Jewish Board confronts Masuku threats against Jewish community

Update at 30/03/2009

See update concerning the Board's exaplanation of what they hope to achieve at the Human Rights Commission at bottom of post.

The SA Jewish Board of Deputies has issued a press statement indicating that they have laid a formal complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission against Cosatu’s International Relations secretary Bongani Masuku.

Masuku has been featured extensively on this blog for his crazed outbursts against South African Jews who support Israel. Amongst other things, he has called on Israel-supporting Jews to leave South Africa (said in an email to me) and threatened students at Wits University that he (and Cosatu I assume, as he was representing them at the talk) would make their lives “hell”.

The Jewish Board have made the correct decision here and I hope we finally get some decent press coverage of this unacceptable situation.

Hopefully next week we will get comment from the Jewish Board around what sort of ruling they are looking for. Watch this space.

25 March 2009 The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) today laid a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission against Bongani Masuku, International Relations Secretary - Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), in response to numerous inflammatory, threatening and insulting statements made by him against the Jewish community. On frequent occasions, both in public forums and in writing, Masuku has used overtly threatening language in reference to the mainstream Jewish community because of its support for the State of Israel. Specifically, he has openly stated that COSATU will target Jewish supporters of Israel and “make their lives hell”. SAJBD National Chairman Zev Krengel said that various statements made by Masuku constituted serious breaches of the Prohibition of Hate Speech as contained in The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, nr 4/2000. “The SAJBD firmly supports the right to freedom of expression, but not to the point when it infringes on the fundamental right of others to equality and human dignity as enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Calling for the expulsion of and inciting harm against one’s fellow citizens because of their political views crosses the line between legitimate comment and prohibited hate speech, and this is what Mr. Masuku has been guilty of” he said. Masuku has declared that Jews who support Israel are not welcome in South Africa and should be forced to leave. He has called on COSATU’s members to target Jewish businesses and to confront Jews who support Israel wherever they might be, even if this means doing something that, in his own words, “may necessarily cause what is regarded as harm”. He has further threatened that COSATU will take vigilante action against Jewish families believed to have members serving in the Israeli Defense Force. “What he has said could reasonably be construed as an intention on his part to cause harm against South African Jews. It can also reasonably be said to demonstrate a clear intention to promote or propagate hatred against the Jewish community” Krengel said.

Cosatu are a member of the ruling ANC tripartite alliance. A vote for the ANC is a vote for Cosatu.

Update at 30/03/2009

On Friday I asked the Board about the ruling they were hoping to achieve at the SA Human Rights Commission and their response follows.

"The Jewish Board would like to see Musuku strongly censured for his statements, and for them to require him to desist from any further inflammatory statements and hate-speech against the Jewish community".

"We want the HRC to ensure that Jewish South Africans are entitled to express their views, like everybody else in this country."

Previously at IAS

• Bongani Masuku at Wits - "we will make your lives hell"
• Bongani Masuku calls on Jews to leave South Africa
• A message for IAS readers from Masuku
• My correspondence with Masuku

Comments

[Gary]

I wonder if the same "Jews" who signed the petition condemmning the SAJB for supporting Israel, will now get another one condemmning the SAJB for taking action against Masuku, and say that Masuku was actually perfectly correct.

[the pil]

I think that question of yours (Gary) should be put to them? How can one do that without it turning nasty?

[Religous Fundamentalist 1]

I refer the readership to Mr Ezra Levant and his struggle against the thought police. See ezralevant.com

As odious as Masuku's views are, they are best aired publicly and the population at large can then laugh at his risible "intellectualism" and abhorrent bigotry.

The Human Rights commission is a short cut to pushing him underground and martyrdom in the short term, and a general clampdown on freedom of speech in the long run.

Short of libel or calls to violence, which are prosecutable under common law (in brief), free speech should be dearly protected, at least until the UN starts prosecuting blasphemy.

[Gary]

Errrh...RF1. Masuku did make very explicit calls to violence.

[Religous Fundamentalist 1]

errh...Gary.That's not obvious from the quotes included in the post. And moreover doesn't take away from the point. errrh.

[The Blacklisted Dictator]

Dear Patrick Craven,

As you are aware, I attended Bongani Masuku's recent tirade at Wits University:

http://supernatural.blogs.com/weblog/2009/03/bongani-masuku-at-wits.html#comments

Unfortunately, Masuku did not tell the Zionist students precisely what methods Cosatu will use to force them out of South Africa.

As a precursor to "forced emigration", Masuku said that Cosatu would make the lives of all Zionists... "hell". What precisely did Masuku mean??...

(1) After the election, is Cosatu going to arrest such students and take them to special Cosatu camps for re-education?

(2) Will such camps be open to Red Cross observers?

(3) Will South African Jewish students be tortured or will they just have to attend anti-zionist lectures?

(4) Will Cosatu supply kosher food or will it be run on Nazi guidelines with limited non-kosher rations?

It is important that Cosatu now informs the SA electorate exactly what methods they will use to deal with The South African Jewish Question.

viva
blacklisted

[Gary]

RF 1, are you dense or dsid you just not read the post?
"to confront Jews who support Israel wherever they might be, even if this means doing something that, in his own words, “may necessarily cause what is regarded as harm”. He has further threatened that COSATU will take vigilante action against Jewish families believed to have members serving in the Israeli Defense Force".

How much more baltant does he have to be. What if I said the same thing about Muslims who support 'Palestine', I'd still be in prison.

Are you here to discuss things or just to play the role of an aggravating and abrasive mosquito?

[Mike]

I agree with Gary. I think this is clearly hate speech. There was definitely incitement to violence against Jews.

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I'm trying to raise the subject of freedom of speech and that incitement to violence should be dealt with in a court of law. Some vaguely defined notion of 'the right not to be offended' should not be prosecuted by a kangaroo court of touchy feely human rights. Ergo Levant.

Try focus on the topic Gary.

As an aside, I'm not aware that "harm" is exclusively used in the sense of physical violence. In any event, I'm not disputing the point.

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