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| | The Berlin daily B.Z. titled its article about the BDS activists at the trial: “It is so shameful. Disgusting hatred of Jews in and in front of the Berlin courtroom.” Sinai’s conviction appears to be the first criminal penalty for violent BDS activity in Germany. | | The Berlin daily B.Z. titled its article about the BDS activists at the trial: “It is so shameful. Disgusting hatred of Jews in and in front of the Berlin courtroom.” Sinai’s conviction appears to be the first criminal penalty for violent BDS activity in Germany. |
| | The paper reported about the anti-Israel extremist: “Lecturer Stavit S. is guilty. She hit the door of the hall ‘wildly’ from the outside, injuring two people... Either she pays €450, or sits in prison for 30 days.”''</ref> | | The paper reported about the anti-Israel extremist: “Lecturer Stavit S. is guilty. She hit the door of the hall ‘wildly’ from the outside, injuring two people... Either she pays €450, or sits in prison for 30 days.”''</ref> |
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| | + | ===Mcebo-Dlamini=== |
| | + | Wits University SRC president Mcebo-Dlamini (2015) praised Adolf Hitler<ref>Gary Selikow, [https://www.sajr.co.za/historical-proof-of-palestinian-admiration-for-hitler/ History of Palestinian admiration for Hitler]", May 2, 2015. |
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| | + | While I’m disgusted by the praise for Hitler by Wits SRC President Mcebo Dlamini, one should not be surprised, because the Palestinian relationship with the Nazis goes back a long way. |
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| | + | A set of particularly bloody pogroms spread across “Palestine” from 1936 to 1939, known as the Arab Revolt in which hundreds of Jews were murdered and the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin also liquidated many of his Arab political opponents. Haj Amin was aided at this time by fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. |
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| | + | In exile in Lebanon, Haj Amin deepened his association with Germany and Italy, receiving large amounts of money and arms from them. |
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| | + | The French news weekly, Marianne, quoted several examples of Nazi ideological influence among the Palestinian Arabs: “At Nablus, the Arab population recently received the British troops with shouts of ‘Heil Hitler!’” |
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| | + | A certain German garage in Jerusalem employed only Arab Nazis, who were made to wear the swastika over their buttonholes. |
| | + | The Arab journals Falastin and Al Difa’a published every week articles with a racial tendency and frequently reproduced large portraits of various leaders of the Third Reich. They did not even try to conceal the fact that they had become pupils of the ministry of propaganda in Berlin, according to Marianne. |
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| | + | Hitler invited Arabs to Germany as honoured guests and in the 1938 Nuremberg address he spoke about “the defenceless Arabs in Palestine, left in the lurch”. |
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| | + | An Arab spokesman in Jerusalem reacted promptly by declaring: “Now we are not without friends in Europe; our ultimate success as a nation lies in the hands of Hitler and Mussolini.” |
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| | + | Hitler was regarded by many Arabs across the Middle East as a popular hero and Arab movements based on Nazism were founded in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. |
| | + | Hitler went to Rome, where he received an assurance from Count Ciano, promising to abolish the Jewish national home in “Palestine”. |
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| | + | From there Hitler was set up as an honoured guest in Berlin, where he was installed as “Grossmufti” or “Grand Mufti”. |
| | + | Haj Amin set up an Arab Legion, to fight as part of the Nazi war effort and organised Muslim Wehrmacht units and a Muslim SS unit in Yugoslavia that was responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, and also Nazi Muslim units, alongside German forces in the Soviet Union. |
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| | + | His major role was to intercede with Axis governments to prevent the evacuation of thousands of Jewish children to “Palestine”, and redirect them instead to the death camps. |
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| | + | Dieter Wisliceny ... I heard him say that accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz.” |
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| | + | In a 1974 conversation between Syrian President Hafez Assad and Druze politician Walid Jumblatt, Assad stated that the Arabs “remembered Hitler in a positive way” after which Jumblatt agreed: “At least he saved us from the Zionists… National Socialism should be revered a bit.”</blockquote></ref> for killing white people as opposed to other leaders, who he said had killed only black people.<ref>Ziyanda Ngcobo and Kgothatso Mogale. "[http://ewn.co.za/2015/05/05/Students-indifferently-with-suspension-of-SRC-president-Mcebo-Dlamini "SRC president's suspension: Wits students speak out]". EWN spoke to students from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) to get their reaction around the recent suspension of SRC president Mcebo Dlamini. (May 5, 2015)</ref> |
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| | + | Dlamini even defended his comments following outcry from, he went in to make that outrageous diabolical Hitler's historical action comparisons.<ref>"[https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SRC-president-unapologetic-about-love-for-Hitler-20150428 SRC president unapologetic about love for Hitler]". News24, 28 Apr 2015.</ref> He's a BDSer.<ref>David Saks, "[https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/israel-bds-campaign-is-both-divisive-and-malicious BDS campaign.Israel: BDS campaign is both divisive and malicious – NEWS & ANALYSIS | Politicsweb]". www.politicsweb.co.za. 04 July 2015.</ref> |
| | + | ===Lwazi Lushaba=== |
| | + | South African BDS supporter at UCT: 'Hitler committed no crime.' The UCT lecturer Lwazi Lushaba told freshman political science students during his lecture. |
| | + | "All Hitler did was to do to white people what white people had normally reserved for black people.” (2021)<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/south-african-bds-supporter-at-uct-hitler-committed-no-crime-664633 South African BDS supporter at UCT: 'Hitler committed no crime'], Jerusalem Post Staff, Apr 9, 2021.<blockquote>The University of Cape Town (UCT) is currently investigating a BDS activist who "defended Adolf Hitler" while lecturing students, the Algemeiner reported. “Hitler committed no crime," UCT lecturer Lwazi Lushaba told freshman political science students during his lecture, according to the report. |
| | + | "All Hitler did was to do to white people what white people had normally reserved for black people.” |
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| | + | UCT said that the matter was of "grave concern" and that they will be investigating the incident.“We are verifying all the facts,” a UCT spokesperson said, according to the Algemeiner. |
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| | + | “In the meantime, the university is clear that all brutalities of genocide constitute both formal crimes against humanity and ongoing sources of pain. We distance ourselves very strongly from any other view.” |
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| | + | The comments were brought to light on Holocaust Remembrance Day. One student, who's grandfather perished in the Holocaust, described the events as a bit much to handle. “Hitler didn’t just persecute Jews," the anonymous student said. "He also persecuted black people, [Roma] and disabled people." "Six million people died in the Holocaust and the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day has been a part of my life,” he added. “To think that the comment that Hitler committed no crime would ever fly and not become an issue is insane.” |
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| | + | Other students noted that Lushaba has been known for hate speech "since he got his doctorate." He is also known to be a loose cannon, with violent public outbursts following the election of the UCT Dean of Humanities.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | ===See also=== | | ===See also=== |