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South African activist changes after not finding ‘Black Only’ restrooms in Israel
J-Wire ^ | February 22, 2023 | Tazpit Press Service—David Karsh

Posted on 02/24/2023 11:44:07 AM PST by Olog-hai

Desperate to find a restroom after a nearly nine-hour flight from Johannesburg, South African university student Klaas Mokgomole grabbed his carry-on and hurried off the plane.

Urgently searching out a gate agent at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport and praying that the man understood English, Mokgomole asked sincerely, “Can you please show me to the blacks-only restroom?”

The agent’s eyes widened in disbelief. He told Mokgomole in no uncertain terms that he never heard of such a thing and pointed him to a nearby bathroom.

That’s when it was Mokgomole’s turn to be confused.

Mokgomole — then a South African university student and outspoken youth leader of the anti-Israel, Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement — stood in the busy airport restroom dumbfounded as Jews and Arabs went in and out. They would have been oblivious to the transformation taking place as they stepped around him on that day in July 2015.

Recalling that seminal moment, Mokgomole explained to the Tazpit Press Service during a recent visit to Jerusalem, “I was taught very emphatically racism in Israel runs so deep that the Jews do not even share their toilets with blacks or Arabs. To see within the first few moments after landing in Israel that this clearly is not the case marked a turning point for me.”

His curiosity sparked, Mokgomole began what would become a transformational journey from virulent anti-Israel activist to passionate peacemaker and bridge-builder between Israel and the rest of the world. …

(Excerpt) Read more at jwire.com.au ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: 1619project; bds; bdswatika; blackkk; blackliesmanors; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; criticalracetheory; crt; israel; jerusalem; klaasmokgomole; letshavejerusalem; southafrica
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1 posted on 02/24/2023 11:44:07 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

So in other words he was taught a bunch of lies.


2 posted on 02/24/2023 11:45:54 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

Due to CRT IN OUR SCHOOLS, SOON WE WILL HAVE BLACK ONLY WASHROOMS AS WELL AS TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS.

Black CRT politicians are going to remove white privilege of using the same bathrooms as superior black people.

White sh*t is going to pile up in the streets , proving that whites are an inferior race.


3 posted on 02/24/2023 11:48:39 AM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: Olog-hai

A message of hope and courage.


4 posted on 02/24/2023 11:49:25 AM PST by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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To: Olog-hai

Such a great education. It’s a global problem


5 posted on 02/24/2023 11:49:41 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Steely Tom

Precisely. And quite pernicious lies.

The left in South Africa wants the specter of apartheid to be everywhere, haunting its black population.


6 posted on 02/24/2023 11:50:13 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Education through travel and first hand experience with other cultures is a great foundation for peace.


7 posted on 02/24/2023 11:53:29 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Olog-hai

I’ll take “Things That Didn’t Happen” for $1000, Alex.


8 posted on 02/24/2023 11:54:01 AM PST by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: Olog-hai
In other words, he was completely ignorant of everything about Israel but didn't let that ignorance stop him from being a virulent anti-sematic anti-Israel activist.

That sounds like pretty much every leftist in America, just substitute whatever pet cause they're pimping on any given day.

9 posted on 02/24/2023 11:54:51 AM PST by GaryCrow
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To: Steely Tom

The ANC, and Nelson Mandela himself, are Marxists.

Marxist’s path to power is to create narratives of oppression and tell the oppressed that they can get justice if only they help push the Marxists into power.
Sometimes these narratives of oppression are based on real facts, but the for Marxists, it’s just a means to power. So when there are no facts to support the narrative, they will make up lies.


10 posted on 02/24/2023 12:00:30 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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Can you please show me to the blacks-only restroom?

Ifhe visits the US he'll be surprised to find he can use the bathroom of his gender of the day

11 posted on 02/24/2023 12:00:45 PM PST by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: GaryCrow
“We must hate. Hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.”

— Lenin
It sure is a worldwide problem, one that has infected every corner of the planet.
“What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time.”
That last quote is from Marx himself. No doubt as to where the antisemitism on the left originates.
12 posted on 02/24/2023 12:07:44 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Candor7

Interesting take away from such a positive article.


13 posted on 02/24/2023 12:08:25 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Steely Tom

Many colleges and universities have “Reset” back to segregation with Black commencements, Black student unions, Black housing, Black classes, Black radio stations and Black newspapers. And it’s supposedly by choice and not by programing/grooming


14 posted on 02/24/2023 12:09:57 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Steely Tom
So in other words he was taught a bunch of lies.

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear
You've got to be taught
From year to Year
It's got to be drummed
in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught
To be Afraid
Of people whose eyes
are oddly made
And people whose skin
Is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are 6 or 7 or 8
To hate all the people
your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught

- - Oscar Hammerstein

15 posted on 02/24/2023 12:21:33 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: Candor7

“Black CRT politicians are going to remove white privilege of using the same bathrooms as superior black people.”

And the white restrooms will probably end up being tidy and nice places, and the black restrooms will get trashed and nobody will want to go in them, even if they had the best fixtures, etc.


16 posted on 02/24/2023 12:42:53 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Olog-hai

Outrage is the way of youth

It is easy to convince the young that injustice is being done.

Many will refuse to believe the truth even when they see the truth with their own eyes.


17 posted on 02/24/2023 12:49:31 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Yes, good connection.

That show, South Pacific, premiered on Broadway in 1949.

I've always thought it was at or near the beginning of a mighty push within society to do away with racial boundaries that had existed for hundreds of years.

It's like the people who control American culture decided that — now that WWII was won — the "color line" must be done away with completely.

Many other landmark cultural events and productions had this as their goal, to one extent or another. Some were subtle, some were in your face. Of course, the "in your face" got more in your face as time went on.

The King and I, Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, and many other Broadway shows had anti-racism as a subtext. Television was emerging, and anti-racist messaging was a constant presence. I witnessed this first hand as a child growing up in the late '50s and through the '60s. I couldn't experience Broadway except through cast albums, and playing music from Broadway in band practice.

It's interesting how the elites decided as one monolith that the time had come to change the direction of society. Perhaps it was the existence of atomic weapons that motivated them. Perhaps it was the experience of fighting Hitler, and of seeing the results of industrial ethic genocide in Europe. Of course, ethnic genocide happened with Japan, in China, but I think that was less obvious here in America, because Mao's communist revolution closed China off from the rest of the world. The ghastly crimes of Japan against the Chinese population came out much more slowly.

Everyone knew how the Japanese treated their American prisoners though, and that pretty quickly.

18 posted on 02/24/2023 12:59:24 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I see that Porgy and Bess came out in 1935, and so well predated the other Rodgers and Hammerstein shows by more than ten years. I didn't realize that.

So the push began well before the outbreak of WWII.

19 posted on 02/24/2023 1:02:03 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

The problem with most liberals is they believe things that are simply not true.


20 posted on 02/24/2023 1:25:17 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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