those who remain silent in the face of oppression

#Those who remain silent in the face of oppression free#

The parallels to my own beloved South Africa are painfully stark indeed.”Īrchbishop Tutu was honored years ago with the title “International Patron of Sabeel” - his Christian-brotherhood association with the Palestinian Christian organization Sabeel Ecumenical Christian Liberation Center, established in 1989.

(2014) “I know first-hand that Israel has created an apartheid reality within its borders and through its occupation. (2014) “(Palestinians’) humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.” We are opposed to violence perpetrated by all parties. We are opposed to the indignity meted out to Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks. We are opposed to the indiscriminate killing in Gaza. (2014) “We are opposed to the injustice of the illegal occupation of Palestine.

#Those who remain silent in the face of oppression free#

(2014) “Nelson Mandela famously said that South Africans would not feel free until Palestinians were free. He might have added that the liberation of Palestine will liberate Israel, too.” Here are others apropos the Palestinians’ torment: The above quotation is one example of Archbishop Tutu’s distaste for apartheid. The evidence is abundant and irrefutable: Palestine is the current-era victim of apartheid - an epic tragedy very recently (mid-2021) confirmed by both Human Rights Watch and B’tSelem. But there is no doubt that his thoughts, words, and actions will continue to be powerful and compelling forces for good for those who care and dream about a kinder, gentler, more just world - most principally, a free Palestine: “From the River to the Sea” - and Palestinian Muslims’ and Christians’ right to return to their own homeland from many points of diaspora. These years of the raging COVID pandemic continue and spill over to 2022–and have brought to an end the physical presence of one of humanity’s finest - the anti-apartheid human-rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. “I have never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.” ~Desmond Tutu, 2007Īlong with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nelson Mandela ‘Madiba,’ and Martin Luther King, Jr., the world has lost one of the greatest souls of the last two centuries or any prior - the last of the rare iconic figures who truly, genuinely cared for and spoke up with courage and conviction for the oppressed, the downtrodden, the marginalized, the humiliated, and any and all abused humankind.

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