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Honor Mandela by viewing Palestine with the same moral clarity as apartheid South Africa | Mondoweiss
Apartheid South Africa
Aprtheid Israel/palestine
It should come as no surprise that there is a long history of South African solidarity with the Palestinian people, who like black South Africans are jailed, beaten, and killed while struggling for their own freedom. Nelson Mandela expressed his solidarity with the Palestinian struggle in simple but compelling terms. Today, Desmond Tutu actively supports the divestment campaigns of SJPs at the University of California, and Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in prison alongside Mandela, works to freePalestinian prisoners subjected to conditions he, Mandela, and many others once faced.
In the same interview in which she compared the situation in Palestine to her countrys own past, Nkoana-Mashabane declared that the struggle of the people of Palestine is our struggle. Today we must join her in solidarity with the Palestinian people, or else bury the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
In 1974, there was a network of blacks-only areas, known as bantustans, outside of which blacks were not allowed to go. These bantustans were turned into independent black mini-states, cut off from each other and denied access to the resources of the South African state. Today, the West Bank is carved up into much the same network of isolated islands, cut off from water resources, fertile lands, and each other. Those islands are surrounded by a system of segregated roadsand a network of checkpoints and walls (that we are invested in) that attempt to make their isolation permanent. Comparing the Palestinian territories in the West Bank to the bantustans from South Africas past, South Africas International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said the last time I saw a map of Palestine, I couldnt go to sleep It is just dots, smaller than those of the homelands, and that broke my heart.
Apartheid South Africa
Aprtheid Israel/palestine
It should come as no surprise that there is a long history of South African solidarity with the Palestinian people, who like black South Africans are jailed, beaten, and killed while struggling for their own freedom. Nelson Mandela expressed his solidarity with the Palestinian struggle in simple but compelling terms. Today, Desmond Tutu actively supports the divestment campaigns of SJPs at the University of California, and Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in prison alongside Mandela, works to freePalestinian prisoners subjected to conditions he, Mandela, and many others once faced.
In the same interview in which she compared the situation in Palestine to her countrys own past, Nkoana-Mashabane declared that the struggle of the people of Palestine is our struggle. Today we must join her in solidarity with the Palestinian people, or else bury the legacy of Nelson Mandela.