The DA and PA’s shameful complicity in genocide

WHAT does it take for South African politicians to recognise genocide when they see it? When the bones of Palestinian children protrude from mass graves? Already, hospitals have been reduced to rubble with patients still inside.

- USUF CHIKTE

Journalists have been targeted for assassination to prevent their truth telling. Mosques, churches, schools and universities have been willfully destroyed. An entire population is being subjected to bombardment and systematically starved under the world’s gaze.

The Democratic Alliance and Patriotic Alliance’s recent whitewashing of Israel’s crimes during their so-called “fact-finding mission” isn’t just willful blindness. It’s active complicity in genocide. Their claim of finding “no evidence of apartheid” is as morally bankrupt as those who once denied our own suffering under apartheid.

While these MPs sipped coffee with their Israeli hosts, Gaza was enduring wholesale slaughter by the IDF as Israel broke the ceasefire agreement during the Holy Month of Ramadaan, and unleashed on Palestinians:

@ The deadliest 72 hours since October 2023 when Israeli forces slaughtered 700 Palestinians in a single night, including killing 200 children who were bombed in their beds during Ramadaan preparations.

@ The murder of 50 000 dead and counting,

600 000 now without clean water after Israel sabotaged Gaza’s last desalination plant,

20 neonatal ventilators sitting at borders blocked by Israel, while babies suffocate.

@ This isn’t collateral damage. It’s the Zionist endgame - Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, chillingly termed the “final warning” to Palestinians. The parallels to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto are undeniable: walls, starvation, mass graves, and the world’s silence.