Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Mandela is notorious for openly advocating the practice of “necklacing,” in which a gasoline-filled tire is placed around a victim’s neck and set ablaze. She was imprisoned for four years for embezzling money from a fund that was supposed to help AIDS victims—and she should have gotten life in prison for murder.

And in South Africa yesterday, this foul creature had the unbelievable gall to call for “the defeat of apartheid Israel.” (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former president of the African National Congress Women’s League, said on Thursday: “Apartheid Israel can be defeated, just as apartheid in South Africa was defeated.”

Madikizela-Mandela was addressing a meeting arranged by the Palestine Solidarity organisation in Lenasia, Johannesburg, to protest against the recent assassination by the Israeli state of the leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

She described the killing of Yassin - who inspired a campaign of suicide bombings in Israel - as a “cowardly act that took the life of a brave hero”.

Madikizela-Mandela said the United States government’s response to the killing was “wishy washy”, and she criticised the US for not describing Israel as a terrorist state.

The Palestinian ambassador to South Africa, Salman Eiherfi, greeted the crowd with a shout of “Viva, Palestine, viva!”

Eiherfi said: “They kill our sons, but they will never kill the spirit of our people. Although they have killed Yassin, other Yassins have been born.”

He said the security wall being built by Israel was aimed at “killing the spirit of the Palestinian people, and hope for an independent Palestinian state”. …

Among the posters that were displayed read: “Ariel Sharon is a mass murderer”, “Zionism equals to Nazism”, “Apartheid Israel has weapons of mass destruction”, “What’s wrong with the single state solution?” and “Expel Israel from South Africa”.

Winnie knows a little something about terrorism herself; here’s a description of the kinds of things her goon squads used to do:

Acting in her name, Winnie’s boys would burst into a house with much clamour and show of force, before compelling an intended victim into a vehicle and driving him off to the place of interrogation - Winnie’s house. Once there, a mutated form of police questioning would occur, with verbal abuse, kicking, punching, whipping, beating and slapping. Instead of mock executions at gunpoint, victims would be hung from the ceiling; instead of being hooded and blindfolded, they would have plastic bags placed over their head, and have their faces shoved in buckets of water. Instead of electric shocks, their flesh would be carved and, as cited in one case, battery acid would be smeared into the wounds. And instead of being dangled out of a window by their ankles they would be thrown up in the air and left to hit the floor - a practice known as “breakdown”.