April 3, 2013
12:35 pm

Comfortably Dumb?

Calling all Pink Floyd fans! It is time we demand that the band reunites. It is clear that Roger Waters needs a hobby besides letter writing and Israel bashing. Last week......

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February 25, 2013
6:28 am

No Rabbi Boteach, the Jews of South Africa have NOT been muted

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's blog post Getting the Apartheid-Israel Equation Right covers a number of interesting if contentious points. He certainly does dispel some of the Apartheid accusations leveled against......

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February 12, 2013
3:06 pm

Hate-a-Palooza – Apartheid Israel Week Begins!

It is an annual event held on university campuses around the world. An anticipated festival featuring clowns and jokers and a whole bunch of magic tricks. The rock stars......

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December 20, 2012
7:45 am

Surviving Aliyah – A-musings from an Olah-not-so-Chadesha

They say that time flies when you are having fun. This is so evident when one makes Aliyah and seeing that today is my second "Aliyahversary" I thought it......

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November 7, 2012
6:27 am

Gideon Levy and the dangers of the apartheid canard

As a young child growing up in Apartheid South Africa I witnessed the daily humiliation and persecution of my fellow citizens who were denied their basic human rights. I......

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October 24, 2012
4:02 pm

The Silence of the Lambs

Over the last 24 hours, Southern Israel has been the target of a barrage of over 60 rockets and mortars that have been fired on her civilian population by......

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October 17, 2012
5:51 am

The curious case of Rob Davies, the label whore

It would appear that South African Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies is something of a labeling whore. But not designer labels, rather his penchant or his obsession......

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September 5, 2012
11:30 am

Tales from the South…

For a teeny country that is squashed into space smaller than New Jersey or the Kruger National Park, Israel is a study in contrasts - be it the ever......

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August 7, 2012
3:21 pm

Guiding the Perplexed…..

Israel is a wonderful hodge-podge or mosaic of different cultures and a hotbed of innovative ideas. Hey, we have become the people of the book. Not just the Facebook......

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July 25, 2012
11:03 am

It only takes a minute…

Israelis are used to the visuals. The solemn flag draped coffins that bear the bodies of those that return home to Israel, killed because hatred knows no borders. Targeted......

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July 2, 2012
4:06 pm

Label This!

Last Thursday, Christian and Jewish South Africans marched together in a show of solidarity against the SA Department of Trade and Industry’s proposal to start re-labelling Israeli goods as......

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June 21, 2012
4:29 pm

Driving Miss Crazy – The Sequel

I am finally a licenced meshuggah Israeli Driver. After, ahem, having to do my driver’s licence a second time, I have been given the green light to terrorise fellow motorists.......

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June 11, 2012
2:53 pm

A Rainbow Nation

Israel can be proud of many things. Advanced ground breaking technology, the ability to combine the ancient with the modern, cramming people from 82 different countries into a tiny......

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May 20, 2012
11:02 am

South Africa – STILL Practicing Apartheid

During the Apartheid years, South Africa was seen as the world’s number 1 pariah state. Officially excluded from the family of nations, South Africa was subjected to harsh policies......

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May 8, 2012
11:31 am

I Am Woman. Hear Me Silenced?

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers to great to ignore, lala la … Does anyone remember the Helen Reddy song I am woman that was released circa 1971?......

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