Defending Tutu

The man has a Halo round his head

Sometimes a man (ladies included) feels so strongly about something that he has to take a stand. It's a trait that not many of us will ever get to see tested. For what would you fall upon your sword? In an age where we're spoon fed, there isn't much we have to truly fight for. That's why you have to respect the old apartheid activists. It was either go one of three ways. Keep quiet and let the atrocities continue. Join the oppressor, turn against your own in order, to secure yourself a good life. Or fight the establishment and risk all to get your point across. It's easy now to say what you would have done the right thing, but in the midst of it all, many things would cloud and influence your judgement.

One of the stalwarts of the anti apartheid movement Desmond Tutu,  has recently come under fire for this views on Israel. Tutu has condemned Israel in the past,  for their blockage of Gaza. Last year he urged the Cape Town Opera to cancel an Israeli trip as Palestinians would not have equal access to the performance, drawing parallels with the international boycott during apartheid South Africa.



Nothing out of the ordinary there, a man who's spent the better part of his life fighting for equality, doing the same for a region with lots of conflict. Well this has sparked a petition against him.

An online petition has accused the revered anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu of "demonizing Israel" with its organizers demanding he be axed as the patron of local holocaust centers.

The petition, by three Cape Town locals and which has drawn nearly 350 supporters, accuses the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of being a bigot, dishonest and a "defamer of Israel and the Jewish people".

"Over the years, Archbishop Tutu has been guilty of numerous anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements," states the campaign.

It demands that Tutu resign or be sacked as patron of the Cape Town holocaust centre and the Johannesburg holocaust and genocide centre.

The petition, which was launched last month and lists several of Tutu's outspoken comments, rejects his "false, bigoted and politically motivated accusation" that Israel was an apartheid state.

It also calls his support for Israeli sanctions "morally repugnant because it is based on horrific and grotesquely false accusations against the Jewish people".

The anti-Tutu effort has sparked a counter-petition which had more than 1,500 signatures online.
I got nothing more to say on this one, theseCapetonians are out of their minds.

I mean how can you hate this guy?

usual smut to resume in 5 4 3 2...

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