- ESSAY: Fascist South Africa and Zionist "Israel" - Hitler's Heirs, Victor Lungelo Mayekiso, 1969 Archived Message
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on February 14, 2024, 3:43 pm
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Editors, The Black Agenda Review - 14 Feb 2024 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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