EFF leader Julius Malema used an address at a weekend funeral to express “full solidarity” with Iran, and to voice the hope that “Israel [should] finally have a taste of the devastation and violence it has perpetrated in Gaza”.
News24 quotes Malema as saying: “We stand in full solidarity with Iran, a country under siege from Western imperialism for choosing independence. We reject the bullying of this nation by the United States, Israel, and its allies, and we stand by their right to defend themselves by any means necessary.”
He was speaking at the funeral service of seven of the 10 EFF supporters who died in a bus accident in KwaZulu-Natal.
He said: “We are anti-imperialists because we understand that our struggle for freedom is bound to the struggle of all oppressed people across the world.”
In the context of his drawing an analogy between the plight of children in Gaza with suffering children in South Africa, the EFF leader is quoted as saying: “The screams of mothers in Gaza echo the cries we hear here. We say to the Israeli apartheid regime, the world is watching, and history will judge you harshly.”
[Image: By Hussein Jaber – UNRWA: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=162153208]