The anointed, self-appointed, savior of the 'white race', Pieter Kriel, whose past gesticulations on issues to do with Afrikanerdom (involving ritual cleansing of his ancestors guilt), provided him with a pulpit, has now chosen to target black Jews and African Zionists. In the process Kriel displ...

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...

ON JUNE 1–2, 1941, as British forces momentarily withdrew from Baghdad, a mob unleashed a systematic slaughter of the city's ancient Jewish community. Nearly 180 Jews were killed, hundreds more wounded, and thousands of homes and businesses were looted and destroyed. The Farhud — Arabic for "viol...

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...

SOME TIME AGO I arrived late at a panel discussion on Israel and Palestine hosted by one Terry Crawford-Brown. Readers my remember the Irish banker and former spokesperson for the Anglican Church, whose credibility was left in tatters after he attempted to pin the blame for Chris Hani's assassina...