Palestinian Operation al-Aqsa Storm resonates with South Africans

The Palestinian struggle for liberation is one that resonates with South Africans who faced a similar regime, with recent developments in the region highlighting how some have not abandoned their past racist ideals. 

The developments in Palestine stir up a range of emotions in South Africans, religious, humanitarian, historical, and personal.

As a young person when I participated in the struggle against apartheid, I could immediately identify with the Hamas fighters breaking out ... It was a moment of excitement, a moment in which I would have wanted to step out of the ghettos in which we were living.

And I could fully understand and appreciate the frustration under which the people of Gaza have been living and the fighters of Hamas have been operating.

Cassiem Kha, Anti-Apartheid Activist

• South Africans empathize with Palestinian struggle
  

  South Africans identify with Palestinian Operation al-Aqsa Storm

  The Palestinian struggle for liberation is one that resonates with South Africans who equally faced a similar regime.

But for others the ongoing Israeli atrocities over successive campaigns of terror, against the Gaza Strip in particular, have shown them the true face of Zionism.

The subjugation of the Palestinian people is nothing but racism. And therefore, irrespective of from which perspective we come, if we are serious about it, and if we have a shred of humanity, we must be opposed to racism.

Protestor 01

• Some Israeli military personnel collaborated in al-Aqsa Storm
  

  Some Israeli military personnel collaborated in al-Aqsa Storm: Report

  An informed Palestinian official has reportedly said part of the Israeli military personnel collaborated with resistance groups in the recent surprise attack against the regime.

I desire to stand for humanity and justice. What is going on in Palestine today has no equivalent with anything else we have seen in this world.

 Protestor 02

• France criminalizes any public expression of support for Palestinian resistance
  

  France criminalizes any public expression of support for Palestinian resistance

  France’s minister of justice has stated that any form of public support for resistance against the Israeli regime is a criminal offense.

The whole world has looked away. That's what they have resorted to. And now for me, I've said we need to continue to stand with them to show that they are not alone.

And they don't need to listen to other media outlets where they say that they are the bad ones; that other people believe in their struggle and their cause.

Protestor 03

• EU: Israel breaking international law with regard to Gaza blockade
  

  EU: Israel breaking international law with regard to Gaza blockade

  ‘The United Nation has already said that cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food, to a mass of civilian people is against international law’..

In fact, it is quite disappointing. It's distasteful. It's embarrassing that we still have South Africans that have experienced about it, and still support Israel.

Protestor 04

But it is that cohort of South Africans that protesters came to deliver the message to.

The Zionist center in Cape Town has been quiet, but, South African Zionists are actively involved in the Israeli aggression and routinely send over South African citizens to fight in the Israeli occupation force.

Protesters have demanded that the South African government take action against them.

As Palestinians continue to face the brutally racist Zionist regime, those who had just the mere taste of Zionism's twin sister in South Africa, have vowed to keep up protests.

• Despite being banned Pro Palestine protests took place in Paris
  

  Despite being banned Pro Palestine protests took place in Paris

  Demonstrators gathered in Paris to demand that Palestinians be given their human rights and that Western governments end their complicity with Israel.

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