IT was Sartre who remarked: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” The French philosopher's seminal work Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate details the manner in which Anti-Semites objectify and deprive Jews of rights ordinarily enjoyed by others. O...

THE President's quest for an extra-Parliamentary mandate in the face of ANC failure to gain a Parliamentary majority, necessitating a ruling coalition, is failing to persuade anyone. In delivering his political sermon today, Ramaphosa appeared to be seeking a mandate beyond the ruling coalition,...

The press are lying to us about farm murders

FOR DECADES South Africa's ruling ANC has clung to the notion that solidarity with the Palestinian cause translates into influencing events on the ground. Yet the upshot of expelling the Israeli ambassador Eliav Belotsercovsky following the atrocity of 7/10, appears to be an ingress into the conf...

Dear Ebrahim Rasool, YOUR CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL INTIFADA, CLERICAL DICTATORSHIP & JIHAD REFERS We first met at Community House back in the 1980s, where your organisation, World Council on Religion and Peace (WCRP) had its offices. Subsequently you became involved in environmental justice...

PRETORIA'S foreign policy is in complete disarray following the demarche of the Pro-Jihad Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool from Washington on Friday. The expelling of the Islamist South African ambassador to the United States signals an unprecedented escalation of tensions between the two countries. Not...