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 depr...
Tag: Zionism
Palestine Solidarity targets South African Jews for being Jews
ON SUNDAY Heinz Winckler, a local Pastor, posted images of what appears to be a Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) demonstration outside Cape Union Mart, in Canal Walk, Cape Town. The demonstrators can be seen holding Pan Arab flags (common to Jordan, Palestine, Western Sahara), and placards cla...
Quo Vadis: Whither South Africa’s religious freedom?
SOUTH AFRICA has a troubled history of religious freedom going back to the Protestant Reformation and the plight of Huguenot refugees fleeing religious persecution under Catholic France. ‘God Is Not a Christian’ claimed the late Desmond Tutu, who also said: “When the missionaries came to Africa t...
Dear Steven Friedman
Dear Steven Friedman, I understand you have become somewhat of an expert on Jewish identity? Since the decision by the SCA overturning a decision by the Equality Court, you are now able to tell a Theist from a Non-Theist, and a Zionist from a Non-Zionist, simply by looking at the other person? Th...
SRC politics and BDS extremists
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...
The Israel debate in South Africa
Controversial article by Peter Beinart published in the Daily Beast claims there is no significant Reform movement in South Africa, that all South Africa's Jews are Zionists:- "South Africa is America on steroids. It’s even more sports-obsessed. It’s even more violent. Its state-sponsored racism...