TONY Ehrenreich, leader of the African National Congress in the Western Cape, recently had this to say: "The time has come to say very clearly that if a woman or child is killed in Gaza, then the Jewish Board of Deputies, who are complicit, will feel the wrath of the people of South Africa with the age-old biblical teaching of an eye for an eye."The time has come for the conflict to be waged everywhere the Zionist supporters fund and condone the war killing machine of Israel."His virulent anti-Semitism and hate speech is hardly surprising as it is driven by a hate and frustration that he cannot contain.First, he sees Israel as white, although this is far from true, and therefore treats Israel (and/or Jews interchangeably) as a proxy for whites. He feels free to call for the eye-for-an-eye death of Jews only because he thinks he can get away with it, whereas he can’t (yet) get away with calling for death to whites.Second, he, as a communist (together with leftists, "progressives", no...
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