Zionism is “a version of global racist domination” says the head of South Africa’s national trade union centre, COSATU.
From the address by COSATU President, Sidumo Dlamini, to the International Strategy workshop towards the International Solidarity Conference of COSATU, 26th March, 2009: “Democracy for us means that our people should fully exercise control over their natural resources, their decision-making and their future. It does not mean more privatisation, more market destruction, more IMF-World Bank economic looting and more reversal of people’s power and the strengthening of the state’s security apparatus against popular struggles. Their foreign policy objectives are centred on … Protecting Israel at all costs and projecting the legitimate struggles of the Palestinian people as terrorism, which is part of their racist agenda to project Israel as a ‘civilised democratic’ state, and the Palestinians as blood-thirsty savages, yet hide the reality that Israel is the occupying force that has, through force, imposed itself upon the Palestinian people, murdering children and women and annexing more lands in the nme of security. They support Zionism, a version of global racist domination and apartheid based on the doctrine that Jews are superior to Arabs and therefore have a right to oppress them and occupy their country.”