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South Africa and the Middle East
[...] Jewish and Lebanese ethnic populations in South Africa have factored in relations with Israel and Lebanon. [...] the area of primary foreignpolicy interest for both Apartheid-era and current South Africa leadership has been Southern Africa.
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THE IRONY OF IT ALL
“Don’t expect me to put up with your Jewish identity,” warned Harvard Professor Farid Esack, Nelson Mandela’s former Gender Equality Commissio ner, “if it involves a relationship of marginalization, subjugation and expulsion of other people.”¹ Esack’s discussion centered on the Muslim trope, Zionism equals Apartheid. This narrative pervades the Muslim-Jewish debate in South Africa today, dominating the lives of Jewish students on university campuses there.
With overt denunciations and discrimination against Jews considered unacceptable since the Holocaust, anti-Zionism has become the new mode of antisemitism. This is particularly clear on South African university campuses. As one Jewish student wrote, indicating
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Zionism and Apartheid: Strange Bedfellows or Natural Allies?
Mazrui claims that the international isolation which Israel now shares with South Africa is a consequence of parallel efforts to implement culturally separatist ideologies within each state. As evidence for his provocative thesis, he discusses the situational similarities between Israel and South Africa, the normative congruence between Israel and South Africa, and the trend toward greater economic and military cooperation between the two.
An example of the similarities in approach lies in the strategies of ethnic preponderance pursued by both states. The dream of apartheid is to eventually create a “white” heartland by pursuing a “homelands” policy that would strip South African citizenship from those belonging to a Bantustan. Similarly, the logic of creating a Jewish state in Palestine has required that the great majority of citizens be Jewish. This has been achieved both through discriminatory immigration practices (Israel's Law of Return) and by brutal intimidation of the Arab Palestinian population.
The author concludes his extensive discussion by noting that the exclusivist strategies historically and currently employed by the two states have led them into a natural alliance as outlaws in the international arena.
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Foreign Aid and Voting Patterns at the United Nations: The Israeli Case in Africa
Unlike previous studies in the field of foreign aid and political interests, which have focused primarily on the United States’s attempt to gain political support at the United Nations (UN) through foreign aid, this article focuses on the correlation between the foreign aid provided by Israel to seven African countries and those countries’ voting patterns in the UN with regard to Israel affairs. This research argues that foreign aid is a key instrument in Israel’s effort to strengthen its ties in Africa. Its findings highlight a positive correlation between foreign aid and political support, as expressed by African countries’ voting patterns at the UN.
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Israel and South Africa
Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied territories amounts to a system of oppression no less brutal or inhumane than that of South Africa's white supremacists. Similarly, boycott and disinvestment campaigns comparable to those employed by anti-apartheid activists have attracted growing support. Yet while the 'apartheid question' has become increasingly visible in this debate, there has been little in the way of genuine scholarly analysis of the similarities (or otherwise) between the Zionist and apartheid regimes. In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé, one of Israel's preeminent academics and a noted critic of the current government, brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law, activism and policy making. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, Israel and South Africa offers a bold and incisive perspective on one of the defining moral questions of our age.
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