Democracy offers the best political arrangement in a secular and religiously diverse state for recognising and respecting the dignity of human beings - all of whom, according to Christian scripture at least, are made in the image of God, writes Craig Bailie.
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Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng needs to understand that criticising Israel for its human rights violations is not anti-Christian, writes
Roshan Dadoo.
In a significant victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) has instructed Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to retract statements that he made on Israel s occupation of Palestine, and apologise unconditionally to the South African BDS Coalition and two other pro-Palestine groups that had submitted complaints to the JCC.
The complaints centred on the statements that the Chief Justice made during a webinar hosted by the right-wing Israeli newspaper,
The Jerusalem Post, in June last year. Mogoeng headlined the event, along with South Africa s Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, and the discussion was marketed under the theme Two Chiefs, One Mission .
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.