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Suraya Dadoo

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Suraya Dadoo

Suraya Dadoo is a freelance writer based in Johannesburg.

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Calling it a ‘conflict’ helps to sustain Israel’s occupation of Palestine

Because Israel is an occupying nation, Israeli violence and Palestinian resistance should not be portrayed as equivalent

After two decades reporting from front lines I’ve learned that truth in conflict is rarely clean. Photo: Said Khatib/AFP

Israel’s war on the truth

The government’s spokesperson has posted tweets and videos that have nothing to do with the current conflict with Palestinians

Palestinian and peace activist demonstrators are hosed by a water cannon during a protest against Israel’s controversial barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin. (Reuters/Gil Cohen Magen)

US ‘brokered’ agreements on Israel: Wind of change or toxic blast of extortion?

The United States is negotiating with African countries that will see them exchange Palestinian people’s rights for improved economic and trade conditions

(David Harrison/ M&G)

Jo’burg festival shines literary light on the youth 

Although book festivals are generally perceived as adult events, this one is family-centred and includes specific programmes for children.

Peace in resistance: The Israeli barrier which separates the Palestinian West Bank village of Eizariya (foreground) and Jerusalem (background). (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Gaza protesters keep pushing boundaries

As the first anniversary of the Great Return March approaches, Suraya Dadoo spoke to Ahmed Abu Artema, the man behind the weekly protests

Photo: File

Withdrawal of academics from conference shines spotlight on boycott of Israel

Israeli academics’ silence in response equates to complicity in the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and life

Houthi rebels inspect the damage after an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition hit the presidential palace in Yemen in 2017. Devastation is wrought in Yemen by the coalition with some of the munitions supplied by South Africa. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Yemenis’ blood is on SA’s hands

Despite the evidence of Denel’s missiles being used, the country is still fawning over its Saudi benefactors

Search for unity: Hamas’s new manifesto reflects fundamental shifts in the movement’s principles and policies. In the photograph

New manifesto: Hamas softens stance on Israel

Could this be the beginning of a Palestinian Congress of the People?

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Reuters)

Israel is an apartheid state. Dump the report, says UN

Five decades later, and the UN’s powerful Western nations are, again, protecting an apartheid regime.

Hamas committed to a just solution

The Palestinian group says it is the occupation, not Jews or Judaism, that is the problem.

Human rights activist Bassem Eid says Palestinian struggle icon Leila Khaled has ‘no idea about her own people’.

Israeli Apartheid Week: For and against

Israel’s domination of Palestinians fits the apartheid bill, writes Suraya Dadoo. Activist Bassem Eid presents a counter-narrative to Michael Coetzee.