Yet, the South Africans put out documentaries like this.
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South Africa demonstrates that BDS is a valid method to counter occupation and oppression and can provide a peaceful means of resolution to the conflict.
Roadmap to Apartheid
The idea of apartheid and the concept and actions of BDS are fully linked because of the South African experience. The documentary
Roadmap to Apartheid (2012) by Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson highlights the parallels between what happened in South Africa and what is happening in Palestine. Beyond the parallels, the commentators from South Africa indicate that Israel is worse than their situation actually was, and—perhaps more revealing—is that the two countries worked together on military and security resources, up to and including nuclear weapons.
At the beginning of the movie and continuing throughout are powerful visual segments comparing actions in South Africa with near identical actions Palestine. The colonial nature of settlements, the expulsions of indigenous people, the occupation of lands, and the setup of separate areas for the indigenous—the actual apartheid—is well documented. The Boers in South Africa invoked their ‘god given rights’ to the land, and the architecture to enforce that involved passes and blockages to control the native population. Similarly in Palestine there are internal ID cards and over 600 manned checkpoints operating at the discretion of the military. This is informed by the S.A Council of Churches recognizing the continuous checking by military junta duties assigned for the soldiers.
Later in the documentary, the amount of land and its control mechanisms are emphasized. In S.A. 80 per cent of the population—the blacks—lived in bantustans that were theoretically “advanced to independence.” The whites in S.A. controlled over 87 per cent of the land (do the math: 13 per cent land for the 80 per cent population) and described the indigenous population as “foreign natives.” In parallel 90 per cent of Palestinian land is reserved for Jews only with the descriptor applied to the indigenous Arabs as “present absentees.” Both terms are self-contradictory and purely racist in functional terms. The whole idea, as expressed by Ali Abunimah, is to create an “artificial majority.”
A Review of the Documentary Film 'Roadmap to Apartheid' | Foreign Policy Journal
