Pro-BDS Leader Faces Lawsuit Over ‘Jewish Soap’ Tweet

A South African pro-BDS leader is facing concerted backlash for a tweet he wrote that painted the Holocaust in glowing terms because of the Jewish soap it gave the world.

It’s a sickening message.

And it’s one that goes like this: “For those claiming the legacy of the holocaust is ONLY negative think about the lampshades and Jewish soap.”

https://twitter.com/Mngxitama/status/900558350131367937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.algemeiner.com%2F2017%2F09%2F05%2Fas-university-of-cape-town-debates-israel-boycott-south-african-pro-bds-leader-faces-legal-action-over-jewish-soap-holocaust-tweet%2F

That was hardly his only disgusting message.

https://twitter.com/Mngxitama/status/905081465477660675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.algemeiner.com%2F2017%2F09%2F05%2Fas-university-of-cape-town-debates-israel-boycott-south-african-pro-bds-leader-faces-legal-action-over-jewish-soap-holocaust-tweet%2F

At least there’s backlash — and possibly, legal ramifications.

Algemeiner has more of the story:

The leader of a black nationalist organization in South Africa with close ties to the BDS movement is facing legal charges over a virulently antisemitic social media post.

On Monday, South Africa’s Jewish Board of Deputies (BoD) announced it was launching legal proceedings against Andile Mngxitama‚ the leader of the radical Black Land Black First (BLF) movement, over an August 23 tweet in which he remarked, “For those claiming the legacy of the holocaust is ONLY negative think about the lampshades and Jewish soap.”

Mngxitama later sent out a further tweet referring to “the aroma of the burning flesh from the furnace of the holocaust may wet [sic] the appetite of the SA cannibals.”

Announcing its decision to take Mngxitama to South Africa’s Equality Court — which adjudicates on matters including discrimination and hate speech — the BoD said his comments‚ “in addition to the distress they have caused to the Jewish community‚ have been greeted with widespread outrage throughout South African society.”

The statement continued: “The SAJBD has, therefore, decided to approach the Equality Court to vindicate the violation of our rights to dignity and to prevent comments such as these from being made in the future.”

Mngxitama reacted to the announcement with a series of tweets indicating his willingness to see the SAJBD in court, adding that he saw himself as a “victim” who was now being turned into a “perpetrator.”

Mngxitama’s BLF organization is rooted in South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s. Bitterly opposed to the ruling ANC, the BLF demands the “immediate expropriation without compensation” of land owned by South African whites, and its redistribution to blacks “as the rightful owners of this country.” Mngxitama himself is known for his clashes with the law, only last month violating a court order when he tried to enter a media event in Cape Town connected with the ANC. Supporters of the BLF are also reported to have harassed and intimidated journalists who cover the group’s activities critically.

The proceedings against Mngxitama come against the background of a new push inside the University of Cape Town (UCT) — one of the premier educational institutions in Africa — to impose a full academic boycott of Israeli academics and institutions of higher education. Among the groups prominently backing the boycott is the UCT chapter of Mngxitama’s BLF.

Following last week’s reporting of the proposed UCT boycott and its potential to run afoul of US laws to counter boycotts of American allies such as Israel, supporters of the move hit back with an opinion piece in the Sunday Argus newspaper.

“Not for the first time in UCT’s recent past, the university is facing a dilemma,” the article declared. “Whether to capitulate to the groans of the South African Zionist community, or whether to promote the human rights and academic freedom of Palestinians by implementing an academic boycott of Israel.”

The article then went on to add that any conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism was “worn-out propaganda that only still has traction in the minds of a few regressive Zionists.”

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Suresh

6 years ago

when you do not arrest , penalise (at least $10,000 for first offense) for such nasty vile threats this will continue.

Its takes Patriots like Hungarian govt to tell the muslims and Left/Liberal pro-islam loons to get out. They expelled dutch ambassador for his pro-islam remarks http://bit.ly/2gh6A72

THAT is what a country needs if you want to protect it from becoming another Islamic hellhole.

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caliroxanne

6 years ago

I can’t comprehend the sick, dark and hate-filled heart of this disgusting troglodyte!

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

Hollow him out and make a wet suit out of him.

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AlgorithmicAnalyst

6 years ago

Someone needs to tame the wild beasts.

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Eugene Kaptur

6 years ago

Please note: “You can take the African out of Africa, but you can never take Africa out of the African!” While most of the World’s Peoples became civilized through hundreds of thousands of years, this cannot be said for many Black Africans, who still live and act like recent arrivals from the Stone Age!

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020

6 years ago

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pipo

6 years ago

Mngxitama is wrong, South Africa did not exist until the Dutch settlers founded Capetown. The black people have no claim as such. All the wealth created for South Africa was done by the Dutch, British, Indians and Jews. They threw all overboard by voting in ANC for life. South Africa used to be the richest country in Africa unfortunately they had also “apartheid”. Basically the most famous or notorious Dutch word. Today there is apartheid in reverse and many South Africans headed for Western Europe. The Africans cannot even manage a garden with some potatoes. Rhodesia, sorry Zimbawe, is a good example. What a jokers.

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