{"id":15161,"date":"2012-10-31T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=15161"},"modified":"2012-10-31T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:16:04","slug":"south-africas-ruling-party-endorses-anti-israel-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/10\/south-africas-ruling-party-endorses-anti-israel-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s ruling party endorses anti-Israel boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15162\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/geraphian20121029180340173.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15162\" title=\"geraphian20121029180340173\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/geraphian20121029180340173.jpg?resize=490%2C275\" height=\"275\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The African National Congress (ANC), which controls two thirds of the South Africa\u2019s National Assembly endorses the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Senior members of South Africa\u2019s ruling party have endorsed a boycott campaign against Israel, with former South African deputy president Baleka Mbete calling Tel Aviv \u2018far worse than apartheid South Africa\u2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">During an international conference hosted on Sunday by the African National Congress (ANC), which controls two thirds of the National Assembly, delegates endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;On the occasion of the third ANC International Solidarity Conference, we call on the ANC to support the Palestinian people in their fight for freedom, justice and equality&#8230;,&#8221; BDS said in its statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Responding to an objection from a German delegate, who said Tel Aviv cannot be compared to South Africa during the apartheid era, Mbete, who is also ANC chairperson, said Israel was actually \u201cfar worse than Apartheid South Africa,\u201d according to a press release published by the BDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Ms Mbete received a resounding round of applause from delegates for articulating this position,\u201d the release added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The conference also included in its declaration a demand for the release of all Palestinian political prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">About 1,000 delegates from South Africa and across the globe, mostly former anti-apartheid activists, trade union representatives, religious leaders and various other progressive and left-wing groups attended the ANC\u2019s third International Solidarity Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">PG\/MA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2012\/10\/29\/269416\/sa-ruling-party-supports-israel-boycott\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior members of South Africa\u2019s ruling party have endorsed a boycott campaign against Israel, with former South African deputy president Baleka Mbete calling Tel Aviv..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,84],"tags":[228,197,200,204,227,345,272,351,211],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-international","category-statements","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-racist-oppression","tag-reactionary-watch","tag-south-africa","tag-world-history","tag-zionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geraphian20121029180340173_15161_8f5a7.jpg?fit=650%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}