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May 18, 2013
11:32 pm

Are storm clouds over Rhodes campus as ugly as they were over Cambridge?

The Cambridge fiasco is one more battle anti-Zionists will chalk up. They have won a few – too many – but never for bigger loot than Professor Stephen Hawkins......

May 3, 2013
4:51 pm

Does it matter if a boycott campaigner addresses a Jewish audience?

What great principle is violated when a Jewish academic, unexceptional without his vocal support for boycotting Israel, speaks on some tepid topic at the South African Union of Jewish......

April 22, 2013
9:57 am

Obama’s peace broker and the great peace blocker

For the mired Middle East peace process the opposing camps vicariously blame four things: (1) The antipathy of Arab leaders to a Jewish flag in the neighborhood (2) Israeli settlement building......

March 24, 2013
7:18 am

Passover and the modern day Moses

The liberation of a people from slavery. No wonder Passover is a time when aficionados of human rights feel drawn to play a modern day Moses. ‘Let my people......

March 6, 2013
8:33 pm

The International Community: It is what it is

‘In two words we trust.’ If the Left – BDS – NGO – Arab axis has a backbone it would be a bodiless power......

November 23, 2012
3:12 pm

Possible that a famous journo can hate Israel but not Jews?

Two protagonists of Zionism start off in concert. One is a million man marcher and American Islamist; the other is a long-in-the-tooth British-turned Lebanese journo. The name of the......

November 14, 2012
5:34 am

Apartheid for the papparazzi

Conjure if you will, a Greek who sets out to make his reputation by defaming the Greek people. If that’s worth only a......

September 30, 2012
6:32 am

Jewish and Muslim: A tale of two treatments

The serial mayhem and murder visited upon American facilities and staff is meant to coerce the free world into censorship out of respect, perversely for a religion that respects......

September 11, 2012
4:42 pm

Zionists, Jews and Israel: Are they different for Israel-bashers?

Soviet bashers Under Stalin and then Kruscheff, the Soviets weaved Zionism, Jews and Judaism into one motif. Judaic sermons are the sermons of bourgeois Zionists. (Ukrainian broadcast, Korovograd, December 1959.) The character......

September 7, 2012
8:13 am

How anti-Semites protect themselves

In the mendacious media haunts of anti-Zionists it’s worse to accuse somebody of being anti-Semitic than to be anti-Semitic. That extends to Holocaust deniers who coattail on ‘middle-of-the-road’ anti-Semites, like......

July 28, 2012
2:22 am

Book Review by Chairman of Likud SA

HADRIAN’S ECHO: THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF ISRAEL’S CRITICS By Leon Reich We may have given up looking for a fresh take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When not prescribing......

July 6, 2012
1:53 pm

Don’t buy arguments for not buying goods made in Israel

Even if they’re the arguments of a former Israeli ambassador, don’t buy them. Alon Liel is an archetype figure spawned by an industry without parallel. I mean......

June 25, 2012
4:18 pm

Alice the purple color Hebrew-hating chicken Walker

Alice Walker won’t allow her book, The Color Purple to be read in Hebrew. Secreted off the forbidden record of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Cape Town, November 2011 Counsel for the......

June 19, 2012
9:56 am

IS the media anti-Semitic?

We've seen how the media conditions people to be anti-Israel. But does that have to mean the media is anti-Semitic? Already that's the wrong......

June 11, 2012
4:48 am

How media condition people to be anti-Israel

Consider this lofty statement on media conduct from Jovial Rantao, editor of The Sunday Independent in Johannesburg: Credibility is the lifeblood of our profession. Without it we are......

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