As always, their statement contains no reference to the hundreds of rockets fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad at Israeli civilians.

Via Times of Israel:

South African’s ruling party issued an extremely harsh statement on Operation Protective Edge Thursday, comparing Israel’s actions with those of Nazi Germany and accusing Jerusalem of turning the Palestinian territories into “permanent death camps.

The local Jewish community immediately condemned the statement as “obscene” and “venomous” and demanded a retraction and apology.

“The African National Congress (ANC) condemns in the strongest terms the barbaric attacks on the defenseless Palestinian people of Gaza,” the party’s deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, wrote in a statement. “As we move towards the month of August and are reminded of [t]he atrocities of Nazi Germany, surely we must ask the people of Israel has the term ‘lest we forget’ lost it[s] meaning.”

The statement, which contained more than a few factual inaccuracies, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, went on to list how many Palestinians were killed, wounded and “traumatized” during Israel’s current operation in Gaza. “The State of Israel,” Duarte wrote, “has turned the occupied territories of Palestine into permanent death camps.”