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 wipe European Jewry off the map, rather than a shield to ensure that the crime of genocide never re-occurs against any people, anywhere, and at any time again in human affairs.

Which brings us to the current Government of the Republic of South Africa’s quite stunning intervention in bringing legal proceedings against the State of Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, under the auspice of The Genocide Convention, brought into international law by a nascent United Nations in 1948.

Israel, predictably, has come out swinging against what it views as the temerity of any government to dare accuse it of genocide. The accusation of blood libel has been levelled at Pretoria, in other words anti-Jewish racism, along with a litany of baseless slurs. Here, again, we are invited to adhere to a rendering of the Holocaust which holds that violence unleashed by the State of Israel is done so in the name of dead…