THERE is an astonishing contradiction at the heart of the latest Amnesty International Report on Israel, one deserving further analysis. Resolving it, could be the key to unlocking a potential solution. Ignoring it, could mean, business as usual, since the document's omission of history and demog...

SOME get what Whoopi was trying to say: 'Slavery wasn't about race, Apartheid wasn't about race, the Holocaust wasn't about race. It was about man's inhumanity to man.' (Or in the case of Leni Riefenstahl, woman's inhumanity to woman). Except, that wasn't exactly what she was saying. The wording...

MANY eulogies following the death of Desmond Tutu exaggerate the Anglican cleric's post-democratic contribution in the process glossing over serious shortcomings. That Tutu was a leading light in the struggle against apartheid can never be cast in doubt, and I take pride in having marched with hi...

Dear Haidar Eid, We don’t know each other. I only know that your name is Haider Eid and just heard of your name this month, when your letter written in response to Miss South Africa's attendance at the Miss Universe pageant held at the Port of Eilat, on the Southern Negev desert and Red Sea, […]

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA alleges that we are experiencing unprecedented acts of sedition intended to destabilize and disestablish South Africa via economic sabotage and insurrection. This week's civil unrest was "nothing less than a deliberate, co-ordinated and well-planned attack on our democracy," h...

IF YOU think replacing an Haraam Israel with an Halaal Palestine is the great moral issue of our time, instead of bothering to grapple with the complex secular versus religious issues involved in the region, and the resulting Jerusalem problematic which has caused me to label the real issues a tr...