‘Not a friend of Israel, but a man of great achievement‘ – Desmond Tutu saw the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the prism of apartheid in South Africa, says ex-envoy | JPost

When then-US president Donald Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel in 2017, South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu responded: “God is weeping over President Donald Trump’s inflammatory and discriminatory recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It is our responsibility to tell Mr. Trump that he is wrong.”