Africa is a Country

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Ha’aretz writes about the impressions of a high-level group of South Africans after their visit to the Occupied Territories — among them newspaper editors, political activists, two judges (including Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Edwin Cameron), a former government minister in Thabo Mbeki’s government (that’s her, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, in the picture above) and a former African National Congress Member of Parliament, Andrew Feinstein (whose mother was a Holocaust survivor):

I thought they would feel right at home in the alleys of Balata refugee camp, the Casbah and the Hawara checkpoint. But they said there is no comparison: for them the Israeli occupation regime is worse than anything they knew under apartheid. This week, 21 human rights activists from South Africa visited Israel.

[Interestingly, the visit was widely covered in the Israeli and, notably, the British press (for example The Independent), but not the US press].

Here.