It’s been a bizarre and disturbing day. I have nothing to add to David T’s take on the Prime Minister who quoted an obscure raving antisemite in the hallowed surroundings of Davos. But if we’re shopping for quotes, examine this one, from the South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Commenting on Deputy Foreign Minister Fatima Hajaig’s Hitlerian speech at Cosatu rally, Dlamini-Zuma’s spokesman said:
Minister Dlamini-Zuma wishes to assure the general public that there has not been any change in the South African foreign policy. Accordingly, statements in support of anti-Semitism are not reflective of the South African foreign policy.
That’s it. Antisemitism is a domestic matter. No denunciation, no criticism, not even any shock. Let the persecution begin.
“Shameless Erdogan
Even the shameless Turkish leader Erdogan, joined the critics of Israel. Shameless, because it behooves him to keep his mouth shut. His country legislated laws that forbid mentioning the crimes perpetrated against the Armenians. If Israel had adopted the Turkish model, a third of all lecturers in the faculties of social sciences and humanities in Israeli universities would be imprisoned, because in Israel inflating the “Nakba” and other anti-Israel rhetoric actually lead to academic promotions…
Let’s remind Erdogan of the tens of thousands of Kurds killed or slaughtered in the campaign to keep them quiet and subdued. Let us remind him of Leyla Zana and the short speech she made when elected to the Turkish Parliament. She didn’t support terrorism. She didn’t praise the lobbing of rockets from Kurdish to Turkish villages. She didn’t call the Kurds “Shahids.” Nothing like that. All she did was conclude her short speech with the words: “I take this oath for the brotherhood between the Turkish people and the Kurdish people.” Her crime? She had made that “terrible” statement, only that final statement, in Kurdish. According to Turkish law, speaking that language is a crime. She lost her parliamentary immunity and was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration. When she wrote something from inside her jail, a further two years were added to her sentence.
Tell this to the Arab members of the Israeli Knesset. If judged according to your own laws, Mr Erdogan, they would all be rotting in jail. Now you are the object of their admiration. Hypocrisy has always been a quality some of them admire most. Now it’s your turn, as well.”
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/01/chapter-2-war-crimes-and-the-failure-of/index.shtml
Laugh if you will but South Africa officially and for the next 100 years is sole owner of the word ‘apartheid’ and will therefore be allowed to do whatever it wishes domestically. And no one would dare raise their voices in objection to that. South Africa is very high on a short list of countries that will try some sort of quasi-legally-rationalized pogrom in the near future. Be it expulsion, elimination or restrictions on citizenship, or economic sanctions, taxes and the like, on Jews in SA, it’s almost certain they are coming.