IT APPEARS Mr Exclusive or an accomplice was following Rodney Plett around. In a segment posted by Quaanitah Hunter's Debrief Network, we hear the Muslim influencer or an accomplice stating: 'Israel killed babies, this is the Jewish community' to...
Court Draws a Line Between Protest and Defamation in Cape Union Mart Case
THE Western Cape High Court has handed down a judgment that will likely reshape how activist campaigns in South Africa frame allegations against corporate targets — even as it stops well short of settling the underlying political dispute that sparked it. Judge Cloete's ruling, delivered on 4 Sept...
Lorgat and the ‘firehose of falsehood’
IN 2011 Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini coined what would become known as Brandolini's law, or the asymmetry principle. He contrasted the considerable effort of debunking misinformation with the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states: "The amount of energy needed...
Mandela Made Room for Zionists. His Admirers Don’t
NELSON MANDELA’S most-quoted line on Palestine travels the world redacted and stripped of company: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” It appears on murals and banners as though it were the whole of his position. It was delivered on 4 Decembe...
Allegations of Mendelsohn SLAPP case stretch credulity
A PIECE by Hassan Lorgat published by IOL mischaracterises two cases involving UCT professor Adam Mendelsohn. In the first instance, he takes issue with Tali Feinberg's article in Jewish Report on Mendelsohn v Choritz, in the second he condones Megan Choritz's crude criticism of the Mendelsohn le...
Voetsek Pieter Kriel’s religious police
The anointed, self-appointed, savior of the 'white race', Pieter Kriel, whose past gesticulations on issues to do with Afrikanerdom (involving ritual cleansing of his ancestors guilt), provided him with a pulpit, has now chosen to target black Jews and African Zionists. In the process Kriel displ...