{"id":39748,"date":"2014-02-17T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:11:05","slug":"ten-reasons-that-the-anti-apartheid-movement-is-immoral-hinders-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/02\/ten-reasons-that-the-anti-apartheid-movement-is-immoral-hinders-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons That the Anti-Apartheid Movement Is Immoral, Hinders Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The segregated stands of a sports arena in Bloemfontein, South Africa, May 1, 1969. (UN Photo\/H Vassal)<\/p><\/div>\n

Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed <\/a>in <\/i>Haaretz on Wednesday [12 Feb 2014] giving his top 10 reasons that boycotting Israel is immoral.\u00a0What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this.<\/i><\/p>\n

The anti-South African movement threatens the reconciliation process by promoting extortion rather than negotiation, and discourages blacks from agreeing to any reasonable peace offer.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

By Alan M. Dershowitz<\/p>\n

1. The anti-Apartheid movement immorally imposes the entire blame for the continuing Apartheid and the Bantustan policy on South Africa.<\/p>\n

2. The current anti-Apartheid movement especially in Europe and on some American university campuses, emboldens the blacks to reject compromise solutions to the conflict.<\/p>\n

3. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because its leaders will never be satisfied with the kind of two-state solution that is acceptable to the government of South Africa.<\/p>\n

4. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because it violates the core principle of human rights: namely, \u201cthe worst first.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because it would hurt the wrong people.<\/p>\n

6. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because it would encourage the Soviet Union and China.<\/p>\n

7. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because it focuses the world\u2019s attention away from far greater injustices, including genocide.<\/p>\n

8. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because it promotes false views regarding the Afrikaner people, exaggerates the country\u2019s flaws and\u00a0thereby promotes a new variation on the prejudice against them dating back from a century earlier.<\/p>\n

9. The anti-Apartheid movement is immoral because it reflects and encourages a double standard of judgment and response regarding human rights violations.<\/p>\n

10. The anti-Apartheid movement will never achieve its goals.<\/p>\n

This article is a parody of Dershowitz\u2019s original article.<\/i><\/p>\n

Read more:<\/b><\/p>\n

The boycott isn\u2019t economic warfare, it\u2019s psychological<\/a><\/p>\n

The academic boycott of Israel: No easy answers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sol Salbe is an Israeli-Australian journalist and translator based in Melbourne. He has spent the last 13 years as a full-time monitor of the Israeli media looking particularly at the differences between Hebrew and English-language coverage of events. His specializes in translating and disseminating articles, and segments of articles, which have not been made available in English.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday [12 Feb 2014] giving his top 10 reasons that boycotting Israel is immoral. What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}