COSAS shocked by SAJBD and Zionist Federation's armed militia, foreign militia must be stopped.
- COSAS Statement on 11 March 2015
Sunday's final 11th Israeli Apartheid Week protest, which was attended by hundreds of members of various PYA and MDM structures and members of other solidarity groups in South Africa was met with unbelievable hostility and aggression by employed CSO militia of the SA Zionist Federation and SA Jewish Board of Deputies.
This employed CSO militia, consisting of people, including some wearing religious attire and some Israeli Defence (offence) Force mercenaries. Shockingly the Sandton police allowed this militia, which was heavily armed, to be police during the protest. The CSO militia wore outfits written CSO and were claiming to be a security company.
The policeman in charge, a Mr King, told us that the police were working with this CSO militia and that the CSO militia was paid for by the South Arican Zionist federation and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.
Never in the history of COSAS protests have we experienced a private company, armed to their teeth, work as police in South Africa. Imagine if the the EFF were to pay thugs to police an ANCYL gathering, it is highly corrupt and suspicious that the Sandton Police allowed such hooligamism and allowed our IAW protest to be intimidated and harassed by thugs who claimed to be police (in their CSO armed vests).