TWO incidents involving campus politics in South Africa need some explanation. The first involved the Durban University of Technology (DUT). Last week its SRC chair was calling for all Jews to be deregistered and in particular, those Jews who support Israel. This week, the SRC was issuing a retra...
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Israel - Page 10
Pig Wars, Woolworths, BDS
FIRST there were the fatwas and pronouncements by Islamic scholars on the status of Woolworths in the global BDS movement. Then well-heeled young Muslim students staged a bizarre flash-mob event, consisting of coordinated dance and movement while shouting Pro-Palestinian slogans. Then the combine...
Why I am not joining the March for Gaza
WHEN I joined the struggle against the apartheid regime there was never any doubt in my mind that the armed struggle was a just struggle against an oppressive state. Not only was there a Freedom Charter guaranteeing human rights for all, but our demands and that of the demands of our leaders such...
Nelson Mandela on Israel
Peter Hain’s one-state solution
BRITISH Labour MP and former cabinet minister Peter Hain says a one-state solution could "more easily resolve the deadlock than the two-state solution I and many others have long favoured". In an article published by New Statesman, Hain says the establishment of a binational state with equal righ...
“Ariel Sharon, Apartheid South Africa and mutual military interests” published 22/01/2014 refers”
This is a letter penned in response to a Daily Maverick piece. Needless to say it is unlikely to get published by the online daily due to editorial restrictions on the Palestine-Israel debate. DRL Dear Ed, "Ariel Sharon, Apartheid South Africa and mutual military interests" published 22/01/2014 r...
