Johannesburg - The South African Jewish community has placed billboards along a major highway in Johannesburg quoting Nelson Mandela as a means of countering the BDS movement.
The billboards, which cite the founding father of post-Apartheid South Africa as supporting Zionism as legitimate Jewish nationalism, among other things, are intended to counter “efforts by the BDS campaign and anti-Israel lobby in SA to hijack the legacy of Nelson Mandela in showing his support of the Palestinian agenda as a one-sided affair,” Ben Swartz, one of the campaign’s organizers explained.
The BDS movement recently announced that it was bringing former PFLP airline hijacker Leila Khaled on a speaking tour throughout the country.
