Popular column from 2015: Jews are again the ultimate scapegoat
IT IS necessary to call things by their right names. When former Wits University student representative council (SRC) president Mcebo Dlamini wrote "I love Hitler" on Facebook, he was responding to a comment that said "Hitler knew they were up to no good". Dlamini’s comments shouldn’t be dressed up as anything else than what they are: Jew hatred. Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib subsequently removed Dlamini as SRC president after a lengthy disciplinary process. Habib said the firing was unrelated to the Hitler comments, though it is hard not to link the two. Among Dlamini’s vocal supporters are those who style themselves as the Higher Education Transformation Network. "In capitulating to the interests of Jewish funders and alumni at the institution, Prof Habib has in our opinion, rendered himself a puppet who had to sacrifice the academic future of … Dlamini on the altar of political correctness," the group said in a statement. And so we move from #RhodesMustFall to #HabibMustFall be...
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