ANC decides South Africa should downgrade ties with Israel

‘South Africa’s ruling party wants to sharply downgrade ties with Israel.
At its national policy conference on Tuesday, the African National Congress adopted a recommendation “to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel to a liaison office in a bid to reduce diplomatic ties,” the Mail & Guardian newspaper reported.
The policy will go to the ANC’s national conference for ratification in December.
“Our embassy has failed to achieve its necessary political objective over the past 22 years in moving Israel closer to a resolution on the Palestinian question,” Faiez Jacobs, an officer in the Western Cape provincial branch of the ANC which proposed the recommendation, told the newspaper.
The move is intended to send a “strong message” in protest of Israel’s continued military occupation and human rights abuses against Palestinians.’
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