Church leaders from South Africa, returning from a trip to territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority, recently announced they will continue to support the boycott Israel movement. Leaders included heads of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, Evangelical Alliance of South Africa and the Dutch Reformed Church.
One representative claimed that as a “South African, [he] felt like walking into another apartheid ambush” and that his group “witnessed violations of international human rights law…on so many levels” during the trip.
The delegation, which was invited by Palestinian Christian groups, went on to stress that it unequivocally supported the BDS movement, “a strategy that helped us to end apartheid in South Africa.” The group added that their “urgent appeal to the international community proposes resistance to Israel’s occupation as an act of love.”
(Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center / YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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WHAT HYPOCRITES! These are the granddaddies of apartheid! They’ve been bathing in black blood for centuries. Now they come to the only democracy in the Middle East, where Arab and Christian enjoy the same rights as Jews (except for being drafted by the IDF) and THEY scream apartheid?