In search of the grain : Israel, the Palestinians, South Africa and Germany
Date
2019
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Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust
Abstract
In this article I investigate the scientific grounds for reflecting on Palestine-Israel in light of other struggles, particularly those against Nazism and South African apartheid. Keeping in mind the distinction between simplistic comparisons and the use of analogies when events are not exact replications of one another, I evaluate John de Gruchy’s intersectional approach to Israel and the Palestinians. Likewise, I reflect on the cross-contextual reasons for Jewish Israeli and South African activists’ impression of the Palestinian struggle being part of a broad moral struggle against othering that transcends the boundaries of the geo-political context. The article concludes that critical scientific discussions and responsible moral discernment on Israel’s relation with the Palestinians cannot ignore the meta-narratives of systemic injustices such as state-sanctioned violence, apartheid, colonialism or ethnic cleansing that gave rise to resistance movements and prophetic theology in the contexts of Nazism and South African apartheid.
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CITATION: Momberg, M. 2019. In search of the grain : Israel, the Palestinians, South Africa and Germany. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 5(3):145-164, doi:10.17570/stj.2019.v5n3.a07.
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Keywords
Palestinian struggle, Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945, Christianity -- South Africa, Christianity and politics
Citation
Momberg, M. 2019. In search of the grain : Israel, the Palestinians, South Africa and Germany. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 5(3):145-164, doi:10.17570/stj.2019.v5n3.a07