Protest Leader Defends Singing "Shoot The Jew" At Israeli Jazz Concert in South Africa
A South African student group that supports an economic boycott of Israel shrugged off allegations that their calls to “shoot the Jew” during a concert by an Israeli saxophonist last week were anti-Semitic.
The performance by the Daniel Zamir Israeli Jazz Quartet, led by Zamir (pictured), an Israeli jazz musician, took place at University of the Witwatersrand --popularly known as Wits University -- in Johannesburg last Wednesday.
Protesters from the group BDS, which stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, gathered outside the university’s Great Hall where the concert was waking place and began singing a song originally called “Dubul’ ibhunu,” a song featuring a refrain that means, “shoot the Boer.” The song was a protest against South Africa’s former apartheid regime which fell in 1994.
Only this time, the protesters changed the song to “Dubula e Juda,” which translates as “shoot the Jew.”
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