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Dara Horn’s new graphic novel imagines the seder as a Harry Potter style portal which opens up centuries of Jewish history for us. It imagines seders...
Radical Islamism or Islamic fundamentalism is fuelling antisemitism in the West, experts agreed at a panel discussion held in Jerusalem at the International Conference on Combating...
NOT FOR SENSITIVE READERS “Jewish people murder, rape, and eat children,” claims aspiring South African comedian Thomas Torr in a recent YouTube video. He is one...
I’m lying at a beach resort, the kind of place where time stretches, where the biggest decision of the day is whether to order another coffee...
The Israel hatred on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus shocked a South African-born Israeli influencer who has used his five million TikTok followers to...
The leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Johannesburg City Council this week demanded that the mayor secure an urgent public apology from a council...
What if, for thousands of years, a remarkably small group of people, less than 0.1% of the global population, were blamed for everything? Imagine if, despite...
A late-night incident at OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday, 4 February, ignited global outrage and confusion after three religious Jewish men were denied permission to...
Australian Jewry is facing a “tsunami of antisemitism”, according to South African expat and former chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies...
“Skyrocketing rise”; “Spreading a fire already out of control”; “Like a dam burst”; “Open season on Jews”; “A year of disbelief”. Reports on what Jewish communities...
This past December was unusual, with Chanukah coming later in the year and coinciding with Christmas when many members of the community were well into their...
The chairperson of Cape Town’s prestigious Bishops Diocesan College Council has resigned following mounting pressure after his antisemitic Facebook post drew weeks-long, widespread condemnation. The post...
The South African government has “sold its soul for cash”, and made alliances with countries whose ideologies oppose those of this country, according to a new...
“Jews have been trying to take over the world for thousands of years. This is why they have been kicked out of 109 countries over 1...
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...
It’s rare to encounter openly antisemitic sentiment in South Africa, but self-styled politician Mehmet Vefa Dag, who has Turkish roots, delves into anti-Jewish tropes on a...
Jay Kaplan may now be studying at the University of Chicago (UChicago), but his strong Jewish identity emanating from growing up in Johannesburg led him to...
In spite of an alarming global increase in antisemitism, South Africa appears to have settled since the initial stages of the war in Gaza, which resulted...
The University of South Africa (Unisa) has blamed Israel for Hamas’s 7 October massacre, also claiming that “the Zionists” are “abusing” the concept of antisemitism and...
To understand why Jews are standing against Israel and with Hamas post-7 October, we need to step back and examine the broader phenomenon of internalised anti-Jewishness....
Almost 70% of Israelis living in the diaspora say that antisemitism in the country they now live in has increased to a greater or moderate extent...
Jewish identity delicately balances two opposing attitudes toward the non-Jewish world. We’re a particularistic race, asserting an exclusive covenant with Hashem, which awards us His land...
“Zionists have no moral claim to Palestine – certainly no more than the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] has to India, Afrikaner nationalists had to apartheid South...
The South African Jewish community is calling on South African Justice Minister Ronald Lamola and the African National Congress government to stop dismissing antisemitism and to...
Though antisemitism in South Africa has undoubtedly intensified since 7 October, its extent is lower than that recorded in many countries around the world. The number...
Of the 182 antisemitic incidents reported to the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in the first 11 months of 2023, 63% occurred after 7...
The great Jewish British philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, once quipped, “Antisemitism is hating Jews more than is strictly necessary.” This humorous definition was quite valid in merry...
Since the massacre in Israel on 7 October, there has been a surge in antisemitic incidents without precedence for decades. The numbers are astonishing. In the...
Levels of antisemitism are a test of how stable a society is, says Holocaust-studies specialist Professor Michael Berenbaum, dissecting the rise in antisemitism exacerbated by the...
Greg Saunders* hung his head in shame when he was marched out of his dream job, carrying just a box of his work belongings, because he...
South African Jews aren’t cowering from the increased antisemitism following the war between Israel and Hamas, but displaying their Judaism in any way possible. The SA...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
Jewish academic Dr Alexander O’Riordan described the South African Jewish community as a producer of “settler terrorists” that go to Israel to commit violence. He also...
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), incidents of antisemitism in the United States increased 36% from 2021 to 2022. Over the past year, the highest number...
“The image that Palestinians portray in the English media is very different from the messages they send to their own people in Arabic,” Itamar Marcus said....
Many people have stood up to presidential hopeful Mehmet Vefa Dag’s radical homophobia, but few have called out his rabid antisemitism. However, one young Jewish woman...
An obscure South African politician, who has become known for his homophobia, recently added classic antisemitism to his repertoire with tweets that could easily fit into...
A swastika spraypainted onto an electricity box near Stellenbosch was available for all to see, but it was a Cape Town rabbi who stepped up to...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has once again allowed the flags of terrorist organisations to be draped on its campus and a recognised antisemite and...
For the first time since Israel’s establishment, the ministry of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism has decided that non-Israeli victims of antisemitic terror attacks in the...
