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March 06, 1987 - Image 37

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1987-03-06

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South Africa who are now in
the United States. I knew the
girl who brought me break-
fast in the morning?'
The two men met, so to
speak, on the front lines. "I
had heard of this Jewish rab-
bi who was crazy in a white
area," said Mokgoebo. "I had
read about him. lbgether on
picket lines and at the funer-
als of black children killed by
white soldiers, this guy came
to life for me."
That Issacson was a Jew
had little bearing on his
friendship with Mokgoebo.
"For me, Ben was not a Jew,"
said Mokgoebo. "He was a
comrade, a fighter?'
"Zack's first reaction to
me," said Issacson, "was, 'The
police are beating everybody
up. What are you — a white
man — doing here?'"
As the two men got to
know each other, their reli-
gions' history and morality
influenced their friendship
and • their tactics. "I have
always thought," said Issac-
son, "that we Jews stand for
the widowed, the orphaned,
the poor, the exploited. This
is what Jewish prophetic
teaching is all about."
But not until 1985, said
Issacson, did the South Afri-
can Board of Jewish Deputies
issue a stand against apar-
theid. This was 25 years after
Issacson had begun his own
anti-apartheid work.
"And now having issued a
statement," said Issacson,
"they think they can come to
the United States and say
they have always been in the
struggle. But I have never
seen these people in jail. I
have never seen them in trou-
ble at all?' Issacson dispar-
aged those "who seek glory in
America over the bodies of
those they've ostracized and
excommunicated, such as
myself and a few others."
According to the rabbi,
only three of South Africa's
70 rabbis have been active in
their country's fight against
apartheid.
"Over the years," he said,
"many Jews have been in-
volved in the anti-apartheid
struggle, but not those who
claim to have been. Those
most active have been dis-
missed by the organized Jew-
ish community as being 'peri-
pheral Jews,' not really Jews.
Dennis Goldberg spent 23
years in prison with Nelson
Mandela, but he's called a
Communist/A.N.C. revolu-
tionary. There are Jews now
in detention in South Africa,
but the Jewish establishment
doesn't seem to give a damn
about them because they
don't follow the usual liberal
line of such people as Helen
Suzman, who is worshipped
by organized Jewry around

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