Protests coincide with a major genocide scholars’ conference in Johannesburg amid what Jewish leaders are calling "a campaign of intimidation."
Anti-Israel activists have targeted Holocaust and genocide centers in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, holding protests outside the institutions and sending threatening letters in what Jewish community leaders are calling “a campaign of intimidation.”
Two protests were held outside the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center (JHGC) in the past week, coinciding with an International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference it hosted from October 20 to 24.
Ahead of the conference, 14 anti-Israel organizations—including the South African BDS Coalition, South African Jews for a Free Palestine and Queers for Palestine—sent a “declaration of intent” to the JHGC, accusing it of “silence and complicity at a time when a genocide is unfolding before the eyes of the world.”