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It won’t affect Israel, relations with Israel were being severed. She meaningful and constructive role in peace Africa and South African Jewry. Israel is which offers the world very much more than also categorically stated that the downgrade negotiations in the troubled Middle East helping to uplift the lives of South Africans we do. It may bolster the ANC’s credentials of the South African Embassy in Israel was region. daily with major projects in the fields of for a while with itself, BDS [the Boycott already in progress. Krengel said the announcements came as water, technology, and security.” Divestment Sanctions movement] and “This is the single biggest issue to affect a surprise last week because, “Our view was Sisulu, meanwhile, has received wide- Hamas, but it will have absolutely no role to South African Jewry in modern times,” Zev always that a certain level of common sense ranging support for her announcement from play in resolving the conflict. Krengel, the vice-president of the South would prevail. You can’t play a diplomatic traditionally anti-Israel organisations such “If the ANC really wanted to do African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), role in peace negotiations if you have no as the ANC, the Congress of South Africa something, it would push the Palestinians to told the SA Jewish Report this week. diplomatic relations.” Trade Unions, the South African Communist get to the negotiating table soonest. If it did, Asked why an embassy downgrade in Israel He said more and more countries were Party, and other pro-Palestinian lobby it would discover that the Palestinians are and possibly in South Africa was such a big establishing strong diplomatic and other ties groups. very unlikely to heed its calls.” issue for the community, Krengel responded with Israel, not only in Africa but even in Sara Gon of the Institute of Race Relations In an article she penned in The Daily by saying it was emotional. the Middle East itself, and within the BRICS (IRR) told the SA Jewish Report, “We can Friend, the online news platform of the “We’ve had an Israeli representative in (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) be sure that the ANC and some opposition IRR, Gon said, “The position seems to be South Africa and Israel since 1950. It is a association. parties want to be seen to punish Israel.” Continued on page 8>> little piece of Israel sitting in our country. “I think what hurts We are a proud Zionist community, we love the most is that Israel South Africa, we love Israel, and it gives us is the only country a biblical link to our Jewish state. It will being singled out.” be a devastating blow if Israel recalls its Said Krengel, “If ambassador. We live at a time where there is the downgrade of a Jewish state, so to live without diplomatic the South African relations is like going to shul and not having Embassy in Israel a Torah in the ark.” goes ahead, which The SA Jewish Report revealed last week the minister says it that in her address to foreign dignitaries will, it’s the single and media at the South African Institute of worst government International Affairs, Sisulu responded to a legislation to affect question by saying, “We are putting together our community in a programme of downgrading our relations recent history.” with Israel in line with the resolutions that Over the past were taken by the ANC [African National week, the SAJBD Congress].” has been tirelessly However, she skipped over her prepared meeting with role statement on this issue which went further, players at the highest saying that “stage one [of the downgrade] level in a frantic bid has been completed”. to sway impending The written speech went on, “Our downgrade decisions. ambassador is back in South Africa, and we It has reached out will not be replacing him. Our liaison office to the Presidency, Public Enterprises Minister in Tel Aviv will have no political mandate, the Department Pravin Gordhan has a no trade mandate, and no development co- of International moment with Israeli operation mandate. It will not be responsible Relations and Ambassador Lior Keinan for trade and commercial activities. 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The policy change came in a court settlement on Monday nationalist between the vacation rental company and a dozen American Jewish Right-wing critics railed against Representative Ilhan Omar for calling plaintiffs who had sued the company, organised by the Shurat White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller a “white nationalist” Hadin-Israel Law Center, a pro-Israel law organisation. amid a string of tweets decrying the Trump administration’s hard-line Airbnb announced in November that it would remove about 200 immigration reform policies. rental listings in West Bank settlements The detractors accused the Minnesota Democrat of targeting Jews - a because it contended that the settlements claim she has heard several times since joining congress in January. “are at the core of the dispute between Omar targeted Miller, who is Jewish, just days after President Donald Israelis and Palestinians”. 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