Nukes & Apartheid: The Guardian’s Double Libel
The Guardian claims an exclusive with a front page story: “Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons” accompanied by a number of related articles, including “Israel and apartheid: a marriage of convenience and military might”. These articles are based on a new book by American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky.
The latter headline is revealing in that it fits with a long-standing pattern of Guardian efforts to promote the Israel apartheid analogy. Notice how this headline sells the image of Israeli association with a particular ideology rather than the South African state itself. Indeed, Chris McGreal, the journalist behind these latest articles, was also responsible for a lengthy two-part diatribe comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa back in 2006.