Pandor is a brazen anti-Semite

In response to Richard Chemaly’s recent column: “What’s ICJ changed in Gaza?”, I can only offer my most heartfelt support. With all the noise Minister Naledi Pandor, pictured, and the ANC have been making about winning their court case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), it’s nice to see someone who can cut straight through the nonsense, and point out how like everything else about the ANC, it’s empty to its core.

The ICJ didn’t chuck out the case entirely, it’s true, but it did almost nothing that the SA legal team wanted it to. Why? Because the ANC never really had a case.

Don’t believe me? Here is a direct quote from John Spencer, the head of urban warfare studies at the US prestigious West Point military academy: “Israel has implemented more measure[s] to prevent civilian casualties in urban warfare than any other military in the history of war.”

He backs up this position in a lengthy thread on X, and proves that however tragic every civilian death is, not only is Israel not committing genocide, it has done everything it can to keep civilian casualties as low as possible.

The ANC have been cynically using this tragic war to deflect from its own myriad failings and we South Africans should not fall for it.

Which is why Jennie Ridyard’s letter, “bravo to Pandor, now time for SA” is so hard to swallow.

Pandor is no “queen”, Ridyard. She is a brazen anti-Semite who after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust decided to ring up those responsible to offer her support.

South Africa remains a liberal democracy, but we should all be worried that on the world stage we are represented by someone like Pandor who forsakes other liberal democracies for tyrants, dictators, and radical Islamist extremists.

Ilan Preskovsky