“The control of America, just like the control of most Western countries, is in the hands of Jewish money and if Jewish money controls their country then you cannot expect anything else.” These words were spoken by South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Fatima Hajaig, at a Palestinian solidarity rally organized by the Cosatu trade union federation in the town of Lenasia on January 14th.
Jewish leaders in South Africa have now lodged a complaint of hate speech against her. Wendy Kahn of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies correctly declared: “Deputy Minister Fatima Hajaig had crossed all limits.”
Observes David Saks:
Comrade Fatima’s brazen invocation of the spectre of Jewish money exercising its malign behind-the-scenes influence in shaping world events was greeted with a particularly enthusiastic roar of appreciation by the audience. She even used the words “Jew” and “Jewish” rather than the code-word “Zionist”.
In addition to such revolting conspiracy theorising, various other speakers at the Lenasia rally made threatening statements against the local Jewish community.This included calls that anyone with Zionist sympathies be expelled from the country, that “Israeli” businesses be boycotted (a list of Jewish-owned businesses is in fact now doing the rounds within the Muslim community and further afield) and that action be taken against South African Jews who served in the Israeli military.
As the consistently excellent It’s Almost Supernatural blog points out, it was a shameful day in South Africa.
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This lady not only crossed the line but she provoked violence, hatred and ontinued to mis-inform the spectators. It’s not hard in Lenasia to get Muslims, Indians or their likes to spew hate about Jews and israel. Jews in South Afric are in the monority of the monority. So these dispicable people bully and pick on the small, and vounerable as all nasty bullies do. For a monister to take such a position makes things personal and she probably embarrases her department? Does she get fired? No because the ANC-Cosatu- SACP are a tri-party alliance of uneducated lunatics who just want to destroy the West. Israel is a Western nation in the Middle East. Go figure!!!
Drew calls for Fatima Hajiag to be replaced immediately!!!