Time to call this man on his bigotry: Desmond Tutu says Israel’s claim to be a “civilised democracy” is “fallacious”

Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
27 October '10

Desmond Tutu may have retired earlier this month as an Anglican Archbishop, but he has not given up on his obsession with demonising the Jewish state. Yesterday he was at it again with an appeal to the Cape Town Opera to cancel a planned trip next month to Israel and thus join the international boycott movement.

He said the decision to go would advance “Israel’s fallacious claim to being a ‘civilized democracy.’” He added that, like apartheid South Africa, Israel was “a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity.”

Ok. Enough is enough from this man. He’s got away with extreme bigotry against the Jewish state for one reason and one reason alone: because he was a brave and principled opponent of South Africa’s inhuman system of apartheid. But this is ludicrous and it’s time he was called on it.

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