Thousands Protest Against Israeli 'Apartheid' In S.Africa

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Agence France Presse
Published — Saturday 9 August 2014



CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Cape Town on Saturday to protest Israel’s military assault on Palestinians in Gaza, in one of the biggest rallies in the city since the end of apartheid.

Demonstrators carried posters stating “Israel is an apartheid state” and “Stop Israeli murder.”

Criticism of Israel is not new in South Africa, and the Jewish state has previously expressed its outrage at comparisons of its policies toward Palestinians with the racist apartheid system.

“We estimate there are well over 30,000 people, and the figure could be as high as 50,000,” Cape Town’s executive director for safety and security Richard Bosman told the national Sapa news agency.

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Pro-Gaza Rally In London Seeks Tougher UK Stand Against Israel

Published — Saturday 9 August 2014


LONDON: Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday, demanding Britain take a tougher line against Israel over its military assault on Gaza.

The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign said 150,000 people attended the march, the third major demonstration for Gaza in London in the past four weeks.

Protesters packed the main shopping artery of Oxford Street, marching to the US embassy and on to Hyde Park, many of them chanting “Free, Free Palestine” and holding up banners saying “UK — Stop Arming Israel.”

The first two protests attracted at least 10,000 people each, according to police, although organizers said it was more like 50,000 each time. Police declined to give a number for Saturday’s event.
Lindsey German, convenor of Stop the War Coalition, an umbrella group of NGOs, said: “The level of anger is unprecedented.

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[BillZBubb]

2. The truth about Israeli policy is now being realized more and more.

It is indefensible and eventually Israel will seek a fair peace or become an international outcast.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Kick for London and Capetown. You never see this on CNN.

[NealK]

4. K&R

[Sunlei]

5. Perhaps SA will open immigration for Pals and show them how anti-Apartheid south africa really is?

2013- “The same government that just one year ago, its police indiscriminately shot and killed 34 miners because they ‘dared’ to strike, and afterward the government even wanted to bring the miners who survived to trial using a law from the days of Apartheid, the same government that does not get involved, and is not concerned by, what happens with its neighbors – not the murder of journalists in Mali, or the terrorist attacks in Kenya – is concerned by what is happening to the Palestinians thousands of kilometers away.”

2013 Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman urged South African Jews to immigrate to Israel on Sunday, following incendiary comments by that country’s international relations minister.