I ENCOURAGE readers to condemn Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) for targeting businesses merely because some directors happen to be Jewish. There are no 'Cape Union Mart' branches, as its name implies, within Israel, and no connection other than some directors happen to be Jewish. PSG have fai...

THIS MONTH'S Nakba Day commemorations — marking 78 years since the displacement of Palestinians during Israel's 1948 War of Independence — were supposed to be occasions for solemn remembrance. Instead, they produced two embarrassing episodes that, taken together, illustrate something more signifi...

SOME TIME AGO I arrived late at a panel discussion on Israel and Palestine hosted by one Terry Crawford-Brown. Readers my remember the Irish banker and former spokesperson for the Anglican Church, whose credibility was left in tatters after he attempted to pin the blame for Chris Hani's assassina...

UNLIKE the majority faith group who are Christians, most Jews experience what I refer to as baseline Anti-Semitism, hostility towards Jewish identity that is so prevalent it is background noise or weather. 7/10 merely emboldened what was already latent within our supposedly tolerant, free societi...

Dear Leslie, I respond to your recent opinion piece in the Daily Maverick. During the landmark People's Health Assembly at UWC in 2011, I was struck by the words of the late Prof Emeritus David Saunders, during his opening address, ( in which he wore the Iraqi Keffiyeh associated with Palestinian...