Nomvula Mokonyane

"What you see happening in Israel happens daily in Palestine, and cameras are not there.”"

"“We have said we must condemn the occupation of the Palestinian land by Israel, we must condemn the bombing of men and women in Palestine and even here it is Hamas it’s not the people of Palestine."

"The ANC’s stance against “apartheid Israel” did not mean that the ANC was “anti-Jew”."

"As the ANC we are prepared to talk to anyone and everyone. The issue is about whether all those people are committed towards a negotiated peace settlement,”"

"“Here you have [Benjamin] Netanyahu, who says I’m going to crash Gaza, I’m going to hunt for these people and retaliate and nobody’s saying you must go to the ICC. But we’re all quick to have condemned Gaddafi and we were all too quick to say comrade Putin has to go to the ICC, how inconsistent. We must put the blame on Netanyahu and more importantly on the United Nations."

"We’re not anti Jewish. We’re not anti Jews. We’re not, it’s not the position of the ANC. We are anti terrorism against innocent people, we are anti the hostile takeover of people’s land. We are anti anything that stands in the way of self determination by any nation.”"

"“As for the bigger agenda to isolate and frustrate me, I think I am not in the space of feeding into dubious characters obsessed with malice,”"

"“We can’t then not talk about the inconsistencies of the application of the international law and the ICC, why is Tony Blair not in the ICC?”"

"The ANC was not “anti-Jewish” despite its opposition to “apartheid Israel.”"

"I think all of us have been yearning to have a structure of the ANC Youth League because for the past elections and also just in the course of the implementation of our programmes, you could actually feel the void of the ANC Youth League,"

"This is a reminder that there must be discourse around a cultural boycott, including the grapes and vegetables we get from Israel. There must be a time when we become aggressive towards Israel,"

"But the march was “canned” after a decision by national officials in what insiders’ claim was an attempt to “frustrate and isolate”"