“In the 1980s, could you be on the left and be pro apartheid South Africa?” Mehdi Hasan was challenged by Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio about why the US left should care about issues “from the other side of the world” like Gaza. His answer on Wednesday was simple: because “that’s always been the case” throughout history. On Novara Live, Banseka Kayembe reflects on the comparison Hasan drew with solidarity against apartheid in South Africa – and how it involves challenging an economic system.

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