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ANC advantaged by keeping youth in dark
The 16 young ANC-affiliated students and business leaders should be commended for their bravery in going on a recent fact-finding trip to Israel. They are brave, not only because they knew the anti-Israel sentiment that many ANC leaders and (all) BDS supporters hold and that they would be chastised for their trip.
Michele Engelberg
But they are also brave to challenge their own beliefs about Israel that these two organisations had no doubt previously influenced.
Of course the ANC-“aligned structures” and BDS don’t want South Africans to travel to Israel. Seeing is believing and if they were to actually observe Israeli society, they would see that the apartheid analogy is a myth.
Now that these youths are back, the forces at work are trying to intimidate and bully them. They cannot be changed now. They know the truth! They have seen and experienced Israel and know that the BDS has been “hiding the truth from them” and many others.
Perhaps this will be another catalyst that will take votes away from the ANC. The DA has at its helm a new leader – its first black leaders Mmusi Maimane. He said he left the ANC after coming to believe that its driving goal was to preserve its members’ interests.
This clash over a mere 16 young South Africans visiting Israel, falls right into the same category of these organisations looking after their own interests and keeping the public in the dark (literally these days!).
But true leadership requires that one look inward and acknowledge that one has responsibilities to others, and in that truthful acknowledgment, one can explore and admit to being mistaken and to changing one’s rhetoric.
Johannesburg
nat cheiman
July 29, 2015 at 1:04 pm
‘BDS and ANC want people to see Gaza because that where the ANC are taking this country. BDS don’t care about the ANC . The ANC is a useful ally at the moment and BDS will eventually turf them out because they are infidels. Meanwhile back at the ranch the BDS and its allies are going to have sore rectums because all over the world people are sick and tired od BDS, migrants, terrorists, radicals and lunatics that want to make a point by wearing bomb vests etc. Apart from the fact that Israel is not too far away from kicking Irans a*se.
That in itself will make BDS disband. COWARDS.’