ANC advantaged by keeping youth in dark

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