Dear Die Antwoord, The recent letter from the Dagga Party and BDS refers. There was a time when the solidarity campaign with Palestine tolerated secular Jews such as myself, who do not ascribe affiliation to any particular branch of Judaism as such. Over the years, as the campaign has grown, we h...

FOR years the tragic conflict between those who want Israel to be replaced by an Arab state from the Jordan to the sea; those who want a greater Israel to include the ancient sites of Judea and Samaria; those who demand that Israel retreat to the 1967 borders (which could mean giving up Jerusalem...

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...

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...

[Yet another unpublished letter to the Cape Times. DRL] Dear Ed, Cape Times Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Letter to the Editor refers. Terry Crawford-Brown's latest apoplexy regarding Arab Jews living in Israel is insightful. The least of which is the lengths to which Anti-Semitic bigots will go in...

Total land "occupied" by the state of Israel: 20 700 Km/sq, Total Jewish land confiscated by Arabs 100 000 Km/sq, Total Arab land abandoned and/or confiscated by Israel 16324. omino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/61201e86bc8189f485256102005a8eab?OpenDocument