EFF STATEMENT ON CHIEF JUSTICE MOGOENG AND HIS UTTERANCES AGAINST BDS
Friday, 26 June 2020
The EFF joins the progressive international community in condemnation of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's criticism of Boycotts. Divestments and Sanctions as a strategy for the liberation of Palestine. In a dialogue conducted by the Jerusalem Post alongside the South African Chief Rabbi. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng implicitly criticised South Africans and Africans at large "who condemn Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians. but embrace South Africa and Africa's former colonisers."
The Chief Justice asked if we had "cut diplomatic ties with our colonisers." He continued to ask if we have "disinvested from our former colonisers and those responsible for untold suffering in South Africa and Africa?" He added to ask: "Did Israel take away our land or the land of Africa, did Israel take our mineral wealth?"
This was in an attempt to delegitimise the international human rights movement to isolate the apartheid state of Israel until it ends its illegal, racist and genocidal occupation of Palestine.
We must unite in condemnation of the Chief Justice's questioning of this campaign on the basis that African people have not done the same to colonisers. This is utterly wrong and ahistorical. Anyone who has paid honest attention to how colonisation and Apartheid were defeated knows that it was through international solidarity-based, among other things. on Boycotts. Divestments and Sanctions.