Status Updates From Die Welt nach Gaza

In a 1993 speech, Nelson Mandela expressed an enduring public sentiment: ‘the people of South Africa will never forget the support of the state of Israel to the apartheid regime’.

During this project of social engineering, state authorities are reported to have taken newborn babies away from Yemenite Jewish mothers, regarding them incapable of raising children, and passed them on to Ashkenazi parents. As Ben-Gurion put it emphatically: ‘We do not want the Israelis to be Arabs.’

As mobs mouthing the xenophobic slogans of mainstream politicians rampage through the streets of the US, UK and Germany, and Muslims protesting the Western-assisted slaughter in Gaza are denounced as traitors, the old affinities between the West’s war-making abroad and race-making at home become too garishly apparent

…..tried to persuade its Western European friends to insert a racial equality clause in the Covenant of the League of Nations. The proposal was squashed by A. J. Balfour, one of the leaders of the British delegation, and the godfather of the State of Israel, who said he could not believe ‘that a man in Central Africa was created equal to a European’.”

“At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919,a range of Asians, Africans, Americans&Europeans came together to identify and critique white supremacism.Japan,which had fought with the Allied powers,tried to persuade its Western European friends to insert a racial equality clause in the Covenant of the League of Nations.The proposal……

In their master narrative, increasingly threadbare after Donald Trump’s twin victories but still being recycled by anti-communist historians such as Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum, Western democracies were/are permanently ranged against totalitarian or authoritarian enemies.

The OAU resolution was quickly reformulated that same year by a majority in the United Nations General Assembly that equated Zionism with racism.