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The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the.
During his attempt to prove that he is not “anti-Jews,” Chikane declared that he supports the two-state solution and the right of Palestinians to return to their “homes.” Ironically enough, Chikane missed the contradiction when he denied the right of Jews to return to
their homes. (More about that below.)
When the story of the reverend’s February 6 anti-peace rant broke in South Africa, Chikane tried to sound a bit conciliatory, telling the SAJR that while he should have used simpler language, he didn’t mean what he said literally, and he doesn’t support violence or terrorism: “People can disagree with me, but they don’t have a right to distort what I said.”
We can say to the perpetrators of this crime against humanity: Enough!
The fact that we are not doing so must be one of the gravest moral crises of our time.
In this age of political spin and fake news, it is perhaps only fair to allow for the fact that there are many who may not know the facts on the ground in Palestine and Gaza. Many may not know that, scattered in countries in the Middle East, there are refugee camps where Palestinians who were forced to leave their homes in Palestine decades ago by Israel, live as stateless people. Many still hold the keys to their ancestral homes, but are denied the right of return by Israel.