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South Africa’s highest ranking judge refuses tsAo apologise for
upporting Israel
s the Chief Justice of South Africa, Mogoeng Mogoeng is the most senior judge of the Constitutional Court and head
of the judiciary of South Africa. He
is also a lay preacher who submits to an authority higher than any judicial system on earth. Despite being under immense pressure to apologise for his pro-Israel statements, Mogoeng says he would rather lose his position than dishonour God.
also one of the few countries that hosts a Palestinian embassy.
Anti-Israel groups complained
to South Africa’s Judicial Conduct Commission (JCC) and demanded that Mogoeng apologises. Shockingly, the commission has seemingly neglected its judicial responsibilities in favour
of serving a political agenda. Despite judges in South Africa having freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression, which is protected under law, the committee ordered Mogoeng to apologise and condemned him for his actions.
This all started back in June 2020 when Mogoeng was taking part in a live webinar hosted by the Jerusalem Post. During the online meeting, Mogoeng announced that unlike most of the political and media elite in South Africa he himself was a Christian Zionist who regularly prayed for the peace of Jerusalem.
“I cannot, as a Christian, do anything other than love and pray for Israel because I know hatred for Israel by
me and my nation can only attract unprecedented curses upon our nation,” Mogoeng said in the interview.
This appears to be nothing more than a political attempt to silence and punish those who support Israel, a complete miscarriage of justice.
These honourable words have caused great upset to those in South Africa who hate Israel, especially among the political elite. The country’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is openly anti-Israel and has adopted the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s call to boycott the Jewish state. South Africa is
“Judges, as citizens, have constitutional rights of freedom
of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of thought, and freedom of opinion. It is not correct to say that when you assume office, you’ll