Pretoria’s efforts to build an atom bomb, according to a report in a Johannesburg newspaper. Two renowned South African journalists have revealed that Eschel…
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How South Africa has inspired us all
Hind Awwad, national coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, tells Electronic Intifada: It took the South African BDS campaign 25 years to achieve what we achieved in five years. That is what South Africans and anti-apartheid activists tell us. And we see [new tactics] of BDS activities by the young generation…
Israel is becoming the new South Africa, says major Israeli writer
Israeli writer Amos Oz speaking to the country’s Army Radio: We are placing ourselves under an international siege, which is more dangerous for us than the siege on Gaza in dangerous to Gaza. Israel is turning into South Africa in the Apartheid days – a country which the world’s nation wouldn’t want to buy its…
From the depths of South Africa, Israel receives a warning
This event is resonating around the world. From a country that knows a thing or two about racial oppression: Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and a group of retired global leaders have joined international leaders in condemning the Israeli forces’ raid on a ship delivering relief supplies to Gaza. “We as elders condemn Israel utterly…
The how and why of boycotting a nation like Israel
The Guardian music blog publishes an interesting discussion about the rights, wrongs and issues over musical boycotts (South Africa, Israel etc): Last week, Elvis Costello became the latest, though probably not the last, musician to pull out of a concert in Israel under pressure from various groups calling for a cultural boycott of the country…
Israel and apartheid South Africa were the best of friends
My following article appears in today’s Canberra Times newspaper: The headline in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz this week was striking: ”Who says Jews and racism don’t go together?” Columnist Akiva Eldar discussed the revelations in a new book by a senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine that details the extensive relationship between apartheid South…
A mutual love for destruction
Yet more interesting questions about Israel’s relationship with apartheid South Africa and the testing of nuclear weapons, a love both countries shared: On 22 September 1979 at about 1 a.m. GMT, a US Vela satellite passing over the South Atlantic detected a double flash of light in the vicinity of Prince Edward Island. The satellite…
Who now can truly deny the love between apartheid South Africa and Israel?
The closeness of Israel and apartheid South Africa revealed far more than simple realpolitik. It was about “values”, the belief of maintaining racial superiority over the indigenous population. And now this revelation: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of…
The days when the Jewish state saw a reliable ally and friend with white supremacists in South Africa
An extract (via Mondoweiss) of an amazing new book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. What’s that about Israel “sharing values” with the democratic West? The Israeli–South African relationship was not only about profit and battlefield bravado, however. After Menachem Begin’s Likud Party came to power in 1977, these economic interests…
Israel and apartheid South Africa, friends til the end
The latest article by Max Blumenthal simply must be read in full. Powerful, telling and tragic, really. The legacy of Zionism is occupation and complicity with apartheid South Africa. Charming: A May 6 “expose” from the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot gave Israeli government officials and their hardline American proxies the ammunition they had been seeking…