Mngxitama faces legal action over his Holocaust not ‘ONLY negative’ tweet

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) says it plans to take legal action against the leader of the Black First Land First (BLF), Andile Mngxitama, after he tweeted recently about the supposed “positive aspects” of the Holocaust.

Mngxitama tweeted on Thursday: “For those claiming the legacy of the holocaust is ONLY negative think about the lampshades and Jewish soap.”

His tweet was in reference to Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s controversial tweets earlier in this year praising certain aspects of colonialism.

The Holocaust saw the mass murder of at least 6 million people Jewish people in a plan by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany to implement what it called the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish problem”. It was alleged at the time that among many other grotesque industrial products of this wholesale slaughter was soap made from human body fat.

Mngxitama’s tweet has caused an outrage on social media, with Zille telling Mngxitama his tweet was reckless “in a country where cannibalism still occurs”.

The SAJBD’s national director, Wendy Kahn, said Mngxitama’s statement on social media was demeaning and deeply offensive to Holocaust survivors. She said there was no justification for his sentiments.

“We don’t find genocide to be humorous at all. We lost six million people in the Holocaust, in addition to the many other millions killed,” Kahn told EWN.

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