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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

Solidarity with Palestine at the World Cup in 2022. File photo: Supplied

Why South Africans must stand with Palestine and why the world must act

South Africans know what it is like to be dehumanised, displaced and silenced and so it is important to support the Palestinians

The authors call for Swimming South Africa to put international justice first and boycott the competition (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

World Aquatics Junior Championships: Don’t swim in apartheid waters

Call for Swimming South Africa to put international justice first and boycott the competition

“Didn’t the world support the boycott of apartheid South Africa?” (Photo by Jonathan C. Katzenellenbogen/Getty Images)

SA sport faces tough questions after Israel rugby debacle

Sport can be a powerful force for good but in the wrong hands it can also be used help normalise hatred

Nationalising the dairy company would save jobs and the Lichtenburg factory, Giwusa said. (Madelene Cronjé)

Union calls on government to nationalise ‘profit-driven’ Clover

The dairy’s Lichtenburg factory, which is being closed due to service delivery issues, employs about 380 permanent and 40 temporary workers

In November 2018, relatives mourn the death of Ahmad Al-Najjar, who died of wounds after the Israeli army intervened in the ‘Great March of Return’ protest at the Gaza border. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/AFP)

Pretoria prevaricates on Israel

Cyril Ramaphosa may have signalled a hardening of tone but, like his predecessors, he is unlikely to break the mould on the Palestine-Israel two-state solution

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

Heads up: Consumer boycotts, such as the Economic Freedom Fighters’ protests outside Clicks stores this week, are as powerful a weapon as they were in the 1980s, and can become as violent. (Photo: Luca Sola/AFP)

Paddy Harper: Anti-racism is the mane thing

What we want: Ramaphosa to cough up a hairball, racists in hair shirts and consumer boycotts that don’t turn hairy

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA – AUGUST 26: A general view of the court after the postponed game five of the first round of the NBA Playoffs between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets at The Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on August 26, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The NBA announced the postponement of today’s games in response to the Milwaukee Bucks boycotting their game in protest against the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin police. (Kim Klement – Pool/Getty Images)
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More than a game: NBA players in wildcat strike to protest racial injustice

In 1961, Bill Russell led his fellow Boston Celtics in refusing to play in an NBA game in protest of systemic racism. It happened again on Wednesday.

In last week’s webinar on global racial tensions hosted by The Jerusalem Post Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng expressed support for the state of Israel guided by his Christian beliefs and biblical texts.  (Madelene Cronjé)

Chief Justice’s views on Israel are guided by religion, not the Constitution

Mogoeng should remember that Israel/Palestine is an apartheid state, in which 90% of the land is reserved for Jewish occupation

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Complex debate on UCT’s Israel boycott

But still no clarity after motions in the senate, council and academic freedom committee

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

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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

The model apologised on Instagram

Shashi Naidoo to visit Palestine on ‘fact-finding mission’

The model received backlash for calling Palestine a ‘shithole’ in a social media post

‘Bigot’: The writer takes issue with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini

Why South Africa’s DJ Black Coffee left a bitter taste by performing in Israel

The DJ’s recent performance in Tel Aviv took place on the same weekend that saw more than a dozen Palestinian protesters killed

Fired up: Demonstrators in Kenya called for the removal of electoral commission officials

Kenya vote chief silent on rebel areas as uncertainty lingers

​Kenya’s election board remained silent Sunday over plans to reschedule a vote in opposition areas, where a boycott sparked violent protests

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.

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

Israel turns up heat on activist group

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is ‘anti-Semitic’ and a ‘first-rate strategic threat’.

The struggle for liberation and land needs you

Palestinians must liberate themselves but, against a powerful enemy, they need any help they can get.