The article focuses on the development of the apartheid regime in reference to the diasporic movement of the previously de franchised Jewish community into South Africa. The articles notes discuss the Jewish communities process of post holocaust reappropriation and attempt at secession following systemic oppression and genocide.The article focuses on a specific time frame, between time of world wars to 1960, a period of the growth of regime propaganda and discrimination. This had been a period when the Jewish community sought to frame responses to antisemitism as a broader blueprint of democracy and racial …show more content…
The SAJBD INITIALLY affirmed that apartheid racism and anti-Semitism are inseparable. The "nine point programme" of 1944 represented "guiding principles" for "better race relations in sa"(Gilbert and Shirli 2010) together with The boards 1947 resolution which cited that "Jews must fight for rights of all"(Gilbert and Shirli 2010, pg 45) . Although the board had been critiqued as a conglomeration of interests rather than based on principles(Gilbert and Shirli 2010, pg 44). The board openly associated as a programme of non involvement in realities outside its immediate aims. The victory of the NP in 1948 meant an inversion in the board 's policies as it aligned with NP policy citing that no anti semitism existed in the NP policy(Gilbert and Shirli 2010, pg 49). This was accompanied by the NP decision to remove ban on Jewish membership in Transvaal branch in 1951(Gilbert and Shirli 2010, pg 50).The board 's memory had been selective as the board maintained the symbolic