Reaching out from the Global South
NO SOONER had the principal of the posh girls school, Roedean resigned, following a debacle over tennis, where the school at first refused to play Jewish scholars at King David, "because they were Jewish", then issued a series of communiques befor...
FOR DECADES South Africans from across the political spectrum paid lip-service to the so-called 'two-state solution' in the Middle East. Pandering to universal notions of human rights, racial equality and justice for all. Following the passing of our nation's founder, Nelson Mandela, whose ideal...
THIS past week has been quite a storm of racist invective aimed at Jews in general, and Israel in particular. It appears an Anglican girls tennis team had refused to play King David in Linksfield, due to the Jewish school's association with Zionism (too many Stars of David?), and following repres...
BEYOND the Loony Toon Hate Parade, will a movement to defend the world against militant theocrats and odious Jew-haters emerge? Those who are quick to label any defense of secularism in the Middle East (or at home) as an 'illiberal plot' against the very progressive values they claim to hold so d...
THE MENDELSOHN review application against two UCT Council resolutions is taking place in the Western Cape High Court. It presents important challenges to a debate on rival definitions of antisemitism, academic freedom and the right to dissent under the current constitution. The basis for the chal...
IN 2011 at the People's Health Assembly I asked a delegation of Palestinian doctors whether or not, a binational state solution like Belgium, in which the Flemish and Walloons coexist under a unitary constitution, could be a possible solution to the problem. Their answer, like so many answers I r...