Why do South Africans compare Apartheid to Israel’s occupation?

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4 ай бұрын

For decades, the South African heroes who led the anti-Apartheid struggle in their country compared the repression of white-supremacist Apartheid South Africa to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land.
Ahead of the International Court of Justice’s initial decision on whether it will accept South Africa’s request for provisional measures against Israel - who it alleges has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza - @ainajkhan delves into a brief history of South African allyship with the Palestinian cause.
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@khanyi_zulu 4 ай бұрын

We will ALWAYS stand with Palestine! We will not stop and we will never be silent until Palestine is FREE!!! ✊🏾🇵🇸🇿🇦❤️

@MyName-cw4yr 4 ай бұрын

The Jewish claims to the land predate the birth of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and the creation of Islam..... awkward fact.

@a.a.3291 4 ай бұрын

@@MyName-cw4yrwhat-about-ism. It's not about Judea or Islam, just stop the war. If you disagree, you're more sheep than human.

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

Palestine will never be free. That's what they have obtained with October 7. Israel will decide everything for them.🤣🤣🤣

@muhammadsuleman9328 4 ай бұрын

River to the sea Palestine will be free ❤🇵🇸🇨🇮🇵🇰🇾🇪❤️

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

@@muhammadsuleman9328 Who is going to set them free?🤣🤣🤣

@irmaramirez5873 4 ай бұрын

End the 75 year apartheid!!!

@irmaramirez5873 4 ай бұрын

Thank you South Africa and Yemen 🙏🏻💘💘💘💘💘🇵🇸

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

Two almost invisible countries. The rest support Israel.🤣🤣🤣

@TD1237 3 ай бұрын

Everyone other than the US and Europe wants Palestine free. 🇵🇸 ❤️

@palestineflipbook 4 ай бұрын

Thank you South Africa, FREE PALESTINE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@assalaamu-alaykum 4 ай бұрын

South Africa is the best♡. There is lots of respect and admiration from all over the world..That is what one can call taking true lessons from history and speaking up for humanity ♡..

@fabianpetersen2452 4 ай бұрын

I wish we SA's had this view of these croocks in government

@davy209 9 күн бұрын

When South Africa says that the apartheid system of the Palestinians in the occupied territories is actually worse than their’s, then you know it’s really that bad!

@Pathan109ShortVideos 4 ай бұрын

Alhamdollillah being a South African I'm proud of the step that my country has taken.

@fabianpetersen2452 4 ай бұрын

Wait until the investments dry up since the cronies the ANC keep is not good. We as a country get zero in return for allegiance to Iran, Russia, Hamas and all the depot friends of the ANC. The ANC was handed a bag of coin for the ICJ case not becsuse they have a straight moral compass

@MsLiboma 4 ай бұрын

As a South African Jew am also proud 🇵🇸 ❤

@jagrukmen-life 4 ай бұрын

Jewish Israel destroyed Palestine's houses, schools, colleges, hospitals, mosques and churches. Jewish Israel should rebuild them. Give justice to the Palestinians for the death of innocent people and the destruction of their city. Give better justice to the Palestinians. There is a lot of injustice being done to the Palestinians. #Justice to the Palestinians.

@user-ij7rb2wu9o 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@ajbudda1038 4 ай бұрын

@@user-ij7rb2wu9o so laughs the ZIONIST TROLL that opened their KZbin account ONE DAY AGO. Please keep up your comments like this, as you expose the TRUE face 👹🤥 of ZIONISM. The world is watching and history will judge you accordingly ‼️ 🇵🇸✊✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽

@rachaelik 4 ай бұрын

Zionist Israel, you mean. This is a *Zionist* thing, and not at all a *Jewish* thing. Some of the most vociferous anti-Zionists are (and long have been) Jewish themselves.

@zainrandera9716 4 ай бұрын

To be fair, it is zionism, not Judaism or Jewish people who are perpetrating this occupation. Christians, Jews and Muslims are subject to the brutality of the zionist regime and while the israeli leaders seem Jewish, sound Jewish and look Jewish, they are most certainly not Jewish.

@knochentrocken96 Ай бұрын

Let's call it what they are, zionist Israel did that

@BosnaBosnia-ct3vo 4 ай бұрын

We are all born to be Free... Justice for the Palestinian People🇵🇸

@wytrose4602 4 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness. That is shocking how is this allowed in the 21st century. They have beaten to death the prisoners. Children..died from starvation heart attack we are running out of time. Folks. 😢

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

Boo hoo. Need a tissue? H-mas troll.

@peacelover7000 4 ай бұрын

I wish I were a South African, watching this clip I could not help my tears, anyway I am a Japanese!

@fabianpetersen2452 4 ай бұрын

Bro we have our own genocide of the farmers, very high murder rate, rape capital of the world, BEE apartheid against minorities with a corruption litered government. Your comment hightlights that people are very ignorant which plays very nicely into the hands of terrorists as can be seen with these comments. There is already speculation the ANC was paid for the ICJ case by Iran, since they have zero regards for human life

@StraussBR 4 ай бұрын

I sense the rage of zionists against South Africa

@fabianpetersen2452 4 ай бұрын

Do u want them to let bygones be bygones? This case is really bad news for our investors while we SA's get zero in return for the friemdship of Iran, Russia, Hamas and all their despot cronies

@achmatcassiem6602 4 ай бұрын

@@fabianpetersen2452 You must still be reaping the fruits of the settler plunders. The majority of South Africans are still dispossessed. Delusion!

@SourceAwareness 4 ай бұрын

*"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." - Nelson Mandela*

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

H-mas troll alert!!!!

@MrDandaman2000 4 ай бұрын

@@elkobit7415 yup that guy is on every video in every comment section spreading his love for hamas

@my5092 24 күн бұрын

@@elkobit7415haganah and £pisten troll alert

@irmaramirez5873 4 ай бұрын

Shame on the United States of AIPAC !

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

Shame on you and your H-mas friends. I wonder how many are still alive. can't be many.🤣🤣🤣

@GolamRasulJoarder 4 ай бұрын

Not only South Africa,Every human will support palestine..

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

Wrong. Only Arabs and lefties. The rest have common sense and support Israel. We have seen the October 7 inhumanity of Palestinians and we will never support that.

@mauritsvanoranje6725 4 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, let's start with the apartheid in religion first

@Eli-dt6fn 4 ай бұрын

Thank u, for the mention of "religion". The devil's of the Evangelical Christians, they are big supporters of Israel's Apartheid, AMEN !!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!?!!💀💀💀💀🍶

@EkkoBullie 4 ай бұрын

The man who coined the word “apartheid” was an Afrikaner clergyman of the Gereformeerde Nederduitse Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church), Jan Christoffel du Plessis. It was originally a theological term. Not a political one. Du Plessis was a missionary who worked closely with black members of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State province. He was disillusioned with the way most white clergymen encouraged Africans to give up their culture and adopt European lifestyles and habits. In a 1929 manifesto, du Plessis successfully proposed the church adopt a new policy, which he called “apartheid”. You asked how du Plessis defined apartheid. Well, he complained that blacks were offered “no independent national future” - meaning cultural independence - if the church pressed them into assimilating Western cultural norms and giving up their proud tribal identities as part of their conversion to Christianity. Du Plessis said this was immoral, and the gospel should be presented to them in a way they could understand without compromising their identity. According to du Plessis, “apartheid” meant adopting separate programmes for the evangelization of whites and black Africans. The Dutch Reformed Church’s programme for black African converts, he insisted, should be tailored specifically for them and their unique backgrounds rather than the same one used for Europeans. This would necessitate two different programmes “set apart” from each other, hence the term “apartheid”. So the original definition of apartheid by the man who coined the term would be “parallel but separate approaches towards religious teaching”. Du Plessis mentioned this term in various speeches and sermons he gave throughout the early 1930s. “Apartheid” lost all religious connotation when it was hijacked as a political slogan in 1936. Basically, the Afrikaner politicians decided to take this approach and apply it to an entire country, as in “parallel but separate political and social systems”. Du Plessis lived long enough to regret ever coining the term. He got really defensive whenever people brought up his association with that particular word, and later wrote strongly worded statements in which he insisted “apartheid” had its roots “in this foundational idea of Mission work, and not in racial prejudice”.

@leroypoter2313 4 ай бұрын

You have to remember Israel suppored South Africa racist apartheid regime with an iron fist. 👊

@umaymaahmed8285 4 ай бұрын

Because its such an atrocity one can imagine not only s.africa but all humanity is against oppression anywhere or anyone who go through it

@WDLC1911 4 ай бұрын

I get it. But South Africa is genociding Boers. Keep that same energy in your domestic policy and the Irony of Irony fades.

@achmatcassiem6602 4 ай бұрын

Bloed rivier boer, keeping living in your cocoon. Whites still stay in prime areas and stolen farms. I don't support killing of innocents including boere but start acknowledging Apartheid genocide and then compare it to unacceptable crimes.

@azaniashabari3891 4 ай бұрын

@WDLC1911: Do you realise that racist like you are dying around the world, they own 80% of the land n are minority , your lies won't get you anywhere

@HakimButSouthAfrican 2 ай бұрын

That's literally not happening it's a white supremacist lie that's been around here in South Africa since 1994

@ngalahansel6066 17 күн бұрын

😂😂you are your vain attempt at disinformation. Where did you get this fantasy from?

@WDLC1911 16 күн бұрын

@@ngalahansel6066, you are CHOOSING to be uninformed, obviously.

@irmaramirez5873 4 ай бұрын

🙏🏻💘🇵🇸🙏🏻💘🇵🇸

@aasmanokenichey1744 4 ай бұрын

❤🇿🇦❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇿🇦🇿🇦❤❤🇿🇦🇿🇦Love you South Africa and Yemen 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪

@reporter9698 4 ай бұрын

Why not...................... The real question is why not neighboring countries showing much support by the way salute to.. SA true nation

@hassanmuhammad1659 3 ай бұрын

Because they stand with justice

@tesa360 4 ай бұрын

🙏 🙏

@AbdulKarim.1116 4 ай бұрын

Free Palestine

@EkkoBullie 4 ай бұрын

Apartheid is a policy that is founded on the idea of separating people based on racial or ethnic criteria. Is that not exactly what is happening to Palestinian ? #freepalestine

@mauritsvanoranje6725 4 ай бұрын

Apartheid has nothing to do with separating people based on racial or ethnic criteria. in fact, apartheid is a Dutch word, which clearly you do not know the meaning of

@mutamirmukhzani1240 4 ай бұрын

@@mauritsvanoranje6725I thought it is afrikaans. But segregation nonetheless

@EkkoBullie 4 ай бұрын

@mauritsvanoranje6725 clearly you just commented for attention because The term “apartheid”, an Afrikaans word, derived from the French term “mettre à part”, literally translated to “separating, setting apart. Apartheid is adopted from Dutch apart "separate" (from French àpart; apart ) and suffix added on heid, which is cognate with English - hood . In 1947 (the policy was officially begun 1948), "segregation of European from non-European people," from Afrikaans apartheid(1929 in a South African socio-political context) my first comment is 100% accurate! Thanks. Hope your day gets better and whatever it is you maybe going through you get better ! Best of luck And #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide. 1929 in Africa. Adopted by the Dutch in 1948. It's Afrikaans word!

@EkkoBullie 4 ай бұрын

@mauritsvanoranje6725 you do know that a large part of African country's speak French....no I suppose you would not of made your uneducated comment If you knew that 21 out 54 countries in Afrika spoke French and that is where the word apartheid orginated. No worries I forgive you! But now you know and knowing is half the battle 😊

@mauritsvanoranje6725 4 ай бұрын

@@EkkoBullie ah, and you believe the word aprtheid was not used until the 1900s?😂 Apartheid in art, architecture, design, religion, and so on has nothing to do with dividing people based on racial or ethnic criteria. You dont even know what the word means, let alone where it originates from

@gnightcore5352 4 ай бұрын

Old good times.

@Mohamed-dj7qf 3 ай бұрын

I really love SA

@abolfazlg8666 4 ай бұрын

Free Palestine !!!

@MichProgNerd 4 ай бұрын

And Assange

@johnthomas5039 4 ай бұрын

SA no credibility aprpathsid country

@DLG24 4 ай бұрын

End discrimination. Free Palestine.

@elkobit7415 4 ай бұрын

Watch out. H-mas troll alert!!!!

@aimansafwan1997 4 ай бұрын

Ok Nazi troll.

@AbdulKarim.1116 4 ай бұрын

🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@user-ij7rb2wu9o 4 ай бұрын

@ICJ *no ceasefire, cry harder* 😊

@rachaelik 4 ай бұрын

You DO realize that Israel cannot commit any of the acts in Article 2? If they abide by the preliminary ruling, the effect is the same.

@RachelDerGolem 7 күн бұрын

Israel is just like South Africa except Israel has a larger economy, with only 1/6th the people, 1/50th the land, 1/25th the homicide rate, and 15 years of added life expectancy.