South African Jews hit back against BDS with Mandela billboards

[Fozzledick]

Campaign intended to counter BDS campaign that "hijacks Mandela legacy."

The South African Jewish community has placed billboards along a major highway in Johannesburg quoting Nelson Mandela as a means of countering the BDS movement.

The billboards, which cite the founding father of post-Apartheid South Africa as supporting Zionism as legitimate Jewish nationalism, among other things, are intended to counter "efforts by the BDS campaign and anti-Israel lobby in SA to hijack the legacy of Nelson Mandela in showing his support of the Palestinian agenda as a one-sided affair," Ben Swartz, one of the campaign's organizers explained.

The BDS movement recently announced that it was bringing former PFLP airline hijacker Leila Khaled on a speaking tour throughout the country.

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/South-African-Jews-hit-back-against-BDS-with-Mandela-billboards-390607

[King_David]

1. Very strong Zionist Jewish community in South Africa

Ask Justice Goldstone who retracted he's whole report.

[azurnoir]

2. apparently Mandela was a friend of Arafat's

here some more reality apparently Mandela was a friend of Arafat's

Meotti writes that in 1990, “Mandela likened Israel to a ‘terrorist state’ and declared that ‘we do not regard the PLO as a terrorist organization. If one has to refer to any parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied territories.”

Further, “In 1999 Mandela supported the Palestinian Arab use of violence. With Arafat seated next to him in Gaza, Mandela declared: ‘All men and women with vision choose peace rather than confrontation, except in cases where we cannot proceed, where we cannot move forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence,’” Meotti writes.

http://www.vosizneias.com/148660/2013/12/08/jerusalem-in-op-ed-italian-journalist-says-mandela-was-an-enemy-of-israel/

[King_David]

3. So what

[grossproffit]

4. Good. eom