Opinion
"Solidarity Is Not An Exclusive Club: Both Palestine and Africa Deserve Attention
Africa does not need less solidarity with Palestine. It needs the same solidarity extended to Sudan, Congo, Mozambique and every other people facing violence, displacement and abandonment.
Having read the article by Kenneth Kgwadi (Sunday Times, May 31, 2026) titled “Focus on Africa instead of Palestine”, surely the expectation by readers not to be kept in the dark about the writer’s pro-Israel bias is a reasonable one?
If his ties to the anti-Palestinian camp, as well as his advocacy for the Zionist regime, are brought to the surface, which the publication failed to do, readers will happily be able to take what he says with a pinch of salt.
Context is a crucial factor for media platforms to incorporate into sensational op-eds of the Kgwadi type, to ensure that consumers are not misled.
Nevertheless, his argument is an overused one by Israel’s lobbyists in South Africa, for it seeks to bolster the false notion that solidarity with Palestine is a distraction from African crises."
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– Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of the South Africa-based Media Review Network.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/solidarity-is-not-an-exclusive-club-both-palestine-and-africa-deserve-attention/
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