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Sidney V. Kaplan

Mar 26, 2024, 11:18 AM

‘Gaza’ is providing the ideal socially acceptable excuse to release innate expressions of antisemitism. With all the mayhem in the world today, I have the feeling that if Iran would drop the bomb on Israel today and wipe it off...

Sep 2, 2018, 5:12 PM

The Blame Game

My son, an Israeli with young kids of his own, asked: “Dad, how do you respond to questions relating to the suffering of civilians in Gaza?” Indeed, a gut-wrenching question from the heart responding to the visual and verbal...

Aug 14, 2018, 4:04 PM

Media Mafia: A ‘Contract’ Out On Israel

“It’s the economy, stupid.” Well, this may have been the line that helped Bill Clinton to the White House in the 1992 Presidential election and may be an explanation for 90% of the worlds unresolved problems, however, exclude the...

Aug 5, 2018, 11:43 AM

Through Hell and High Waters

I attended in June a concert in Dublin to hear Roger Waters. Listening to the music of Pink Floyd was a ‘high’; hearing Waters rant against Israel was ‘hell’. For me personally it had been a difficult decision whether to...

About Me

Sidney Kaplan is originally from South Africa and a founding member of Manof in the Galilee, since 1978. Today, he is retired, having been involved in marketing in Cape Town prior before coming to Israel, and in Israel, one of three partners involved in agriculture.