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 Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) is once again pushing for mechanisms to vet, license and regulate ALL religious organisations and leaders. Freedom of Religion South Africa maintains the proposa...

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...

MORNING Yoga in a prison cell catapults me out of E-Section, the door literally unlocks itself as I am led away by a burly Afrikaner warden, only too pleased to see me. I am once again processed for the transport to Caledon Square, the holding cells at the Magistrates Courts, in which one is luck...

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...