Like all right-wing extremists, Elon Musk He is a hypocrite who only defends their freedom of expression. Yesterday, the South African-born billionaire blocked the profile of the grandson of South Africa’s liberator on his platform Nelson Mandela, Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela.
The day before, Musk had republished a message from the genocidal prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with attacks on university students in the United States who demonstrate in support of the Palestinian cause.
The fact is that Musk’s X network banned Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, who is a member of the South African National Assembly. The company did not comment on its decision to restrict the South African politician’s speech, but the reason is clear:
Honoring his grandfather’s memory, Mandela has spent the past week making several public appearances in support of Palestinian liberation, citing his grandfather before his trip aboard the Freedom Flotilla, sailing from Turkey to Gaza, with the intention of providing more than 5,000 tons of aid to the war-torn enclave.
“My grandfather considered the Palestinian struggle to be the greatest moral issue of our time,” Mandela said in a speech posted on social media on Friday. “He made a commitment to the Palestinian people by saying that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people.”
Help and denunciation of the genocide
In a separate statement issued on Thursday, Mandela explained that “Freedom Flotilla for Gaza aims to draw international public attention to the atrocities, genocide and war crimes committed against the people of Gaza”.
So far, the flotilla of ships’ departure has been delayed due to a set of ship inspections triggered by an Israeli pressure campaign, Al Jazeera reported, although a retired U.S. Army colonel and State Department official who organized the flotilla said that the ships had already passed all inspections and were ready to set sail.
To get to Gaza, the flotilla will have to break an Israeli blockade originally established in 2007. Previous efforts to break the blockade by humanitarian missions have ended in death. In 2010, the six-ship Freedom Flotilla I was intercepted by Israeli forces, who approached the ships via helicopters and speedboats in international waters, shooting and killing nine activists.
Keeping an eye on the flotillas is essential for their safety, according to one of the organizers of the aid dispatch.
“We’re trying to bring everyone’s attention to the Flotilla to make sure the world knows and Israel knows we’re coming so they can’t fire a missile at us and say it wasn’t intentional,” said Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American . lawyer and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, told Al Jazeera.
By silencing the profile of Mandela’s grandson on his social network X, Musk wants to silence the denunciation of the genocide and prevent humanitarian aid from reaching Palestinians in Gaza.
And it is significant that a white South African billionaire would block Mandela’s grandson.
Just as South Africa got rid of apartheid, Palestine will one day finally be free and free from the Palestinians.
