South Africa denies supporting Hamas - but they do

Al Jazeera reports:

Zane Dangor, director general of South Africa’s Ministry of International Relations, strongly denied the allegation made by Israel’s foreign ministry yesterday that South Africa is “functioning as the legal arm” of Hamas.

“South Africa’s legal team represents the people of South Africa,” Dangor said after the ICJ hearing, adding his country is pursuing the genocide case at the ICJ “because we want to stop more harm to Palestinians and it is in the interest of justice.”

Dangor also denied Israeli claims that South African officials praised Hamas following its October 7 attack, saying, “It is something we reject with contempt.”

The statements from South Africa in the immediate aftermath of October 7 shows a consistent pattern of blaming Israel and exonerating Hamas for the slaughter of Jews. 

Their official statement only blamed Israel:

“SA expresses its grave concern over the recent devastating escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The new conflagration has arisen from the continued illegal occupation of Palestine land, continued settlement expansion, desecration of the Al Aqsa mosque and Christian holy sites, and ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people.”

If you cannot condemn mass murder, kidnapping and rape, and you blame the victims, you are condoning war crimes.

But it gets worse:

(Ruling party) ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri accused Israel of being a “blatant apartheid state that methodically imposes privilege on Jewish Israelis' behalf and discriminates against Palestinians”.

“As a result, the decision by Palestinians to respond to the brutality of the settler Israeli apartheid regime is unsurprising. The ANC stands with the people of occupied Palestine as it is clear that the degenerating security situation is directly linked to the unlawful Israeli occupation,” said Bhengu-Motsiri.

Additionally, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor spoke by phone with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh only ten days after the attack. Hamas announce that she has congratulated them; Pandor denies that. But she did attend a socialist conference a week after the attack wearing a keffiyeh to show which side she was on.

In short, South Africa did not say a negative word about Hamas when other African nations condemned the terror group. 

Saying that they are representing Hamas at the ICJ may not be literally true but it is not an exaggeration. Even Hamas says so..

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