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Farid Esack, head of BDS South Africa, said that "life in apartheid South Africa was infinitely better than life under the [Israeli] occupation, or life for Arabs inside 'Israel proper'," and that "apartheid was a Sunday school picnic in comparison to life under Zionism." Esack, who is a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Johannesburg, made these statements during a lecture given in Berlin, which was posted on YouTube on December 30, 2016.
Farid Esack: "In some ways, the anti-Semitic discourse is also reflected in Zionist discourse. On the one (hand), there is an inherent privilege to our blood, and on the other, there is an inherent negativity to that blood. So whether the Jews are evil, the Jews are - I am talking about the language now - the Jews are evil, evil runs in the Jewish blood, the Jews are commonly deceivers, the Jews are controlling this, the Jews are behind this, the Jews are behind that... Wherever there is something bad happening in the world, there is a Jew behind it."
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"So for the one crowd, it is negativity that runs in the genes and comes with the whole thing, and for the other crowd, it's a privilege - this is now the Zionist crowd. There is a certain privilege that comes with this ethnic identity."
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"In many ways, what is happening here is both a combination of economic interests - and in the case of the United States, particularly the power of the Israeli lobby. So it is economic interests, the Israeli lobby, and in Europe, in a country particularly like Germany, it is the guilt of the past and a very simplistic owning of that guilt."
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"You know, the heavens will fall apart, if you are caught not making the distinction between Israel and Jews. If once you slip, the heavens will fall apart, you will lose your job, you will be kicked out of parliament... What the hell is this?!"
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"Life in apartheid South Africa was infinitely better than life under the occupation, or life for Arabs inside 'Israel proper.' All our struggle heroes who have been there have come back and said: 'No, apartheid was a Sunday school picnic in comparison to life under Zionism.'"
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