READERS may remember Kanye West, the musician caught in an Anti-Semitic spiral, having gone from Racist bad to Nazi worse in the space of six months. Now IOL claims "Kanye West says he’s ‘moving to South Africa’ to start a new life". Of course, what IOL meant was there were ten Kanye West's under...
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Jozi Mayor Thapelo Amad: ‘No Homos please, we’re Muslims’
WITH the colors of Pan Arabism and the words 'Palestine' written in bold, Johannesburg's new major Thapelo Amad made his inaugural appearance. The politician and imam is a member of the far-right, minority Al Jama-ah (Arabic: الجماعة, lit. 'the Congregation') party, which has found itself with a...
EFF confirm religious dimension to conflict in Israel/Palestine
WITHOUT any hint of irony, a press statement issued by political party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) asserts: "History informs us the Temple Mount /Haram el Sharif is one of the most sensitive sites in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in that 'the hilltop site is the most sacred place in Judai...
DECLASSIFIED: How a controversy over a Palestinian supporter of the Nazi Party exposed a campaign to sugar-coat events in the aftermath of WW2
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHS of Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini touring Trebbin Concentration Camp appeared the images were greeted with disbelief. The 6 previously unknown photos in which the Palestinian leader and self-styled 'grand mufti of Jerusalem', al-Husseini, inspects a Nazi concentration camp a...
Dear Ms Naledi Pandor
Dear Ms Naledi Pandor, Your campaign to exclude the Jewish African Diaspora from the African Union refers. That I live in a country with an egregious history of involvement and support for Hitler's policies of mass extermination of Jews, should not have to be the starting point for a debate in So...
Israel Amnesty Report, an exercise in ellipsis and paradox
THERE is an astonishing contradiction at the heart of the latest Amnesty International Report on Israel, one deserving further analysis. Resolving it, could be the key to unlocking a potential solution. Ignoring it, could mean, business as usual, since the document's omission of history and demog...