S. Africans Stage Massive Pro-Palestine Rally
Thousands of South African Muslims participated in massive rallies in different important cities of the country to defend the rights of the Palestinian people against the Zionist regime of Israel.
The South African Muslims in Pretoria gathered in the city on Sunday to show their support for the oppressed Palestinian people. They issued a statement to condemn the Zionist regime's crimes. In the statement, they called for boycotting Israeli goods, cutting relations with the Zionist regime and closing the regime's embassy in Pretoria. In a relevant event last week, South Africa and the South African-Palestinian Alliance launched a billboard campaign in Pretoria and Johannesburg maligning Israel while highlighting the plight of the Palestinian refugees. Also, 12 billboards titled "Palestine loss of land 1946-2021" were put up in the Central Gauteng Province of South Africa. The billboards posted this week are composed of four aligned maps showing the Palestinian lands usurped by Israel from 1946 to the present, along with a declaration that "4.7 million Palestinians are classified by the UN as refugees". South African pro-Palestinian organizations are following up on an initiative in suburban New York, where three months ago a pro-Palestinian organization in New York placed a similar ad in the Chappaqua train station, in Westchester County. The South African organizations also purchased billboard spaces in Pretoria and Johannesburg, where the same ads have been displayed.