Wesley Seale

flict.”

In sum, the documentary tells the story of the 18 cows wanted by the Israeli army because they were considered a national threat to the security of Israel.

They were simply producing milk on a Palestinian collective farm.

Last night’s academic seminar on “The Balfour Declaration at 100 years” was the highlight of the week. Keynote speaker, anti-Apartheid struggle veteran, Professor Farid Esack, now a leading BDS and Palestinian activist spoke on “Zionism and the colonisation of G-d.”

Esack is a full-time academic at the University of Johannesburg and has just returned from Germany and France where he was on a speaking tour for BDS. He dismissed the notion of making the Israeli/Palestinian conflict a religious one.

Esack was joined on the panel by Professor Fred Hendricks, former Dean of the Humanities faculty at UCKAR, and Mr Eddie Cottle who serves on the national Palestinian Solidarity Committee.

Cottle outlined a politics of solidarity in the effort to revive a Palestinian Solidarity group in Grahamstown. Hendricks, on the other hand, spoke on the hot topic of land in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and drew parallels with apartheid South Africa.

Yet is it justifiable to label Israel an apartheid state?

Barak’s concern of an Israeli law being imposed on Israeli’s living in the West Bank, as mentioned a Palestinian territory, helps us understand this question.

One law for Israelis, another for Palestinians. Never mind that it is absurd to think that a state, anywhere else in the world, could impose its laws on the residents of another country albeit citizens of that state.

Yet we know that this is what happened in apartheid