Femi Fani-Kayode recently bemoaned the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War on Twitter, drawing attention to the three years of malnutrition that three million Igbo people—one million of them children—went through. Fani-Kayode asked for Nigeria to apologise to the Igbo people for what he described as a horrific act of barbarism and genocide, and he denounced this as a war crime.
Fani-Kayode expressed grave concern and pointed out an irony: many Igbo people now openly support Israel in its battle with Gaza, despite having suffered tremendously during the civil war. Some even claim to be “Zionists” or “Jews of Africa.” Fani-Kayode strongly disagreed, claiming that there are no historical, racial, or ethnic connections between the Igbo people and Zionism or Judaism. This position was attacked by him as erroneous, naive, and self-serving.
Furthermore, Fani-Kayode criticized the misguided support for Israel, emphasizing Israel’s historical arms sales to Nigeria during the civil war and its treatment of Africans. He called for a condemnation of Zionism, urging Nigerians to recognize the plight of the Palestinian people and oppose the violence inflicted upon innocent civilians in Gaza. Fani-Kayode urged for a global stance against the injustices perpetrated by the Israeli government, emphasizing the need for empathy and condemnation of violence against all humanity.
He said: The Igbo are NOT Jews, they are NOT Zionists and they do not have ANY historical, racial or ethnic ties or connection with the Jewish state.
Anything outside of this is nothing but fallacy, fantasy, delusion, vanity, perfidy, ignorance, historical revisionism and self-serving clap trap.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.
Those that think otherwise fail to appreciate the fact that during the Nigerian civil war Israel sold arms to Nigeria, that not all Gazans are Muslims, that many Gazans are Christians, that Israel treats Africans and black people generally, including the Ethiopian Jews, with even more disdain and contempt than they do the Palestinians and Arabs and that the Jewish state not only despises Christians and treats them like outcasts and lepers but also mocks and laughs to scorn the ministry and calling of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and makes a practice of spitting on Christians and Churches.
If there were ever a case of misguided support for Israel it is coming from those Nigerians that call themselves Zionists and that believe that the Palestinian people deserve what they themselves suffered and were subjected to during our civil war.
May God open their eyes and guide them and may they join the rest of the world in condemning the Zionists of Israel and opposing the wickedness and evil that they are subjecting the innocent women and children of Gaza to.
