Head of BDS South Africa during Visit to Berlin: Apartheid „Sunday School Picnic“ Compared to Israeli Occupation | MEMRI

Farid Esack, head of BDS South Africa, said that „life in apartheid South Africa was infinitely better than life under the [Israeli] occupation, or life for Arabs inside ‚Israel proper‘,“ and that „apartheid was a Sunday school picnic in comparison to life under Zionism.“ Esack, who is a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Johannesburg, made these statements during a lecture given in Berlin, which was posted on YouTube on December 30, 2016. Farid Esack: „In some ways, the anti-…