Kesher Talk

A distrubing march in South Africa: A march last Friday, arranged by the radical Muslim group Kibla to show Muslim solidarity with Palestinians “living under Israeli occupation,” has shocked the Jewish community of South Africa. The march coincided with the 55th anniversary of the 1947 United Nations partition resolution, which led to the establishment of the State of Israel — an event also marked an hour earlier by a pro-Israel Christian group demonstrating outside Parliament.

Two youths marching in support of the Palestinian cause wore Hezbollah headbands, followed by eight other young people carrying mock weapons. They led more than 300 demonstrators from a mosque close to downtown Cape Town to the U.S. Consulate, about a mile away. The marching children, some as young as seven, carried placards stating: “Death to America, death to Israel.” Marchers shouted, “One American, one bullet,” echoing a slogan using during the apartheid years to refer to white South Africans — one settler, one bullet.

The march organizers asked the protesters to stop chanting these slogans.

The children also staged a mock attack on a model of an Israeli tank and ripped apart an Israeli flag. Outside the U.S. Consulate, an Israeli flag was burned amid chants of “Death to Israel, death to Sharon.” (JTA)

posted by Howard @ 12/02/2002 07:54:07 AM