{"id":37455,"date":"2023-12-01T17:32:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/how-the-israel-hamas-war-is-stirring-up-western-cape-politics"},"modified":"2023-12-01T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:10:31","slug":"how-the-israel-hamas-war-is-stirring-up-western-cape-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/how-the-israel-hamas-war-is-stirring-up-western-cape-politics","title":{"rendered":"How the Israel-Hamas war is stirring up Western Cape politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>is currently circulating in Cape Town. It targets the DA and the PA on the basis of what are felt to be inadequate stances from the parties towards the current bombing of Gaza by Israel \u2014 and the violence of the sentiment sums up the depth of feeling in fairly significant pockets of Cape Town when it comes to the attitudes of local political parties towards the war in Gaza.
\nThough the conflict is raging more than 8,000km away from the Western Cape, the intensity of the reaction in the province should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n

Here, many people find the position of the Palestinians deeply resonant, in terms of race, in some cases a shared religion, and a shared history of dispossession.<\/p>\n

But outside of protests attended by tens of thousands of Capetonians \u2014 and many feel that the media routinely undercounts the number of protesters \u2014 the political debate around Gaza is increasingly moving away from mainstream media, as outlets find the volume of the discussion and its blowback impossible to manage.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times recently announced in an editorial, for instance, that it would no longer be accepting commentary on the war, on the grounds that it was drowning out domestic issues. National elections are, meanwhile, just six months away.<\/p>\n

And though it is highly unusual for South African voters to make international affairs key issues in domestic elections, some feel that this particular topic just might be an exception. Smaller parties aiming to eat DA\u2019s lunch on the matter<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of Capetonians are not necessarily agreeing with the DA\u2019s position on Israel,\u201d believes Rod Solomons, a longtime community activist and the convenor of the SA1st lobby group.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce that voter is in that booth [for the 2024 polls] .
\n. it\u2019s very, very early days to make a definitive pronouncement. But many people are hoping that [the Israel issue] will play a big role [in electoral outcomes]. \u201d<\/p>\n

Solomons is working together with former ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman, suspended from the ANC in 2016 over sexual assault allegations, on a \u201cPeople\u2019s Convention\u201d to be held in December to bring together people \u201cinside civil society formations and outside of active politics\u201d to discuss whether to launch a political entity to contest the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n

Although the ANC in the Western Cape has all but collapsed, there are multiple smaller parties and organisations in the province champing to take a bite out of the DA\u2019s electoral majority next year.<\/p>\n

In the Israel-Hamas war, they may have found a wedge issue. Pro-Palestine feelings run particularly high in Cape Town\u2019s Muslim community, but on the Cape Flats more widely the Palestinian solidarity movement is also strong.<\/p>\n

A Social Research Foundation survey into South African attitudes towards Israel, published in November, found that 60% of surveyed coloured people \u2014 a percentage vastly higher than for any other race group \u2014 \u201cstrongly agreed\u201d with the statement: \u201cThe government of Israel practises Apartheid policies against the people of Palestine.<\/p>\n

\u201d Just 3% of surveyed coloured people \u201cstrongly disagreed\u201d.<\/p>\n

On 28 November, a media platform called Cape Flats Stories \u2014 boasting almost 230,000 followers \u2014 hosted a dialogue on Palestine and Israel in which representatives from a range of local political parties and activist groups were expected to nail their organisations\u2019 colours to the wall when it came to the war. From some, there was no equivocation. \u201cIt\u2019s a genocide,\u201d declared Al Jama-ah\u2019s Shameemah Salie.<\/p>\n

Neil de Beer, a former apartheid operative-turned-Umkhonto-weSizwe- agent-turned-leader of a party called the United Independent Movement, which is a member of the Multi-Party Charter, said that he was drawing on his personal experience of conflict situations in saying that Israel was violating the rules of war.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael must now stop, and withdraw, and reach consensus on international law,\u201d De Beer said. Other politicians attempted more of a diplomatic egg dance.<\/p>\n

Jerome Swartz, previously a provincial ACDP leader who has since established the Africa Restoration Alliance, said his party was not concerned with international issues.<\/p>\n

We are not running for government for Palestine,\u201d Swartz maintained. After being forced to declare a position, he settled on: \u201cIsrael and Palestine are both wrong.
\nPagad\u2019s Cassiem Parker told the audience that what was happening in Gaza should be viewed as an \u201cacid test\u201d for SA political parties in terms of their response to racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you say to us you are more worried about what is happening in South Africa, then our acid test is: How can you tell us you are concerned if you are not concerned by racism? Surely, people of South Africa want to know: How do you as a political party view racism?\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarifying the \u201cOne bullet for the DA, one bullet for the PA\u201d slogan, Pagad national coordinator Haroon Orrie said it was meant symbolically. \u201cThe concept and the ideology that they bring forth, that is what we have to eradicate.<\/p>\n

\u201d But the greatest heat of the night was certainly on Yusuf Mohamed, representing the DA as a councillor in the City of Cape Town.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy position is exactly the same as my party\u2019s,\u201d Mohamed stated.<\/p>\n

Namely: a call for a \u201ccessation to hostilities\u201d, the right of return for Palestinians, a two-state solution, and agreement that \u201ccarpet-bombing\u201d civilians is a war crime.<\/p>\n

External observers may be confused by the anger directed at the DA on this issue. The DA has not, after all, refused to criticise Israel \u2014 as is the case with the Patriotic Alliance.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the DA\u2019s stance is relatively progressive by international (at least US) standards. But its condemnation of Israel, such as it is, has often been syntactically obfuscated in the statements the party has put out on the matter.<\/p>\n

To give one such example: \u201cWe recognise the way in which actions of the Israeli government, including the expansion of settlements deemed illegal under international law and, in some instances, by the country\u2019s own Supreme Court, has contributed to obstructing the path to peace.<\/p>\n

\u201d The party has also faced internal contestation on the handling of the issue.<\/p>\n

Daily Maverick understands from party insiders that the refusal of DA leaders to call plainly for a \u201cceasefire\u201d has been a source of contention for multiple party representatives.<\/p>\n

Instead, the DA has called for \u201curgent humanitarian pauses in the fighting\u201d \u2014 a distinction which might seem semantic, but is significantly weighted in the context of the current debate.<\/p>\n

Asked by Daily Maverick this week why the DA does not endorse a total ceasefire in the conflict, the party\u2019s spokesperson on international relations, Emma Powell, responded: \u201cThe DA has repeatedly called for an urgent resolution to this abhorrent war.<\/p>\n

This requires a negotiated settlement that will ensure lasting peace in the region. \u201d This has not been good enough for those both within and outside the party for whom the conflict rings very close to home.<\/p>\n

One was the former DA spokesperson on public enterprises Ghaleb Cachalia, who was relegated to the parliamentary back benches as a result of tweets he posted describing Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza as \u201cgenocide\u201d.<\/p>\n

The argument from party leadership was that Cachalia had violated \u201ca formal decision of the DA\u2019s national caucus\u201d as to what the party\u2019s public stance on the matter would be.<\/p>\n

Cachalia declined to comment on the matter to Daily Maverick this week. Since his demotion, however, Cachalia has published an op-ed in Business Day in which he affirmed the \u201cspecial significance\u201d of freedom of expression for parliamentarians.<\/p>\n

Although the column was not targeted in any specific way at the DA, Daily Maverick understands that party leadership was unhappy with it. Cachalia\u2019s treatment has not gone unnoticed in the Western Cape and has seemed to pour petrol on the already existing resentment over the DA\u2019s positioning on this matter.<\/p>\n

A few common themes come up repeatedly in conversation: a belief that the DA is pandering to a few Zionist donors at the expense of its all-important brown voters; a sadness that there is not greater solidarity from both the DA and the Western Cape\u2019s white population on this issue; and a suspicion that the DA\u2019s current position represents a modulation, with an eye on elections, intended to balance a history of more explicitly pro-Israel positions that are not easily forgotten by Cape Flats voters.<\/p>\n

A sign of the atmosphere of mistrust: rumours and misinformation are spreading like wildfire on social media. Most recently, the claim went viral that the City of Cape Town had prohibited Bo-Kaap residents from painting pro-Palestine murals on the external walls of their homes.<\/p>\n

The city said that no such prohibition had been issued. The DA\u2019s Powell told Daily Maverick that the party had undertaken polling which found \u201cthe war does not appear to be a priority that is impacting our polling results.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur experience, borne out by the empirical results of field polling and focus groups, indicates that voters remain primarily concerned about the effect of the many domestic crises which affect their daily lives.<\/p>\n

These are unemployment, load shedding, crime, education and corruption. \u201d The Social Research Foundation report on South African attitudes to Gaza at least partly bears Powell out.<\/p>\n

Of supporters of the ANC, DA and EFF, DA voters were the least likely to \u201cstrongly agree\u201d that Israel is imposing apartheid policies against Palestinians. Of the three biggest parties, DA supporters were the most likely to \u201cstrongly disagree\u201d.<\/p>\n

The six months until the 2024 elections is a long period in South African politics, and past research suggests that when voters are at the polls, what predominantly motivates them are issues much closer to home.<\/p>\n

The other question is: If Western Cape voters currently threatening to break faith with the DA over this issue actually do so, where will they go? Parties trading specifically in provincial identity politics, like the National Coloured Congress, have previously failed to make a discernible impact.<\/p>\n

The Muslim party Al Jama-ah may pick up some votes, but off a very low base: it currently has just one representative in the Western Cape legislature.<\/p>\n

Patricia de Lille\u2019s Good party has adopted a much stronger pro-Palestine attitude than the DA, but De Lille\u2019s position within the ANC Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa may well be mistrusted. There is, at this time, no clear beneficiary of a Western Cape electoral protest against the DA.<\/p>\n

It is also too early in terms of international politics to tell exactly how the Israel issue will make itself felt in other countries \u2014 but there is no doubt that the matter is roiling domestic politics in many countries.<\/p>\n

In the UK, the conflict could not have broken out at a worse time for the opposition Labour Party. In its strongest position for years, it has since lost more than 30 councillors to resignations over its refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, while no less than eight shadow ministers quit in mid-November.<\/p>\n

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