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We strongly condemn singing of "dubula e juda" - Geffen & Isaacs

Nathan Geffen - Doron Isaacs
30 August 2013

Activists also express dismay over BDS SA coordinator's attempt to justify behaviour of Wits protestors

Statement on events at Wits University

On 28 August protesters at the Daniel Zamir concert at Wits University sang "dubula e juda" ("shoot the Jew"). We condemn this slogan in the strongest terms.

We were dismayed to read that Muhammed Desai, coordinator of BDS South Africa, justified this behaviour. Desai reportedly said, "Just like you would say kill the Boer at [a] funeral during the eighties it wasn't about killing white people, it was used as a way of identifying with the apartheid regime". He is further quoted, "the whole idea anti-Semitism is blown out of proportion".

We are committed to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, equality and justice. It is an extremely difficult struggle waged against one of the most effective and dishonest propaganda campaigns in history. Anti-Semitism, besides being personally insulting to us, scores an own-goal. It undermines the struggle for Palestinian freedom.

Above all it is a form of racism with a catastrophic history which must be rejected by all decent people.

Israeli leaders wrongly claim to speak on behalf of all Jews but this does not justify anti-semitism. The history of Jewish persecution is abused to justify oppression of Palestinians, but this can never justify anti-semitism. The compelling evidence that organisations such as the SA Zionist Federation used racial profiling to control access to the Daniel Zamir concert, which we also condemn in the strongest terms, can never justify anti-semitism.

We support BDS South Africa's right to protest but the behaviour of the protesters and Desai's subsequent comments simply cannot be justified. We call on BDS South African to issue an unequivocal apology and to commit to stamping this out.

Statement issued by Nathan Geffen and Doron Isaacs, August 30 2013

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Just when we thought NAZI-ism was dead......

......along with HITLER and company.

Along come the Liberating Nationalist HITLER wannabes.......

This is the ugly face of the pure evil manipulative nature of criminal cabals draped in the clothes of Afro-nationalism.

The . .more

by John Austin on August 30 2013, 23:17
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Do ends justify the means?
Beyachad did not racially profile ticket sales, they had the foresight to know what they were up against and they took preventative measures to ensure that those who sing shoot the Jew, do not even get so close as to lay a finger on a Jew, or on any other . .more

by Gilad Cohen on August 31 2013, 03:41
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Further to the above
It is no coincidence that I had dreams that night that I was chauffeuring Adolf Hitler about in a Mercedes whilst I watched his soldiers commit atrocities against my own people. If it were not for Wits Campus Security and staff things would have spiraled . .more

by Gilad Cohen on August 31 2013, 03:47
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the sick and twisted will always be with us
Hearing these hatemongers,is like listening to nazi speeches in prewar Berlin.
This Desai and his cohorts need to be prosecuted for hatespeech. It's already been ruled that the kill the boer slogan is hatespeech,so in the face of that fact,the hate . .more

by Pedro on August 31 2013, 05:52
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Was that the 770 Mercedes Gilad
What a machine. 7.7 lt of supercharged power. You dont mess about in your dreams boet. Mine are only about Kubelwagens and Rommel, if I am lucky.

by Guy Mullins on August 31 2013, 11:54
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Raymond Suttner's response
Raymond Suttner's response to this appalling behaviour by BDS South Africa is up on his blog at: http://raymondsuttner.com/2013/09/01/raymond-suttner-the-campaign-against-apartheid-israel-and-the-slogan-kill-the-jew/

by V on September 01 2013, 11:58
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Guy was a 123 dreams are never factual
770 is beautiful

by Gilad C on September 01 2013, 12:17
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Tehillah Niselow
If anyone has not seen the video here it is

http://youtu.be/9ssMGadx1g8

You will see a white girl there smiling with the protestors. Her name is Tehillah Niselow. She is a Zionist, um I mean a Jew. A self hating Jew. Even as the her . .more

by Fatty on September 01 2013, 22:47
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Tehillah Niselow reasoning
To understand why she hates her own people is very simple. She was engaged to a nice Jewish Australian boy. When he and his family realized she was a bit strange he dumped her (lucky boy).

That has made her into a rabid anti Semite and also make . .more

by Fatty again on September 01 2013, 22:50
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racial profiling to control access
I was at the concert, I am neither white nor a Jew, so I don't know how Messrs Geffen and Isaacs can talk about racial profiling at the concert and not come across as liars. . .more

by Susan on September 01 2013, 23:26
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Raymond Suttner's response
Suttner calls Israel and "apartheid" state, unless "apartheid" means equal under the law with constitutionally enshrined rights for all Arabs including the right to vote then he's a liar.

by Tracy Borgin on September 01 2013, 23:42
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The Concert
If the concert had not discriminatory intentions, then why were blacks who were present mostly from outside South African borders? Let us not loose focus here. The main reason for the demonstration was WITS university's blatant disregard of the wishes of . .more

by Olifile on September 02 2013, 08:18
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I just wonder where
all those that now condemn the singing of "dubula e juda" was when

JZ783 sang "umshimi wham" (hand me my machine gun) and

Peter Mokaba sang "One settler one bullet" and

Julius Malema sang "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" . .more

by James Bell on September 02 2013, 09:35
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@Geffen and Isaacs
Now you know who your friends really are. do you think that because you are against the occupation of the West bank that you are their comrades. They hate you as much because you are also jews.

by js on September 02 2013, 10:55
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Olifile, you're just plain wrong
To say that Israel discriminates against "non Caucasians" is plainly wrong - as a majority of Israeli Jews are from Mizrahi decent. Mizrahim, for your benefit, are Jews who lived in the Middle East for millennia, until being ethnically cleansed by Islam. . .more

by Shana on September 02 2013, 11:58
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@ Olifile
Your claim that the concert was discriminatory because the blacks in attendance were from outside South Africa is bizarre.

I was there, I'm South African, and I'm black. As where my 5 friends.


by Susan on September 02 2013, 12:04
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@Susan,Shana et al
Could we please focus on the subject and not me as a person. @ Susan I said "mostly" which meant majority of blacks were not of South African origin. @Shana If you had also cared to listen to the tapes you would know what I meant by discrimination. Let us . .more

by OIifile on September 02 2013, 15:45
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@Olifile
So, you acknowledge black people attended but because a majority, according to you, were foreign that somehow makes it discriminatory? If you “know” Apartheid you should know that Israel, the only full democracy in the Middle East is not an Apartheid . .more

by Shana on September 02 2013, 20:54
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RUPSF Statement
The statement by the Rhodes University Palestine Solidarity Forum is online here: http://readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/09/statement-of-opposition-to-failure-of.html

by Ben on September 03 2013, 09:23
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Hypocrisy
And suddenly they realized the genocidal nature of that song. Now that's funny.

by Andreas Meyer on September 10 2013, 18:48
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Jews had better leave South Africa before they are killed.
The only South Africans objecting to "shoot the Jew" are Jews. Perhaps there will soon be Jew hanging parties to hang Jews.

http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/7464.html

Poles had a fabulous time in Cracow; watch them . .more

by Martial on September 19 2013, 04:06
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