Reaching out from the Global South
NEWS about a film called Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America has been circulating on social media under the banner of a “banned” documentary. The framing is wrong, and it matters that it is wrong. The facts are modest. The Film and Publicati...
IN March 2025, Somali-born writer and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali sat down with South African human rights lawyer Mark Oppenheimer for an episode of her podcast titled “South Africa in Decline.” The conversation, later uploaded to YouTube, ranged across farm murders, the new Expropriation Act, racia...
NAVI PILLAY is so brazen about her deception in which she airbrushes out the hostages, erroneously accuses Israel of starting a war on 7/10 with a conclusion of genocide, that we're literally having to pinch ourselves. In what alternate universe does one get awarded a Nobel Prize for issuing cant...
RODNEY Plett's statement today settles what happened outside a Norwood synagogue on Yom Kippur: he swore at Abdur Rahamaan Aziz and made remarks invoking Israel and Muslims that he now calls "hurtful and wrong." That much, the footage and statement agree on. What's being built on top of that admi...
NELSON MANDELA’S most-quoted line on Palestine travels the world redacted and stripped of company: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” It appears on murals and banners as though it were the whole of his position. It was delivered on 4 Decembe...
A PIECE by Hassan Lorgat published by IOL mischaracterises two cases involving UCT professor Adam Mendelsohn. In the first instance, he takes issue with Tali Feinberg's article in Jewish Report on Mendelsohn v Choritz, in the second he condones Megan Choritz's crude criticism of the Mendelsohn le...