I’m a South African, writing from Cape Town.

When my cousin recently told me that he wanted nothing more to do with me, he said that it was because I was anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic (a “self-hating Jew”), and anti-Israel. He went on to explain why he was a Zionist and why I disgusted him. He said that with the end of apartheid, South African whites lost their exclusive power and became just a minority in South Africa. The same, he said, would happen to Jews in Israel if Palestinians and others were given equal rights — Israel was a Jewish state for Jews, and the result would be that Jews would just become a minority in Israel just as whites became in South Africa.

I think that what he said is a fair explanation of the Zionist motivation.

Zionists cannot claim that such incidents reflect aberrant attitudes and conduct, and are thus not what Zionism means. In fact, what they display are the inevitable and essential consequences of what lies at the heart of Zionism exactly as stated by my cousin. One cannot be just a little bit racist any more than one can be only slightly pregnant. In the old South Africa, people (including my cousin’s own family) were revolted — and said so, loudly — by the prospect of doing things like eating a meal at the same table, using the same lavatory, being served at the same counter and trying on the same clothes in shops, using the same beach, park benches, and public transport, and entering and leaving buildings by the same doors, as black people. Under apartheid, it was thus impossible to define hate speech and conduct and to distinguish it from what was “acceptable”.

Zionists have the same problem if they try to define what was “acceptable” Zionism and what is not. The videos merely record the acting-out of the Zionist project using coarse language.

To de-legitimise such conduct and to transform the national culture totally, we South Africans had to engage in a resolute struggle to end to apartheid and to draw up a new constitution with a Bill of Rights — and the task of transforming the national culture totally is not finished yet.

Under Zionism, such a process is unthinkable.

Mervyn

Last week a kindergarten in Tel Aviv that took black children had a Molotov cocktail thrown at it.

What have black children done that is so bad that justifies burning them to death?

But if I had been through this, I would now be making arrangements to get out of the country. Not because of my personal safety with my countrymen, but because of what the country is becoming.

In my own uneducated opinion, it seems that Israel has, over the decades, taken in the hatred and bias that was directed against them in WWII, and internalized it. Now they are using it to limit the freedoms of others, even as the Nazis did to them.

Abused children often end up abusing others, and this seems the cultural equivalent.

It might or might not come to bloodshed, but it WILL if it keeps going the way it is.

Consider the nazis were fringe in the beginning…and then they weren’t.
The French revolutionaries were very fringe at first …and then they weren’t and Louie and Marie lost their heads.
Castro was fringe in Cuba …and then he wasn’t.
The list could go on and on…never underestimate fringes.