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David Saks

David Saks is associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Over the years, he has written extensively on aspects of South African history, Judaism and the Middle East for local and international newspapers and journals.

It is not okay when Jewish students who express support for Israel are slapped, spat at or receive threatening phone calls; the university should address this. (Wikipedia)

It does no good to deny antisemitism exists at UCT

It is not okay when Jewish students who express support for Israel are slapped, spat at or receive threatening phone calls; the university should address this

Liliesleaf Farm In Rivonia,South Africa, Architect Johannesburg, Liliesleaf Farm In Rivonia, Jhb, South Africa. . (Photo by View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

OPINION| Liliesleaf Farm is a vital part of South Africa’s history that needs to be preserved

The secret headquarters of the anti-apartheid struggle and the events that took place there in the early 1960s hold stories well worth sharing

Guided: Ultra-Orthodox men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Their Almighty tempers strict justice with mercy. Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP

G-d wags His finger a lot but still gives us hope

Judaism holds that people determine their own destinies but that G-d is ultimately in control and everything will come right in the end

Photo: File

Boycott of Israeli varsities is counter to academic freedom

‘Open letter’ reveals the Orwellian depths to which the radical anti-Israel lobby is willing to descend in order to stand reality on its head

Fire engulfs Noordhoek

‘Mousa Abu Marzouq’s article encapsulates the self-defeating culture of denialism’

Such an ideology allows for no wiggle room, no compromise, no taking into account of the claims of the other side.

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas unveiled on May 1 a new policy document easing its stance on Israel after having long called for its destruction

Hamas’s new manifesto shows it still wants a one-state Palestine solution

The organisation’s new charter suggests only that a two-state proposal is an interim step to a final solution.

Equal: Ethiopian Israelis demand that the government keeps its promise to bring their families from Ethiopia. Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP

Israel’s not an apartheid state – it welcomes people of all hues

A core aspect of the inherent dishonesty of the BDS approach is in the way it persists in depicting one party to the conflict as innocent.

MuseumAfrica.

A rich history archive has been left to rot

Neglected MuseumAfrica has a treasure trove of collections that have been consigned to mothballs

Occupation: Hamas doesn’t just want the West Bank and Gaza

ANC naive to trust Hamas’s advances

"Actually, Gaza is occupied, not by Israel but by a tyrannical Islamist regime that ruthlessly imposes its will on a captive, voiceless population."

An Israeli woman protests against xenophobia in Hatikva

Nothing particularly Israeli about xenophobia

No society is perfect and it is valid to criticise a country for actions that contravene the principles of basic human rights.

Israeli Jews pray in the Tombs of the Patriarchs

Misrepresenting the SA Jewish past

Associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies David Saks weighs in on Kevin Bloom’s views on the mentality around Israel.

Deadly missiles are the reality Asmal ignores

Israel’s enemies have a strategy of provoking confrontation and then playing the victim, argues <b>David Saks</b>.