Nobel Laureate and former Archbishop of South Africa, Desmond Tutu has compared Israel’s Palestinian policy to South African Apartheid. Like so many others, he cannot understand how a Jewish State could descend to such a regime.“In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to feel strongly with the Jews. I am patron of a Holocaust centre in South Africa. I believe Israel has a right to secure borders.
"What is not so understandable, not justified, is what it did to another people to guarantee its existence. I've been very deeply distressed in
"What is not so understandable, not justified, is what it did to another people to guarantee its existence. I've been very deeply distressed in
my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about.”
Archbishop Tutu was speaking at a conference, “Ending the Occupation”, held in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the guiding light and chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is now Visiting Professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in the USA.
Archbishop Tutu was speaking at a conference, “Ending the Occupation”, held in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the guiding light and chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is now Visiting Professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in the USA.