Students place head in kosher section of Cape Town supermarket which stocks Israeli products.
South Africa’s Jewish community is up in arms after anti-Israel students placed a pig’s head in the kosher food section of a Cape Town supermarket on Friday, according to local media.
The incident, at on outlet of the national Woolworths chain, was intended as a protest against Woolworths for stocking Israeli products, according to the Congress of South African Students (Cosas), which organized the protest.
Cosas “will not allow people who will not eat pork to pretend that they are eating clean meat, when it is sold by hands dripping with the blood of Palestinian children,” COSAS Western Cape chairperson Siphakamise Ngxowa declared in a statement.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the representative body of South African Jewry, described the action as “disregarding all standards of basic decency.”
“We have seen ‘Shoot the Jew’ being chanted at public gatherings and explicit threats made to carry out revenge attacks against the Jewish community for events taking place in Israel and Palestine,” the board said in a statement. “Now we have been presented with yet another case of anti-Israel activism crossing over into blatant anti-Semitism.”
Woolworths said it was appalled by the action. “Placing a pig’s head in our store is unacceptable and offensive to our employees and customers, including Jewish and Muslim employees and customers,” Paula Disberry, Woolworths group director of retail operations said in a statement.
“We are investigating this incident and we will consider our options to prevent such distasteful protests in our stores.”
Even the local branch of BDS (the international boycott movement), which has been boycotting Woolworths since the summer war in Gaza due to its stocking of Israeli products, condemned the Cosas action.
In a statement released Friday, BDS South Africa said it had not “supported, endorsed or encouraged” the action, which it described as “very controversial … form of militant human rights action” that “may not have been properly thought through.”
“We do not believe that taking pigs heads to Woolworths is correct; we also do not believe that Woolworths supporting Israeli Apartheid is correct. We will try our best to discourage both,” it said.
BDS South Africa said it hoped the incident would not be used as a distraction from its #BoycottWoolworths campaign.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has held more than 40 protests at Woolworths stores throughout the country in recent weeks. Earlier this month, the retailer said it may take the BDS lobby to court for threatening its staff and customers.
HaAretz
Well, as we should all be aware; “anti-semitism”, is needed and appreciated and accepted gladly, by the Jews, Jews would not exist in others’ countries were it not for so-called anti-semitism or even actual Jew-hatred. They have formed the minds of the left (as Gilad Atzmon calls them) or the politically-correct in order to shame anyone who has the nerve to point out what the Jews do that is wrong.
As the article states; (all of this) meat drips with the blood of Palestinian children *and their mothers.* If we want to do something to stop what’s been going on in Palestine, hitting the, “israelis”, in the pocketbook is probably the best and fastest way. What else will change their behaviour(s) and attitude? South Africa should know a bit about how to fix this as long as their majority (and elite) are not bought out..
We need to explain to Americans that political-correctness should not apply to jews, alone, or even at all.. For to actually be politically correct would be to call out israel for the horrors they commit against Palestine and much of the world. And in doing this, we need to remind the whole world that it is not, “anti-Semitic”. Pointing out anyone’s racism and fighting against it is not anti-anything except for anti-hate.
Another case of They can dish it out but take take it.
Wouldn’t it a bitch if the “perennial victims” had all their Neo – Judas Goim politicians in London/D.C./Paris et al executed or imprisoned for treason by each betrayed Christian/Muslim nation’s people? How many days, nay hours would that nasty little nation remain? Arrogant, self aggrandizing parasites….. for thousands of years.
Interesting; I’ve long held the view that all airliners should carry a pig on board. Think about it; 9:11 would never have happened. Why? Because a Muslim who dies with pig’s blood on him does not go to heaven and does not get his allocation of 144 black-eyed virgins
That’s not what Muslims believe. At least not any that I know of. A pig doesn’t have any special powers.
Glad you brought up the 72 virgins, a masterfully brilliant and imbecilic lie. Anyone who puts the number 72 into a search engine will clearly find that it is a KABBALISTIC number. And any Muslim wouldn’t be caught dead believing such jewish sorcery. Yes Virginia, the jews are master practitioners of black magic. It comes naturally to the offspring of lucifer.
Where does Helen come from? San Fernando valley, Jew porn capital of the world? Chicago? Another Jewish mafia capital. Maybe its Jew financing fractional reserve, invent money out of thin air magical Manhattan or Wall Street where she gets her mail. But, then again, she might be from the diamond flats, in South Africa or Jewish destroyed Europe. OR MAYBE EVEN NOWHERE JEW.S.A. And for her reference to the pig, surely she knows they put the taxable kosher seal on that one. PUSH THE CORN DOGS AND MISSILES RUEBEN. SELL THEM BOTH!!!
@helen. Israël did 911.
Helen, you are a very vicious and lying imbecile. It was your tribe that did 911. Everybody knows that. Islam is being framed for all the atrocities and slalughter that your tribe have been committing and are still at it.
Muslims see pigs as innocent harmless creatures.
GET OFF THE TUT. YOU ARE NOT WANTED HERE.
Woolworths said it was appalled by the action. “Placing a pig’s head in our store is unacceptable and offensive to our employees and customers, including Jewish and Muslim employees and customers,” Paula Disberry, Woolworths group director of retail operations said in a statement.
LOL! Does anybody believe Woolworths were concerned over the Muslim Employees in this matter?
Helen. Israel did 9/11 with the complicity of the US government who is controlled by the Jewish cabal, the Zionists Jews and their brothers the imperialists have done all the false flags including Pearl Harbor, they murdered the two Kennedys, they made us gone to Viet Nam for the benefit of the Military Industrial Complex and the Banks, the Jews killed more than 3000 Americans on 9/11 in order to drag the US into a series of wars in Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa for the sole benefit of the Pariah entity Israel while Israel massacre thousands of Palestinians on a regular basis with the help of its stooges in Washington.