Reaching out from the Global South
YOUR LETTER is published behind a paywall associated with an apartheid media company that refuses to publish my own letters and has censored and destroyed my writing and photography, but is copied on social media. My earlier piece on Nigel Branken...
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 before resorting to an embarrassing apology, persons su...
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...
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...
IT was Sartre who remarked: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” The French philosopher's seminal work Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate details the manner in which Anti-Semites objectify and deprive Jews of rights ordinarily enjoyed by others. O...
ON SUNDAY Heinz Winckler, a local Pastor, posted images of what appears to be a Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) demonstration outside Cape Union Mart, in Canal Walk, Cape Town. The demonstrators can be seen holding Pan Arab flags (common to Jordan, Palestine, Western Sahara), and placards cla...