The South African government emerges as a moral giant over Gaza

The collective West will forever stand disgraced and exposed, due to its blind support of Israel’s genocidal slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 7. What passes for governance in Washington, Bonn, Paris, London et al. has forced us all to bear witness to infanticide, high crimes and war crimes without end these past few months. Said crimes have been committed not in the name of self-defence but rather in the name of ethno-nationalism, settler-colonialism, and white supremacy.

Israel’s ability to act with impunity is a feature of the innocence it has claimed to enjoy as the national home of a Jewish people whom Hitler marked out for extermination in a European Judeocide which ranks as a crime of the ages.

The tragic aspect to this horrific episode in ‘European history’ is the cynical fashion in which a Zionist movement, rooted in the ethnic cleansing of a people deemed to belong on a lower rung of a malign cultural ladder, manipulated it in order to achieve its aims.

The mantra of ‘never again!’ has, ever since, been deployed as a sword against a people and region entirely innocent of the attempt to…