{"id":241927,"date":"2023-10-24T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=241927"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T06:55:15","slug":"opposition-leader-malema-calls-for-boycott-of-israeli-goods-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=241927","title":{"rendered":"Opposition leader Malema calls for boycott of Israeli goods in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/251\/25173581.jpg\" alt=\"Julius Malema has often expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Julius Malema has often expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">PRETORIA, Oct 24 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; South Africa\u2019s third biggest political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has held a protest outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, Pretoria.<br><br>Party leader, Julius Malema once again called for the closure of the embassy after saying Israel&#8217;s government had \u201cno respect for humanity&#8221;.<br><br>Malema also urged retailers in the country to remove Israeli-produced goods from their shelves by the end of October.<br><br>&#8220;If they don&#8217;t remove products from Israel, we&#8217;ll remove them ourselves. We don&#8217;t want Israeli products sold in South Africa, we don&#8217;t want food from people who have the blood of innocent people on their hands,&#8221; said Malema.<br><br>The governing African National Congress (ANC) held a similar picket outside Israel&#8217;s embassy on Friday.<br><br>ANC Deputy Secretary General Nomvula Mokonyane called on South Africans to boycott imports from Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.<br><br>She also reiterated South Africa&#8217;s calls for an immediate ceasefire to hostilities in the Middle East.<br><br>Last week, a spokeswoman for the ANC Women\u2019s League resigned, accusing the party of failing to see the &#8220;Jewish side of the story&#8221; in the Israel-Palestine conflict. &#8212; NNN-GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Malema has often expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people PRETORIA, Oct 24 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; South Africa\u2019s third biggest political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has held a protest outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, Pretoria. Party leader, Julius Malema once again called for the closure of the embassy after saying Israel&#8217;s government had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241927"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241929,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241927\/revisions\/241929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/241928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}