The Economic Freedom Fighters, together with representatives from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and the Palestinian Solidarity Alliance, picketed the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria on Thursday.
"We are not here today because we hate the Jewish people, our march is not against the Jews, our march is against Apartheid Israel,’’ said EFF Leader Julius Malema to a bussed-in crowd of a few hundred supporters.
The event coincides with the centenary of the Balfour Declaration signed on November 2, 1917 where the British government outlined its support for the creation of a ‘’Nation home for Jewish People’’ in Palestine.
Malema likened the state of Israel to the Apartheid regime before calling for the closure of the South African mission in Israel and that of the Israelis in South Africa.