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In 2007, Minister Ronnie Kasrils, the highest-ranking Jew in South Africa’s post-apartheid government, launched a campaign against Israeli policy in the occupied territories. In so doing, he ignited a public debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that challenged the identity of South African Jews in the new South Africa. Kasrils offered Jews a choice–oppose Israel and Zionism, and be welcomed into the post-apartheid order, or else remain stuck in the apartheid past, on the fringes of South Africa’s changing society, ostracised by the African National Congress (ANC) government. Kasrils’ ‘declaration of conscience’ marked the first time in recent world history that a prominent Jewish politician outside Israel had attacked the Israeli government and its policies so vehemently—and done so, publicly and self-consciously, as a Jew. Though Kasrils failed to win Jewish support, he succeeded in pulling the community into the orbit of the ANC. "The Kasrils Affair: Jews and Minority Politics in the New South Africa" is a contemporary analysis, based largely on published commentary and interviews conducted with the members and staff of the Jewish Board of Deputies. The book also draws h

Who reads The Kasrils Affair : Jews and Minority Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa?

Author

Joel B. Pollak

Publisher

UCT Press; Double Storey Publishers; Brand: University of Cape Town Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781920499433

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, History