Call on University of Cape Town Council to ratify the boycott of Apartheid Israel
1 April 2019
The brazenness of the Zionist lobby and its so-called “Rule of Law Project” in exerting pressure against the University of Cape Town’s intention to impose an academic boycott of Israeli universities must be challenged by all South Africans, including the ANC government that is required to uphold the obligations of our Constitution.
That Israel is an apartheid state has been repeatedly established by international authorities including the United Nations, but even in 2018 by the Israeli government itself with its Nation State law. Whilst the term apartheid originated in South Africa, its Zionist variant in Israel-Palestine is even worse than we experienced here -- as confirmed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Judge Navi Pillay and Professor John Dugard.
Within “Israel proper,” more than 50 laws discriminate against Palestinian Israeli citizens on the basis of citizenship, language and land. Parallel to the apartheid South Africa’s notorious Group Areas Act, 93 percent of land in Israel is reserved for Jewish occupation only. And parallel to the equally notorious Mixed Marriages Act, marriage between Jews and non-Jews is prohibited.
“Beyond the green line,” the West Bank is a bantustan with even less autonomy than had the “independent” bantustan puppet governments of Bophuthatswana, Transkei, Ciskei and Venda. Even apartheid South Africa never had apartheid roads or apartheid walls, and the dompas was primitive compared with Israel’s vicious ID system that along with Israel’s dozens of control checkpoints deliberately ensures hours of delays in ordinary commuting by Palestinians even in medical emergency situations.