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Apr 1, 2019, 6 tweets

In 1986, Farheed Zakaria was a student activist at Yale .... on behalf of apartheid South Africa

Here is the editorial @FareedZakaria wrote on behalf of Apartheid South Africa in 1986

Source:
(h/t @Nin_99 ) tinyurl.com/farheedAparthe…

For context, here is what the protesters were doing:

Zakaria apparently revitalized "Part of the Right" at Yale. Read this article from @DougHenwood about the "Party of the Right"
thenation.com/article/partyi…

According to this publication, Apartheid South Africa sought after POC to be their mouth piece.

Here is Andrew Hatcher. One of the chief spokesperson FOR apartheid South Africa

Liz Cheney wrote an editorial to her University's newspaper in 1988 in support of Apartheid:

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