We strongly condemn singing of "dubula e juda" - Geffen & Isaacs
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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......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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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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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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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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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 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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770 is beautiful
by Gilad C on September 01 2013, 12:17
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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