Former Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and Palestinian activist Youmna El Sayed and Mustafa Barghouti called on the Desmond & Leah Tutu Foundation in Cape this week.

They were welcomed by Dr Mamphela Ramphele, chairperson of the of the Archbishop Tutu IP Trust. The event was hosted by Journalists Against Apartheid which hosted a gathering on the genocide abomination in Gaza.

The briefing was delivered by Jeremy Corbyn, Youmna El Sayed and Dr Mustafa Barghouti.
Dr Ramphele said the trio’s collective work for justice and humanity in the ‘Holy Land’ would have met with the late Archbishop Tutu’s wholehearted support.

The Tutu IP Trust, which is responsible for managing the Archbishop’s archives, showed the delegation artefacts of particular interest reflecting the late Archbishop’s special relationship to the pursuit of justice in Palestine.

They include a silver Jerusalem Cross inscribed with the words Beit Sahour, the place near Bethlehem where Archbishop Tutu delivered a Christmas Eve sermon in 1989 outlining parallels between the situation in the Israeli-occupied territories and apartheid South Africa.

Also in the archive is a Palestinian stone representing the First Intifada, dated 8 December 1987. Tutu first visited the Holy Land in 1966.

The Archbishop Tutu IP Trust reiterated its call on Israel to immediately cease its genocidal actions in Gaza and engage in real talks for a settlement that would secure peace and justice for both the people of Israel and Palestine.