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 By Sabrina Miller

South Africa is hosting an anti-Israel conference next week featuring a British activist who defended Hamas terrorists, as well as international campaigners who celebrated the October 7 massacre.

The President of South Africa is expected to open the controversial pro-Palestine conference with a keynote speech at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on May 10.

The two-day conference was met with fury last night as South Africa was accused of 'taking the side of those who want to destroy Israel'.

Eylon Levy, former Israeli government spokesman, said: 'South Africa has made itself an active combatant in the antisemitic global war against Israel's existence.'

Jonathan Turner, chief executive of voluntary organisation UK Lawyers For Israel, said: 'South Africa's support of this conference appears to be a flagrant violation of its international obligations under the Genocide Convention.'

The event, titled 'Towards a global movement to dismantle Israel's settler-colonialism and apartheid', will include speeches from former South African

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