Reaching out from the Global South
A PIECE by Hassan Lorgat published by IOL mischaracterises two cases involving UCT professor Adam Mendelsohn. In the first instance, he takes issue with Tali Feinberg's article in Jewish Report on Mendelsohn v Choritz, in the second he condones Me...
The anointed, self-appointed, savior of the 'white race', Pieter Kriel, whose past gesticulations on issues to do with Afrikanerdom (involving ritual cleansing of his ancestors guilt), provided him with a pulpit, has now chosen to target black Jews and African Zionists. In the process Kriel displ...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, the Cape Town-born pianist whom Nelson Mandela called "our Thelonious Monk" died peacefully in Germany on June 15, 2026, following a short illness, surrounded by loved ones. He was 91. He had last performed barely three months earlier, on March 27, at the Cape Town International...
I ENCOURAGE readers to condemn Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) for targeting businesses merely because some directors happen to be Jewish. There are no 'Cape Union Mart' branches, as its name implies, within Israel, and no connection other than some directors happen to be Jewish. PSG have fai...
ON JUNE 1–2, 1941, as British forces momentarily withdrew from Baghdad, a mob unleashed a systematic slaughter of the city's ancient Jewish community. Nearly 180 Jews were killed, hundreds more wounded, and thousands of homes and businesses were looted and destroyed. The Farhud — Arabic for "viol...
The fires have been burning for months. Migrants are beaten in the streets, schoolchildren riot against foreign classmates, and a charismatic activist whips crowds into a frenzy with warnings that foreigners will "say they discovered us." Yet for mainstream press, South Africa's anti-immigrant cr...