Reaching out from the Global South
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 befor...
FOR DECADES South Africans from across the political spectrum paid lip-service to the so-called 'two-state solution' in the Middle East. Pandering to universal notions of human rights, racial equality and justice for all. Following the passing of our nation's founder, Nelson Mandela, whose ideal...
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...
IN 2011 at the People's Health Assembly I asked a delegation of Palestinian doctors whether or not, a binational state solution like Belgium, in which the Flemish and Walloons coexist under a unitary constitution, could be a possible solution to the problem. Their answer, like so many answers I r...
LAST week a weighty tome released by the controversial UN Human Rights Council arrived on my desk. The council you may recall, is controversial for its appointment of Ali Bahreini, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to chair its 2023 social forum. The report: "Legal analysis of the conduc...
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...