Interesting to note that the Afro-Middle East Centre, seems to be sponsored by Al-Jazeera. "AMEC has been based in Johannesburg, South Africa, since its establishment. The Centre's first Executive Director was Waddah Khanfar, who later went on to become the General Manager of the Al-Jazeera media network based in Doha, Qatar."

It is now run by Na'eem Jeenah (ex Freedom of Expression Institute which is financed by George Soros' "Open Society") :
http://amec.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=59

And this is the stuff that Jeenah ,Friedman, Habib and Kasrils etc get up to:
http://amec.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111:amec...

http://amec.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116:depu...

The conference, supported by the Al-Jazeera Centre for Studies, took place from the 12 to the 14 April.

"The question participants will grapple with is: in an era in which states seek to define their national identity beyond the narrow parameters of ethnicity, how does an ethnic state such as Israel locate itself within the international arena?"

Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim is billed to deliver the opening address at the conference, while his predecessor, Aziz Pahad, will discuss the question of nationalisms and ethnicisms. Some of the sub-themes of what promises to be an exciting conference include: “Israel and its mythologies”, “Comparative ethnic nationalisms: Israel and South Africa”, and “Beyond ethnic nationalism: what possibilities for Israel”.