The SA Zionist Federation calls on the SA government to stop misusing the word genocide
5 May 2024
On this solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) as we remember and honour the millions of Jews murdered by Nazi Germany in one of the worst genocides in human history, the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) condemns in the strongest terms the South African government's ongoing and deliberate mischaracterisation of the Jewish State’s actions as “genocide”.
In a recent interview on BBC Hardtalk, Judge Joan Donoghue, who was the President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) when it presided over the case brought about by South Africa against Israel in December, clarified that the court "did not decide, and this is something where I'm correcting something that's often said in the media. It did not decide that the claim of genocide was plausible."
The court determined that the Palestinians have a plausible right to be protected from genocide, and that South Africa had the right to present its case.
Despite this clear statement from the former ICJ President, the South African government, spurred on by the antisemitic BDS movement, continues to weaponise the term "genocide" in their support of Hamas, a recognised terrorist organisation, whose charter, rhetoric and actions clearly demonstrate its intent to commit a real genocide against Israel and Jews worldwide.