I ENCOURAGE readers to condemn Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) for targeting businesses merely because some directors happen to be Jewish. There are no 'Cape Union Mart' branches, as its name implies, within Israel, and no connection other than some directors happen to be Jewish. PSG have fai...

THIS MONTH'S Nakba Day commemorations — marking 78 years since the displacement of Palestinians during Israel's 1948 War of Independence — were supposed to be occasions for solemn remembrance. Instead, they produced two embarrassing episodes that, taken together, illustrate something more signifi...

IT WASN'T just the US Civil Rights movement and its leaders like Jesse Jackson who supported the anti-apartheid struggle. The truth is, hundreds of ordinary Americans, sent money, literature and goodwill to the movement within our country. Watching President Ramaphosa address the Jackson funeral...

Dear Leslie, I respond to your recent opinion piece in the Daily Maverick. During the landmark People's Health Assembly at UWC in 2011, I was struck by the words of the late Prof Emeritus David Saunders, during his opening address, ( in which he wore the Iraqi Keffiyeh associated with Palestinian...

NO SOONER had the principal of the posh girls school, Roedean resigned, following a debacle over tennis, where the school at first refused to play Jewish scholars at King David, "because they were Jewish", then issued a series of communiques before resorting to an embarrassing apology, persons su...