THIS past week has been quite a storm of racist invective aimed at Jews in general, and Israel in particular. It appears an Anglican girls tennis team had refused to play King David in Linksfield, due to the Jewish school's association with Zionism (too many Stars of David?), and following repres...

BEYOND the Loony Toon Hate Parade, will a movement to defend the world against militant theocrats and odious Jew-haters emerge? Those who are quick to label any defense of secularism in the Middle East (or at home) as an 'illiberal plot' against the very progressive values they claim to hold so d...

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...