Human rights obligations: ANC has no moral high ground to preach down to Israel

 

South Africa: Human rights obligations - ANC has no moral high ground to preach down to Israel

FF Plus

June 25, 2021

Human rights obligations: ANC has no moral high ground to preach down to Israel

On 24 June 2021, during a motion in the Gauteng Legislature on Israel’s attitude towards Palestine, the FF Plus made it very clear that the ANC has no moral high ground to be able to point a finger at Israel.

It is ironic that the Gauteng ANC government dares to debate Israel while the ANC itself is failing to fulfil its own national and international human rights obligations.

The ANC supports Hamas – an organisation that aims to eradicate all Jews in the Middle East and that is complicit in undermining bona fide attempts at establishing peace. Thus, the ANC must realise that it is siding with anti-Semitism.

The ANC clearly demonstrated its moral fibre when the party actively protected and helped the then President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, to escape from South Africa.

The ANC did this while the International Criminal Court (ICC) had already issued warrants for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

What makes the ANC’s conduct even more despicable is that Al-Bashir’s crimes had been committed against fellow Africans, while the ANC always seems to pride itself on the fact that it advocates for the protection of Africans. Therefore, the ANC has no moral standing.

Furthermore, and closer to home, the ANC is actively discriminating against minorities. Through legislation, white people are prevented from getting jobs and running businesses. Minorities’ right to mother-tongue education is actively being diluted, while there are also attempts to disarm them and to dictate what may happen and what may be believed in the area of religion. All of this is happening amid a context where minorities are increasingly being demonised.

It is very ironic that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that creates space for minorities in public life, Parliament and government. In fact, there are Arabic minority parties that are currently part of the ruling coalition government in Israel.

In Palestine, people’s general life expectancy is 74 years, while in South Africa it is just 64.

So, the Israeli state must be allowed to work out its own peace plans with the Palestinian people – without Hamas.

The ANC certainly has no moral high ground to preach down to Israel.

Adv Anton Alberts, FF Plus.

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