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our editorial Tickets Sold 1240 GURit The book starts in 1963 with Naidoo being caught planting explosives. Like many young militants of his generation Naidoo had joined the newly formed armed wing of the ANC. Called Umkhonto We Sizwe this armed wing was formed in 1961 following eaceful protesters Sharpville the DACV UUN year. Having exhausted all Zionism If Sophie Nichol (Letters, 7 Nov) is interested in a 'serious discussion' then it would be helpful not to attribute to me views which I do not hold. Nowhere did I imply that Zionism was 'responsible Ior le Nazi noiocausl. Czarist Russia.' It is. nowever indisputable that Zionism was a legal movement in for which it concentrated its energies attacking the Jewish revolutionaries which is whw the Bund. the major party of Jewish Wolkes, ,banned Zionists from their unions.
Although the Nazis were solely responsible for the Holocaust, it is also true that the Zionist movement collaborated in somerning co a possible avenues peaceful change the ANC concluded that apartheid could only be overthrown by armed struggle.
The regime's response was a vicious crackdown They infiltrated the organisation with provocateurs Naidoo's arrest was of the results. Brutally beaten tortured Naidoo refused to give the security forces any information. He was tried and sentenc a number of different ways (this was the finding of the Jerusalem District Court in the Kastner case 1953-6 and that in Western Europe the Zionists actively opposed lowering the immigration barriers, thus reinforcing the racist practices of the imperialist governments here and in the USA. It must have led to the deaths of many thousands of Jews who would otherwise have survived. Zionism was a quisling movement. a smal. minority of European SeWAs David Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister wrote in a letter to the Zionist Executive (17.12.38): 'If the Jews are faced with a choice between the retuger problem and rescuing JCWS LUlI concentration camps on the one hand and aid for the national museum on the other, the Jewish sense of pity will Devan, wede msnr Zionism's very existPerhaps it's tha avou sight of trying to pass themselves off as normal human beinas... Island prison where the story really begıns The prisoners are sub jected to persistent and unprovoked violence by. the white warders. Kept half starved and frozen in filthy conditions the prisoners ICIUNC be broken and fight back in every way possible. The picture emerges of struggle against almost impossible odds. readable. Most chapters are very short — a couple of pages or so — and each tells a self-contained story.
read about the despicable role that the ence if we allow the refugee problem to be separated from the Palestine problem.' (Arie Bober, The Other Israel, Matzpen).
Likewise the Zionist campaign on Soviet Jewry has nothing to do with liberation and everything to do with providing more settlers in Israel. The Zionist organisation Jews from settling anywhere but Israel. It has been part of a cold war campaign in the USA. If it was simply a humanitarian campaign, whv was there no simuar campaign regarding Argentinian Jews, some 2-3000 of whom died at the hands of the fascist Junta? Did it have anything to do with Israel's relations with the Junta?
US DONC a Jewish socialist today c c vc vc . support to Zionism and the Israeli state.
Tories , the Nambia' greetings.
Oris it Nigel represents only a fraction though of the totalnumber of men and women incarcerated under apartheid laws especially with the current numbers of people in detention under the State of Emergency in South Africa.
We know from letters we receive back from South Africa and Namibia that such greetings are very much appreciated; we do hope that you will find space for the enclosed letter or some other notice of the availability of the list.
The last posting date to Southern Africa is 5th December.
Thank you very
much, Abdul Minty Honorary Secretary, Anti-Apartheid Novene.
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