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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
In August 1975, at the height of the struggle for freedom from colonisation across the continent, Africa’s then continental body, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), declared: “…the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin… having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being…” Almost half a century ago, Africa’s leaders had already identified Israel as an apartheid state, a label now affirmed by some of the world’s…