Nelson Mandela: What the South African icon said about Palestine

Today marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
The anti-Apartheid leader, who is considered a global symbol of the struggle for justice, was a strong supporter of Palestinian independence.
Here are some of his most memorable statements on the Palestinian cause.
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  • @mirikaku5811
    @mirikaku58117 ай бұрын

    How we miss Mandela. The world needs this courage. 😢

  • @TD1237

    @TD1237

    5 ай бұрын

    Seriously. Such an icon. As a South African, I've always looked up to him.

  • @cataluniabueno5349

    @cataluniabueno5349

    4 ай бұрын

    .... ..Mandela Arafat... mistaque, error !!

  • @edumbecellelectronics4395
    @edumbecellelectronics43952 жыл бұрын

    Our freedom is incomplete without freedom of Palestine

  • @grbbbc

    @grbbbc

    2 жыл бұрын

    South Africans have their own freedom to starve now, we’ll done Nelson.

  • @bluepearlagain
    @bluepearlagain9 ай бұрын

    As South Africans we will ALWAYS stand with you !!!!!!

  • @hcpunkrockhxxx9247

    @hcpunkrockhxxx9247

    8 ай бұрын

    AMANDLA! AMANDLA! I love South Africa I love MADIBA ❣

  • @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju

    @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju

    8 ай бұрын

    Thankyou brother

  • @hcpunkrockhxxx9247

    @hcpunkrockhxxx9247

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju Sister 😉🙏🏽

  • @TD1237

    @TD1237

    5 ай бұрын

    Always! 🇿🇦

  • @fayzal-amoudy6285
    @fayzal-amoudy62853 жыл бұрын

    South Africa 🇿🇦❤ Palestine 🇵🇸♥

  • @Ear_Hear_Wear_Gear
    @Ear_Hear_Wear_Gear8 ай бұрын

    _"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."_ ~ Nelson Mandela

  • @user-zu2jn2wd6c
    @user-zu2jn2wd6c3 жыл бұрын

    Justice for Palestine

  • @sabre3923

    @sabre3923

    3 жыл бұрын

    Anti Palestine

  • @nedimlim6523

    @nedimlim6523

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sabre3923 end israHELL APARTHED ..there is JUSTICE .. end occupation, ETHNIC CLEANSING , COLONIALISM, RASIZAM , segregation...JUSTICE is a FREE and COUNTRY PALESTINE.

  • @masbel7709
    @masbel77093 жыл бұрын

    MashaAllah two great personalities and great leaders. May they rest in peace 🕊️🇵🇸🇿🇦🕊️

  • @a_r_k
    @a_r_k3 жыл бұрын

    God bless him, he knows injustice when he sees it

  • @abdoukadirrsambou8327

    @abdoukadirrsambou8327

    9 ай бұрын

    he is not like that clown Zelensky.

  • @Sam-Stars
    @Sam-Stars9 ай бұрын

    Nelson Mandela. Hero.

  • @MLOO123
    @MLOO1238 ай бұрын

    Nelson Mandela is the man that nothing can break him... A true icon for the Palestinians

  • @ungratefulninja4535
    @ungratefulninja45353 жыл бұрын

    Freedom, Justice and Equality for Palestine🇵🇸💚

  • @Chez114
    @Chez1143 жыл бұрын

    Mr Mandela's support of Palestinian independence couldn't be more succinct than it is in May 2021

  • @KyleRuggles

    @KyleRuggles

    3 жыл бұрын

    So true.

  • @nedalien1742

    @nedalien1742

    9 ай бұрын

    *2023*

  • @nsagoogle9581

    @nsagoogle9581

    9 ай бұрын

    @@nedalien1742 We are letting genocide happen, and have been for 75 years. It has to stop.

  • @user-nw7cj8ce6c

    @user-nw7cj8ce6c

    9 ай бұрын

    2023

  • @linab.5712

    @linab.5712

    9 ай бұрын

    2023

  • @henryluyombya
    @henryluyombya7 ай бұрын

    Nelson Mandela & Yasser Arafat were and remain great transformational leaders who cared for their people and for world peace. Thanks for your contributions to humanity. Continue impacting our lives even when you're in the heavens with angels.

  • @KyleRuggles
    @KyleRuggles8 ай бұрын

    We need to keep sharing these!

  • @riyaskv5201
    @riyaskv52019 ай бұрын

    It's not the Jews escalated issue but Americans and Europe..that's why they don't accept Mandela until now. He experienced similar oppression in SA and knows the pain of civilians by the apartheid regime..

  • @sonyequator6852
    @sonyequator68529 ай бұрын

    We miss a leader like Mr. Nelson Mandela and Mr. Yasser Arafat. Tough and big hearted. Love both of You.

  • @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju

    @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju

    8 ай бұрын

    Mr Fidel Castro was more vocal. Mr Mandela is more of a peace maker. But Israelis are so sturdy. They do not believe in peace of any sort. They have violated 30 human rights treaties so far

  • @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju

    @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju

    8 ай бұрын

    I would rather call them consistent strugglers. They suffered a lot & nobody should suffer at this level

  • @bobmoonah4421
    @bobmoonah44219 ай бұрын

    unfortunately we do not have any more great leaders in the world to talk for the oppressed people across the world

  • @laarazain9449
    @laarazain94499 ай бұрын

    Happy to see people like Nelson voice support for Palestine 🇵🇸 Apartheid regime must end !

  • @fahmad7194
    @fahmad71949 ай бұрын

    Mandela was a leader of the world, not just Africa ❤

  • @hcpunkrockhxxx9247

    @hcpunkrockhxxx9247

    8 ай бұрын

    Yes I ❤ Nelson Mandela MADIBA 🙏🏼 RIP SIR, my hero 😢

  • @martinha2856
    @martinha28569 ай бұрын

    We need more World Leaders like Nelson Mandela. Free Palestine! ❤️🙏

  • @niezaarabrahams7177
    @niezaarabrahams71772 жыл бұрын

    The Struggle continues and Victory is certain.

  • @rizwanali649
    @rizwanali6499 ай бұрын

    If alternative is violence. The we will use violence. - Nelson Mandela

  • @citizend878
    @citizend8789 ай бұрын

    2 Legends, on the summit of Human specy.

  • @TopTravel3

    @TopTravel3

    8 ай бұрын

    2 legend real legend real struggles ❤

  • @jeffparryncc1701
    @jeffparryncc17019 ай бұрын

    Love your work :)

  • @kitt7477
    @kitt74778 ай бұрын

    An amazing man, MaShAllah.

  • @zahedamohameds8359
    @zahedamohameds83599 ай бұрын

    Thanks to Naledi Pandor for making South Africa proud. Leader with a backbone

  • @ilirllukaci5345
    @ilirllukaci53459 ай бұрын

    Free Palestine!

  • @ashah8656
    @ashah86563 жыл бұрын

    #freepalestine ❤️ 🇵🇸

  • @sabre3923

    @sabre3923

    3 жыл бұрын

    #AntiPalestine

  • @hcpunkrockhxxx9247
    @hcpunkrockhxxx92478 ай бұрын

    AMANDLA! AMANDLA ❣ RIP MADIBA 🙏🏼😢We need you now...FREE PALESTINE 🙏🏼🇵🇸

  • @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju
    @Emeraldlioness14-lj1ju8 ай бұрын

    Today Libya has expelled diplomats of USA, UK,France,Germany,Italy because they are supporting Israel. Indeed,Africa has played a great role in freedom for Palestine Praying for Palestinians from Pakistan

  • @user-vj6mt8sb8v
    @user-vj6mt8sb8v9 ай бұрын

    My best freand Nelson Mandela ❤

  • @moosa9850
    @moosa98509 ай бұрын

    It would be greatly appreciated if someone from ME speaks to the indigenous people of South Africa who are still under occupation and treated like 3rd class citizens, just like Palestinians are being wiped out, so are the indigenous people, they have no rights to their land culture language mineral and marine resources. The indigenous people are being slowly wiped of the face of this earth through drugs and gangsterism. (Tau Tama !khams ge. The struggle continues)

  • @rimikhatun2764
    @rimikhatun27645 ай бұрын

    Now, we need a Nelson Mandela for our palastine.

  • @yaufu2386
    @yaufu23865 ай бұрын

    Icon of Freedom from oppression... Great N Mandela... RIP,,, Y Arafat his comrade RIP

  • @user-ci9fe6lr3t
    @user-ci9fe6lr3t6 ай бұрын

    Free Palestine 🇸🇩Aluta Continua (Struggle Continues) Amandla!✊🔥🇿🇦

  • @rafikaadildeti
    @rafikaadildeti8 ай бұрын

    Wooow

  • @estheffanie4649
    @estheffanie46498 ай бұрын

    the Yasser Arafat black and white keffiyeh, becomes a symbol for bravery in battlefield, resistance and freedom. even in Hollywood movies, like G.I Joe, Red Dawn. the actors wearing it, and you can feel the presence of the palestinians there.

  • @fightingforce8498

    @fightingforce8498

    8 ай бұрын

    Even in metal gear solid

  • @md.rashelmd.rashel1664
    @md.rashelmd.rashel16648 ай бұрын

    THE ONLY ONE MAN AFRICAN MR MANDELA YEASH BOSS congratulations ❤❤❤ LOVE YOU All HAPPY

  • @jacobngoso6990
    @jacobngoso69908 ай бұрын

    💯

  • @SS-gh6jy
    @SS-gh6jy9 ай бұрын

    Arafat hugged and kissed him like his real brother no white could have done that.

  • @Coconautify

    @Coconautify

    8 ай бұрын

    What the hell are you talking about, you racist?!

  • @bpmberkahplusmanfaat5881
    @bpmberkahplusmanfaat5881Ай бұрын

    💖🇪🇭💖 Humanity.. Free Palestine !

  • @rhukayaabdurahman4546
    @rhukayaabdurahman45466 ай бұрын

    VIVA Madiba. My Father. Long walk to Freedom ❤

  • @user-tz6jp7pq7y
    @user-tz6jp7pq7y7 ай бұрын

  • @hunniieable
    @hunniieable7 ай бұрын

    👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @aprilyamashita
    @aprilyamashita9 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @nasaMP4
    @nasaMP43 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @sussexsquadjustice
    @sussexsquadjustice7 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @elephantintheroom5678
    @elephantintheroom56787 ай бұрын

    Great men, both.

  • @abbydollars8679
    @abbydollars86799 ай бұрын

    Oct 2023. Madiba, we miss you.

  • @lameesahmad9166
    @lameesahmad91668 ай бұрын

    Rest in peace

  • @saaji55
    @saaji559 ай бұрын

    رحمة الله عليهم الإثنين

  • @libanabdi717
    @libanabdi7179 ай бұрын

    now south africa have amzing leader who still solidiarty wit palestine i dunno his name but he will become big

  • @jaggar28
    @jaggar289 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤ #freepalestine #palestine #gaza #israel #nakba #genocide #war #apartheid

  • @r.pakpahan912
    @r.pakpahan9129 ай бұрын

    Rest in Peace FREEDOM FIGHTERS..

  • @rauldeobaldia8276
    @rauldeobaldia82768 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @user-gc2yy4oi3s
    @user-gc2yy4oi3s7 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤Alhamdulillah Albarke

  • @ThabaniTBowseHadebe0909
    @ThabaniTBowseHadebe09099 ай бұрын

    South Africa will always stand with Palestine!

  • @alvarourbano3194
    @alvarourbano31948 ай бұрын

    Free palestine

  • @AbdulSattar-pi6un
    @AbdulSattar-pi6un8 ай бұрын

    Welcome

  • @fatoumasaad3863
    @fatoumasaad38639 ай бұрын

    L'AMOUR D'UN PEUPLE UNIS POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME, ET CONTRE LA VIOLENCE ET LA HAINE BRAVO BRAVO DIEU NOUS PROTEGE CONTRE LA VIOLENCE ET LA HAINE AMINE ❤️❤️❤️❤️✌️✌️✌️🚻🚻🚻🚻🚻🚻🚻🚻🚻

  • @nurlindafsihotang49
    @nurlindafsihotang498 ай бұрын

    #FreePalestine from rivers to the sea

  • @aleermathiang7124
    @aleermathiang71249 ай бұрын

    Yasser Afarafat was a great man.

  • @user-il5op5tc9m
    @user-il5op5tc9m9 ай бұрын

    Mandela got everything in this world only

  • @user-id2ok3lx3x
    @user-id2ok3lx3x4 ай бұрын

    free palestine RIP Mandela

  • @TpbBossoftheYear
    @TpbBossoftheYearАй бұрын

    Who has ever stood with African freedom, or any blacks reparations? How come the genocide in Congo is never shown on tv or anybody saying to stop it?

  • @ndodamakayi5220
    @ndodamakayi52206 ай бұрын

    Long live Yasser Arafat.

  • @arabianprincess3552
    @arabianprincess35529 ай бұрын

    ❤😢

  • @ikkeixarra4255
    @ikkeixarra42558 ай бұрын

    Mandela didn’t fight from jail, but was made a martyr from Jail because we thought Apartheid would kill him, it unfortunately didn’t and we had to endure our miscalculation

  • @garyspence2128

    @garyspence2128

    8 ай бұрын

    You miscalculated that oppressed people would continue to fight for their freedom? You thought dictatorship and oppression would triumph? Poor fellow. Your ignorance was your undoing. Should we pity you? Or be grateful that you had so little faith in humanity. Oh well, back to the drawing board for you. Mandela was a hero, in a very real way. Helped to liberate a nation. What have you done? Just asking...take as much time as you like to answer.

  • @nurlindafsihotang49

    @nurlindafsihotang49

    8 ай бұрын

    Sorry colonizer, us the people you tried to colonized would never surrenders.

  • @ibrahimsule8734
    @ibrahimsule87345 ай бұрын

    We will never be Free until the Palestinians are free.

  • @samggjudy7
    @samggjudy76 ай бұрын

    Some say the "world." We see how the world is operating. What do I miss?! After Mandela, there is no moral sense in leaders all over Africa,( for that matter,all over the world.) Have all of them lost it... To think logically, - I mean.

  • @abdulghani8269
    @abdulghani82698 ай бұрын

    Free Palestine

  • @chefbrothersBd
    @chefbrothersBd2 ай бұрын

    wish Nelson mandela was here today,

  • @jacobngoso6990
    @jacobngoso69908 ай бұрын

    Palestine will be free

  • @melvin6432
    @melvin64329 ай бұрын

    For freedom terrorism is not the solution. USA Russia UK France and Europe not doing its duty towards Palestinian people and Palestine you Arab world oycott them completely with unity,and see what happens, no need to shed innocent people's blood, matter solved very fast. Will do it? If you are really interested in doing so, do it without delay. From Tamil Nadu INDIA.

  • @MuantanamoMobile

    @MuantanamoMobile

    9 ай бұрын

    When there is no alternative, it actually kind is ..unfortunately. Same thing happened in -occupied- -Europe- against the 3rd r eic h. One man's free domfighter is a nothr ones, terr..

  • @abusameer2651
    @abusameer26519 ай бұрын

    If peace is achieved under 2 state solution then funding to Israel stops ...Drastic measures had to be taken to ensure status quo.....think!!!! Shalom

  • @kennethkarani8804
    @kennethkarani88048 ай бұрын

    What is the use u gain praise of the World but lose ur soul

  • @mauricioroberto9025
    @mauricioroberto90258 ай бұрын

    Yeah a celebrrity champion of freedom and humanity a legacy of almost a failed state SA is now stricken with brownouts and economic downturn tsk tsk

  • @mauricioroberto9025

    @mauricioroberto9025

    8 ай бұрын

    Wow racist for telling the truth!?

  • @JamesTT-tv7fg

    @JamesTT-tv7fg

    8 ай бұрын

    @@mauricioroberto9025 you just suggested was better of as a racist country where black people wasn’t allowed same rights ?

  • @soulfocus6114
    @soulfocus61148 ай бұрын

    Wonder what he would have said about Hamas - 7 October 2023

  • @DTL9164
    @DTL9164 Жыл бұрын

    Fake news.

  • @armandoherrera2734

    @armandoherrera2734

    9 ай бұрын

    What exactly are you considering fake news..I am not agreeing or disagreeing with your remark...please elaborate

  • @raymondsepheu581

    @raymondsepheu581

    9 ай бұрын

    What do you mean?

  • @nurlindafsihotang49

    @nurlindafsihotang49

    8 ай бұрын

    Fake account. Do better and earn your schekel.

  • @Lewis-106

    @Lewis-106

    8 ай бұрын

    Don't listen to him he is called gobar baktu😊

  • @KDean22
    @KDean228 ай бұрын

    ALL SPEECHES. NO BRILLIANCE. LIKE OBAMBA

  • @dorothy-z
    @dorothy-z7 ай бұрын

    Oh common, give it a rest. The Hamas works according to the motto „live and let die“. This is not the legacy of Arafat. He made oeace with Israel. But the Hamas was against this peace from the very first day They prefer terrorism. You can‘t make peace with terrorists. I am sorry for the Palestenian people because they don‘t have the Leadership they deserve.

  • @Haz3dNightfall
    @Haz3dNightfall Жыл бұрын

    "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!", a popular slogan used often in the Palestine movements, is used synonymous with Destroy Israel and painting the sea red with the blood of Jews. If Nelson Mandela knowingly supports this belief along with Arafat, then I have lost all my respect for this man.

  • @KiritoAkira

    @KiritoAkira

    10 ай бұрын

    Then I would respect him twice more

  • @CosmicValkyrie

    @CosmicValkyrie

    9 ай бұрын

    You'll find yourself without many friends in that camp.

  • @ibrahim2086

    @ibrahim2086

    9 ай бұрын

    such an icon and a great man does not need the respect of a b**ch like you

  • @connormcleod9595

    @connormcleod9595

    9 ай бұрын

    No. It's about being free from the river to the sea.

  • @Haz3dNightfall

    @Haz3dNightfall

    9 ай бұрын

    @@connormcleod9595 By Destroying Israel and the Jews of course.

  • @sabre3923
    @sabre39233 жыл бұрын

    Justice for Israel

  • @edumbecellelectronics4395

    @edumbecellelectronics4395

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fok Israel

  • @Randomperson-md9mu

    @Randomperson-md9mu

    2 жыл бұрын

    The sad thing is that you know what’s going on, but you choose to be ignorant

  • @Haz3dNightfall

    @Haz3dNightfall

    Жыл бұрын

    Psalm 83

  • @EnderKnightz

    @EnderKnightz

    9 ай бұрын

    NPC mindset

  • @stellaeliza5317

    @stellaeliza5317

    9 ай бұрын

    What kind of justice????? Be more specific,.. or just leave Internet instead that poison MINDS that will misinterprete okay??