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Politicians and the media make assumptions about what South Africans think about foreign policy. Whether it’s conflict in the Middle East; relations with the West and...
Donald Trump’s resounding shellacking of Kamala Harris at the polls on 5 November took many by surprise, including me. Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to...
Many admire the humanitarian work that the Gift of the Givers Foundation performs in the world’s disaster areas, providing relief from floods, earthquakes, and wars. It...
As the world enters its second year since the murderous Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, the oldest hatred is alive and well in...
“No-one could imagine a 7 October. The magnitude of what happened that day was entirely new and unprecedented. We didn’t have the resources. We listened to...
It’s never easy to grieve for one’s late parents. Israeli-born architect Amos Goldreich, the son of South African struggle hero Arthur Goldreich and Israeli designer Tamar...
There’s a novel change in seating arrangements for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79), which began on 10 September in New...
South African-born Aviva Siegel is fighting with every fibre of her being to get her beloved husband, Keith, aged 65, released with the other 100 hostages...
With Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza dragging on relentlessly and no deal to free the hostages captured on 7 October within grasp, a kernel of...
Despite the hostility shown towards Israel and Jews from the political left in the United States, about 70% of American Jews are still likely to support...
Anti-Israel sentiments on billboards alongside Gauteng’s roads have abounded since the Hamas terror attack of 7 October, but now the public has recourse against anonymous adverts...
As the Israel-Hamas war grinds on relentlessly and a deal remains elusive, the United States (US) isn’t the only sheriff in town. In recent months, Beijing...
In the Middle East’s eye-for-an-eye conflict, Israel is bracing itself for a threatened military response from Iran. This follows the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh...
There’s been an embarrassing and alarming display of insubordination and mixed messages from the country’s newly minted government of national unity (GNU), and Israel is at...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog accused the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague this week of mixing politics with law, rejecting what he called the...
As former American President Donald Trump, 78, walked away from an attempted assassination on 13 July, the world is asking whether this will make him a...
This year, about 90 countries are holding – or have held – an election. That’s almost half the states in the world going to the polls....
If the Jewish community and its supporters were hoping for a more Israel-friendly minister of international relations and cooperation than Dr Naledi Pandor, they might be...
On 5 October 2023, retired Israeli Colonel Miri Eisin appeared on the i24 TV channel reflecting on 50 years since the Yom Kippur War. When asked...
While all eyes are on what the United States (US) says and does in the Middle East, another great power is flexing its diplomatic muscles in...
For the fourth time in five months, South Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the Genocide Convention yet emerged with...
Ireland, Norway, and Spain have declared that they will formally recognise “Palestine” as a state on 28 May, even though it doesn’t fulfil any of the...
Just 10 days before South Africa holds its sixth democratic national and provincial elections since April 1994, the Jewish community in Johannesburg hosted two different events...
The South African government has initiated a fourth attempt since December 2023 to force a ceasefire in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in...
Johannesburg drivers have been confronted by multiple billboards calling for Israel to be banned from the Paris Olympic Games, which begins on 26 July this year....
Many South African Jews have felt violated, isolated, and vilified since the savage Hamas terror attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the hatred spawned...
“The only difference between Hamas and the Nazis is that the Nazis hid what they did – or tried to hide it, and Hamas doesn’t try...
Like a dog with a bone, the South African government just won’t let go of its legal challenges against Israel. On 6 March, South Africa petitioned...
In the United States Congress this week, a resolution was introduced condemning the case of genocide against Israel brought by South Africa at the International Court...
While the South African government is fixated on Gaza and accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice, it’s largely indifferent to the murder...
A huge billboard emblazoned with “Israeled [verb]: taking something that isn’t yours, and then shamelessly pretending it belongs to you while playing the victim” in Johannesburg...
American politicians are calling for the United States (US) to review its bilateral relations with South Africa, which may have dire economic and political consequences for...
Last week, two senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders declared that South Africa might be punished for its outspoken foreign policy positions. Facing blowback after taking...
“The question of genocide is a tricky one,” said Jakub Nowakowski, the director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre. “In spite of horrible things...
Tali Nates, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), received the United States State Department’s International Religious Freedom Award in Washington,...
It’s a pernicious myth that Jews went “like sheep to the slaughter” in the Holocaust. This is the central message of a new documentary film, titled...
The world is waiting for 17 international judges to give an interim ruling on a critical court case. On 11 and 12 January, Israel faced off...
With more flip-flops than a Havaianas store, the South African government isn’t severing diplomatic relations with Israel after all – for now at least. This is...
In our last edition of the year, I look back at how my predictions for 2023 panned out, and what 2024 may hold. Last year, I...
Last week, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led the charge in Parliament to expel the Israeli ambassador from South African soil, before he was dramatically “recalled...
