The equation used to be Zionism = Apartheid. It was a formulation that drew
attention to the racist practices of two of the most notoriously racist states,
South Africa, under the policy of Apartheid, and "Israel" in its current
formation. Yet these days, Zionism = Apartheid seems a little hackneyed and
feeble and almost quaintly liberal in its formulation. It does not attend to the
raw, unrestrained, and insouciant murderous brutality of both states - and it is
oblivious to zionism's genocidal mandate. Indeed "apartheid," which means
"separateness" or "apartness" in Afrikaans, was not premised on the complete
elimination of the African as the African was necessary as the laboring and
serving class to the white settler population. (Although, most certainly, for
many white South Africans, elimination would have been preferable). Yet what
Palestinians have always known, and what is now becoming clear to the rest of
the world, is that Zionism is not about separation, or even Apartheid; it is
about the absolute elimination of Palestinians on a biological, cultural, and
historical level. There is no other reason to murder both children and poets and
destroy both hospitals and universities.
In this light, Zionism does not equal Apartheid. Zionism equals Nazism.
Zionism equals Nazism. And, as the South African Pan-Africanist Victor
L. Makyekiso once wrote, Apartheid South Africa and the Zionist state both share
philosophical origins, genocidal mandates, and often personnel with Nazi
Germany. In a 1969 essay titled "Fascist South Africa and Zionist "Israel" -
Hitler's Heirs," Makyekiso carefully plots the links between the three entities
- down to the twisted use of religious claims to justify state
violence. Makyekiso also points to the ways that zionism serves "the selfish
interests of international imperialism led by U.S. Imperialism."
-- Cont'd at https://blackagendareport.com/essay-fascist-south-africa-and-zionist-israel-hitlers-heirs-victor-lungelo-mayekiso-1969
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