2) The main reason why EDUCATED people oppose Zionism is because Colonial Apartheid States are no longer acceptable, ANYWHERE. Every history department will tell you that the Age of Colonization (1492-1945) was a bad thing for the world.
Why Iʼm fleeing South Africa
by Anne Paton (widow of Alan Paton)
London Sunday Times-DISPATCHES, 29/11/1998
I am leaving South Africa. I have lived here for 35 years, and I shall leave with anguish. My home and my friends are here, but I am terrified. I know I shall be in trouble for saying so, because I am the widow of Alan Paton.
Fifty years ago he wrote
Cry, The Beloved Country. He was an unknown schoolmaster and it was his first book, but it became a bestseller overnight. It was eventually translated into more than 20 languages and became a set book in schools all over the world. It has sold more than 15 million copies and still sells 100,000 copies a year.
As a result of the startling success of this book, my husband became famous for his impassioned speeches and writings, which brought to the notice of the world the suffering of the black man under
Apartheid.
He campaigned for Nelson Mandelaʼs release from prison and he worked all his life for black majority rule. He was incredibly hopeful about the new South Africa that would follow the end of
Apartheid, but he died in 1988, aged 85.
I was so sorry he did not witness the euphoria and love at the time of the election in 1994.
But I am glad he is not alive now. He would have been so distressed to see what has happened to his beloved country. [Without
Apartheid]...
Among my friends and the friends of my friends, I know of nine people who have been murdered in the past four years.
An old friend, an elderly lady, was raped and murdered by someone who broke into her home for no reason at all; another was shot at a garage...
I have been hijacked, mugged and terrorised. A few years ago my car was taken from me at gunpoint. I was forced into the passenger seat. I sat there frozen. But just as one man jumped into the back and the other fumbled with the starter I opened the door and ran away. To this day I do not know how I did this. But I got away, still clutching my handbag...
The situation is exacerbated by the fact that criminals know that their chances of being caught are negligible; and if they are caught they will be free almost at once.
Why the widow of Alan Paton fled South Africa (29/11/1998)
And on and on. Those who condemn apartheid need to consider the reality that has followed it.