THE dejudaisation of the South African struggle proceeds apace. In order to accommodate the solidarity campaign around the return of Greater Palestine to the Ottomans, the freedom struggle is being revised. No Jews participated in the struggle. We do not exist and our views do not count. Unless w...
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Israel - Page 13
Toy Wars: The Reggies Boycott
THERE are a number of things which need to be said in regard to the recent action against Reggies, a Jewish-owned business operating in South Africa. Firstly it would appear that children are now being used as political pawns in a war being conducted by adults. Secondly, a boycott of Jewish Toys...
South Africa, J’Accuse
ON JANUARY 13, 1898 the newspaper L'Aurore published a letter by the writer Emile Zola. Addressed to the French president, it accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus a French Army General Staff officer sentenced to penal servitude for life for espionage....
Is Israel Apartheid a too simplistic analogy?
The Apartheid analogy is useful in describing what is occurring in Israel today. One cannot remain silent when pictures of Arab children massacred by the IDF find historical resonance in similar pictures taken during our own struggle. The tragic portrait of Hector Peterson is but one example. Unf...
DIY Middle East Peace Plan
This is my current Middle East Peace Plan. Show me yours? FLAGS Flag One Flag Two MAPS SEE http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/israel-is-a-three-state-solution-possible/
German Jewish flotilla to protest seige of Gaza.
The German-Jewish organization Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East is preparing a Jewish flotilla to the Gaza Strip. "We intend to leave around July," a member of the organization, Kate Leitrer, said to Israeli press agency Ynet. "We have one small craft so far, in which there will be betwe...
