THIS past week has been quite a storm of racist invective aimed at Jews in general, and Israel in particular. It appears an Anglican girls tennis team had refused to play King David in Linksfield, due to the Jewish school's association with Zionism (too many Stars of David?), and following repres...

THE MENDELSOHN review application against two UCT Council resolutions is taking place in the Western Cape High Court. It presents important challenges to a debate on rival definitions of antisemitism, academic freedom and the right to dissent under the current constitution. The basis for the chal...

THE FIRST batch of Video and Photographic documentation surrounding the Operation Al Aqsa Flood event has been placed online. In a tweet by documentary film-maker Pierre Rehov. says: If you live outside of Israel and you still believe that October 7 was just another terror attack, think twice. Yo...

FOR some it was merely a ‘gaffe’, an awkward ‘statement that many regard as anti-Israel’, for others it was a ‘river too far’, a red line in the sand marked Antisemitism. In many countries such as the UK and Germany, the phrase ‘from the River to the Sea’, is banned outright due to its falling […]

​THERE is officially 'no antisemitism' in South Africa. No sooner had Justice Minister Ronald Lamola kicked up a storm after making bizarre statements on a BBC hardtalk interview, the country was being entertained by two incidents from inside the country's various legislatures. A tie-episode invo...