Bongani Masuku Returns

One of the drawbacks of writing about antisemitism and its anti-Zionist variant is that, too often, you feel like you’re living the same day over and over again. First there was the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, now Bongani Masuku has reappeared.

I had the dubious pleasure of writing about this most foul of antisemites back in February; almost a year later, he’s turned up in the UK as an honored guest of academic boycott advocates BRICUP. There’s a must-read post by Alana Pugh-Jones on Engage, here. The essence of it: South Africa’s Human Rights Commission has found Masuku guilty of engaging in hate speech. However, since his targets were Jews, I’ll wager that Mike Cushman, Steven Rose, Jonathan Rosenhead and their BRICUP colleagues will be positively salivating at the thought of escorting him around British campuses.

4 Responses to “Bongani Masuku Returns”


  1. 1 ami

    And see http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/12/03/bricup-and-bongani/
    where your previous post is cited to great illustrative effect

  2. 2 modernity

    “you feel like you’re living the same day over and over again.”

    I couldn’t have put it better.

    Once you’ve swatted down one Jew hater another appears….as if by Harry Potter magic!

  3. 3 David Schraub

    Anybody have a link to the actual HRC report?

  4. 4 jacob arnon

    “One of the drawbacks of writing about antisemitism and its anti-Zionist variant is that, too often, you feel like you’re living the same day over and over again.”

    Yes, and the antisemites know this which is why they keep repeating the same lies again and again hoping to exhaust everyone.

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