The Judaic roots of Apartheid and Racism in South Africa

[Menydh]

[This is a follow-up comment to the news article Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria]

I've lost count of how many times I've argued the close links between Apartheid, Judaism and Zionism.

In order to understand the depth of these links, it is necessary to look backwards at the arrival of Jan van Riebeck to the Cape of Good Hope and to the subsequent history of the settlement of Dutch boers (farmers) in South Africa.

This was a venture by the Dutch East Indies Company, that was largely owned by Jewish shareholders. It is the same story with the Dutch West Indies Company and America. One needs only to recall the demand of the Company that Peter Stuyvesant accepted the Jewish settlers in the Dutch colony. That was the first plantation and the seed of Judaism in America.

Not that the Dutch settlers in the West and the East Indies were much different. The apology of these Dutch on the grounds of them being "Germanic" or "European" is meaningless. It is not about the physical, but it is their spirit that is corrupted and "un-European".

It needs to be reminded here the reasons why these accusations of having a corrupted soul are made: neo-Judaism, also known as Calvinism. Racial phisical supremacism (aka Racialism) has its roots in the ideas of predestinationism and chosenitism of Judaism via Calvinism.

Back to South Africa, these Dutch settlers were later joined by a new wave of Calvinists, the Huguenots. Many of them descended from Marranos. Again, the same as in America. Anglo-Saxon racial supremacism, also a component in these colonies, is also a consequence of Calvinism, Puritanism in their case.

Amsterdam born Hendrik Verwoerd, known as the Architect of Apartheid, was the son of a Dutch dominee (minister) of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church, émigré in South Africa. As such, he built the foundations of the Apartheid on these same ideas. Apartheid was build upon the biblical premises of a people chosen by God and predestined by Him to own those lands. Does it ring a bell?

Anyway, the Apartheid never meant to separate races into nation, but to keep Blacks in a form of new slavery labour. The bantustans (later renamed with the more politically correct homelands), which were told to be the seed for future independent Black countries, were designed with the idea that they would not have a viability as indepent states, but dependable on White South Africa. They provided an unskilled but cheap labour force which was officially "foreign" (though their independence was only recognized among themselves and South Africa), in a "Gastarbeiter" fashion.

It doesn't take a geographer and an economist to understand this. All it takes is a look at the map of the Bantustans..



Am I the only one to see striking similar patterns between these two maps ..?



South Africa was ruled by the interests of Jewish magnates, like Harry F Oppenheimer, the owner of the diamond company De Beers and one of the richest men in the world, or Solomon Kerzner, the hotel and gambling magnate.

With all of this in the background, the relations of Apartheid's South Africa with Israel are not something that should surprise anyone. During the embargo years, only Israel maintained official relations with South Africa, very close relations, and Britain unnofficially. Despite South Africa having abandoned the British Commonwealth and therefore its links with London weakened, it was Britain that opposed the attempts by Commonwealth countries to impose broader sanctions against South Africa and, individually outside of the British Commonwealth, it kept supporting South Africa in various ways.

Israel not only opposed the UN sanctions (which it always opposes as it is something that they fear that could be used against themselves), but it broke the arms embargo by keeping a close military co-operation both in trade and investment. Israel also acted as a middleman for countries wishing to send exports to South Africa.