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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...
South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, signed a memorandum of understanding with Syria this week. Last month, she was in Tehran,...
The South African cabinet has taken the radical decision to bring back its diplomats in Israel, which will effectively shut down its embassy in Tel Aviv....
As Israel’s war on Hamas intensified this week, so too did the one-sidedness of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) against Israel...
Johannesburg woke up last Friday, 27 October, to big red balloons waving across the Nelson Mandela Bridge, which links Braamfontein to Newtown, but it wasn’t a...
The conflict between Hamas and Israel has spilled onto the streets of South Africa and around the world. Events thousands of kilometres away have brought out...
When Cyril Ramaphosa became president in February 2018, many South Africans were elated. We had survived the cesspool of corruption and state capture that characterised the...
On 11 October, a letter purporting to be from Hamas to South Africa, started spreading like wildfire on WhatsApp, four days after the murderous Hamas attack...
If you’re in an Orthodox shul on Shabbat morning, you may notice that the prayer for South Africa sounds different. It has been rewritten by Chief...
I’m still reeling in shock, disbelief, and anger at the brutal, well-coordinated Hamas attack on Israel from Gaza that began on 7 October. Numbers are hard...
The Abraham Accords normalising Israel’s relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in September 2020 seemed to come out of the blue. Soon after came normalisation...
Every September, speeches by heads of state at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s general debate are meant to take less than 15 minutes. Although often...
With his arrival in 1933, the charisma, chutzpah, and public speaking prowess of Rabbi Moses Cyrus Weiler launched Progressive Judaism in South Africa. Some of the...
The four “Ds” that defined his two terms as the fourth president of Botswana from 2008 to 2018 were “democracy, development, discipline, and dignity”. He was...
“I have not seen the likes of this since the Yitzchak Rabin assassination in 1995. It’s a rip in the fabric of society and the national...
The BRICS group, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, last week decided to more than double in size. At its Johannesburg summit,...