The ANC takes sides with the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel. Its partisan approach to an intractable problem excludes it from any meaningful role in diplomacy and problem-solving. It still fancies itself as a revolutionary movement and offers comfort and friendship to the world’s worst: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Hamas and Fatah (the despotic Palestinian leadership), among other totalitarian dictatorships and terrorist organisations. Its latest friend is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a fringe group whose raison d’être is to harm Israel, not help the Palestinians. The ANC thumbs its nose at Western democracies that embrace Israel: almost to the day when the German parliament passed landmark legislation condemning the BDS movement as inherently antisemitic, the ANC published a statement applauding itself for downgrading SA’s relations with Israel in the name of all South Africans. The most important states and cities in the US have legislated ...
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