After going quiet for some time, Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama on Thursday has sent many South Africans into complete upset with just one tweet.

The organization’s leader tweeted about the holocaust on Thursday morning, while many thought it was sarcasm relating to Helen Zille’s tweets on colonialism, his tweet was quickly labelled demeaning by The South African Jewish Board of Deputies.

For those claiming the legacy of the holocaust is ONLY negative think about the lampshades and Jewish soap. — andile (@Mngxitama) August 24, 2017

SAJBD’s national director Wendy Kahn labelled the tweet demeaning and hurtful in a statement.

“With this ugly‚ jeering remark‚ Mngxitama has portrayed not just the deliberate murder of Jewish people but even the supposed reduction of their remains to everyday objects as something to be treated as a joke. “It is deeply distressing that anyone could so casually and publicly dehumanise an entire people in this way. How much more outrageous it is when emanating from a public figure who heads up a political voice.”

She added that the reference to Jews in the Holocaust showed outright contempt for basic humanitarian‚ non-racial values‚ together with a complete lack of compassion for human suffering.

“His overtly hateful tweet is a flagrant attack on the fundamental rights to dignity and equality of Jewish South Africans and should be strongly condemned by all in our country. Civilised society‚ and certainly South Africa with its stained history of human rights abuses‚ has no place for those who condone the merciless massacre of millions of innocent people in the most cruel way.”

The SAJBD says they are reviewing their options in terms of what action to take against Mngxitama.

[Source: Times LIVE]