Simon Deng, a native of the Shiluk Kingdom in southern Sudan, is an escaped jihad slave and a leading human rights activist. Simon Deng has this piece in the Jewish Advocate."Disappearance of Bishop Tutu
Late last month, I went to hear Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at Boston’s Old South Church at a conference on "Israel Apartheid." Tutu is a well respected man of God. He brought reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa. That he would lead a conference that damns the Jewish state is very disturbing to me.
The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families – even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. I know Arabs go to Israeli schools, and get the best medical care in the world. I know they vote and have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu’s South Africa. …
Bishop Tutu, I see black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud. …
Yes, the Palestinians are inconvenienced at checkpoints. But why, Bishop Tutu, do you care more about that inconvenience than about Jewish lives?
Bishop, when you used to dance for Mandela’s freedom, we Africans – all over Africa – joined in. Our support was key in your freedom. But when children in Burundi and Kinshasa, all the way to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in particular in Sudan, cried and called for rescue, you heard but chose to be silent.
Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans – I was part of the movement to stop slavery in Mauritania, which just now abolished the practice. But you were not with us, Bishop Tutu.
So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?"
5 comments:
I'm an Israeli jew, and I will not add a word, because I think what you wrote this 100% correct.
Amen. During Apartheid, black people couldn't vote, study at the universities, live where they chose, have a passport. They lived in absolute squalor, debased and despised, hurdled across the country like cattle to toil in the mines, unable to see their families for months and years. In Israel the hospitals are full of Arab doctors, lawyers, policemen. The constant comparisons is simply aimed at smearing the Jewish state, and at the same time serving to run out the memory of what Apartheid was really about.
As an American Jew I want to ask Desmond Tutu "where are you" when churches are burned in Egypt. "where are you" when churches are burned in Indonesia? "where are you" when Jewish babies are shot in the head by Arab snipers? "where are you" when millions of Jews from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran and other Muslim states are kicked out of their homes and their business' confiscated.. Where are you Mr. TUTU??
shimon deng, you are a hero and a blessing to sudan and israel. G-d bless you!!! bishlep tutu, you are drek for your hypocrisy. look it up.
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