Johnathan Paoli
The Al Jama-ah party has applauded Sports, Arts and Culture Deputy Minister Peace Mabe’s recent condemnation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing athletes from Israel to participate in the Olympic games, which is a stance against his principal – Minister Gayton McKenzie.
Spokesperson for the party, Sinazo Mtshengu, said on Tuesday, that in light of South Africa’s own experience of boycotts during the 1970s, it felt the need to defend Mabe from McKenzie’s criticism.
“Let us categorically say to Minister McKenzie: there is nothing anti-semitic in calling for the banning and expulsion of the Zionist Israel from these games, and nor is there anything wrong in condemning this pariah state’s distasteful acts of violence and genocide against Palestinians,” Mtshengu said.
The spokesperson said this call by Mabe joins many others, including nation states like Columbia and civil society organisations such as Jews for Justice to ban
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