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Former international relations minister Naledi Pandor said without confronting material complicity, the initiative risked becoming “pleasant, but ineffectual”. Photo: Hasina Kathrada

At Hague Group meeting, frustration over failure of global institutions to constrain Israel’s conduct

Speakers described a system in which legal norms are applied selectively, allowing powerful states and their allies to evade accountability

Too controversial, won’t see: TLDR (2017) actors (top) Tenderlove, Duduzile Dlamini, Regina High, Jenny and Zoe Black, and (above) Gabbi, Emmah, Jowi, Connie and Nosipho ‘Provocative’ Vidima appear in the video installation by Candice Breitz (right), which has summarily been cancelled in Germany. Image stills: Goodman Gallery. Photo: Till Cremer

The complex art of the kibosh

South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped

Outgoing chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.

Mogoeng’s Palestine stance calls into question his role at the ConCourt

We can only conclude that he ‘willingly and knowingly lent his personal credibility — and that of his office — to a white-washing of Israeli crimes’

(Reuters)

Trump pays in messiah money

The Trump coin, at least, echoes another element of the BIN story about the Pilgrim’s Road. It mentions some coins found during the excavations

False: Israeli soldiers pray near the Gaza Strip. The author says Israel does not represent South African Jews and rejects the analogy between the Palestinian and apartheid struggles.  (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Letters to the editor: April 12-18

Our reader writes about BDS this week

The BDS committee was formed in 2005 and has the support of more than 170 organisations in Palestine. (AFP)

Supporting BDS is a way to honour the Palestinian struggle

Boycotts and sanctions against Israel are a vote for nonviolence, democracy and self-determination

Seemingly more decent and trustworthy politicians like Trudeau are in fact more dangerous to a decent human life on earth than obnoxious loud mouths like Trump or Netanyahu. (Reuters)

The discreet sham of Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau is just as bad for humanity as Donald Trump is

Horrifying as they were, the events of 7 October were the latest twist in a violent cycle triggered  in the distant past

South Africa must stand up to Israeli apartheid

There is no system of oppression more fully documented – in UN reports and studies by human rights groups – than Israel’s crimes.

Take down: Ex-railway boss Lucky Montana made like Scarface’s Tony Montana at the parliamentary hearings

Radiohead in Israel: A fig leaf for apartheid

British rock band’s decision to play in Tel Aviv has inadvertently demonstrated just why the BDS movement makes sense.

South Africans withdraw from genocide conference in Israel

Palestine welcomes the decision by prominent academic and human rights group not to attend international meeting.

Pharrell Williams: In tune but not with protesters

Singing hits from his over two-decade-long career, US star Pharrell Williams’s shows in Jo’burg and the Cape wowed crowds and caused controversy.