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Protesters waving Palestinian flags and posters opposite the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on Tuesday to mark International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide. Photo: Matthew Hirsch

Protesters demand that Cape Town holocaust centre recognise genocide in Gaza

The vigil also marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

We need a rational discussion about the liberal right

Our public sphere is not well served by people flinging chunks of dogma around

Children’s book on Palestine gets blowback

The colouring book, designed to be both educational and engaging for children, aims to introduce young readers to Palestine’s history, culture and notable figures through an…

Israeli police look on as Muslim Palestinians take part in Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ras al-Amud, on October 20, 2023, following age restrictions by Israeli police to above 50-year-olds to worshippers wanting to access the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa to attend Cairo summit on Israel-Hamas war

The presidency reiterated that South Africa is ready to help negotiate a lasting peace settlement in the Middle East

A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, after the recent cross-border war between Israel and Hamas. (Photograph by Fatima Shbair/ Getty Images)

Palestine could be taking a South African direction

The signs are there that the Israeli state may have ‘won’ the most recent battle against Palestinians but could be losing the protracted war, especially in the court of public…

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

Separating fact from fiction: A rabbi inspects the damage inside a torched religious school in the central Israeli city of Lod, near Tel Aviv, last week, following night clashes between Arab Israelis and Israeli Jews
amid a dramatic escalation of conflict between Palestine and Israel. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Media coverage fails to provide the facts

While the conflict between Israel and Palestinians rages on the real battle is for public opinion

GAZA CITY, GAZA – MAY 17: A man walks past a damaged apartment after Israeli warplanes strike headquarters of the Qatari Red Crescent Society in al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on May 17, 2021. Since May 10, the Israeli army has launched incessant attacks on Gaza killing at least 200 Palestinians, including 59 children and 35 women, and injuring 1,305 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel-Palestine: It’s a myth that there are two equal sides in this conflict

SA BDS Coalition calls for the world to listen to what Israel’s actions are saying and apply full sanctions against that apartheid state

The Ukraine conflict shows how effective sanctions can be, but they should be applied wherever imperialism is present. (Photograph by Mostafa Alkharouf/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa’s letter on the Palestine-Israel conflict

The president addresses the recent violence in Palestine

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’

(Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Mogoeng on Israel: Bad faith and ‘impunified disregard’ for international law?

The chief justice needs to publicly account for his comments, by either walking them back or explaining his change of heart on international law and its institutions

(Mohamad Torokman)

‘No one cares’: Palestine’s pain persists, 50 years on

In the ‘jubilee year’ of the Israeli occupation, the world must refocus its attention on this human rights outrage

Israeli soldiers sit near part of Israel’s controversial barrier as a Palestinian walks towards Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

​Liberate Palestine, bring down the walls of Israel

Palestine is a series of islands in a sea of Israel — a repressive state that uses force to curtail freedom.

A Palestinian girl dons goggles and a set of wings for Nakba Day.

US sentiment shifts regarding Israel-Palestine conflict

Two-thirds of Americans want the government to end its traditional bias in favour of Israel and young Israelis want occupation and subjugation to end.

Feel-good tales and harrowing attempts at balance give insights into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Tales that give insights into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The complicated Arab-Israeli situation is hard to write about but makes for fascinating if often harrowing reading.

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."

Hamas committed to a just solution

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

Give peace a chance: Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has written from prison about the Israel/Palestine violence.

World must deal with root causes of Palestinian/Israeli conflict

Jailed Palestinian leader calls on international community to tackle root cause of violence between Palestinians and Israelis.

Jerusalem on the brink of civil war

Both Jews and Arabs have been seized by fear, and a call to arms has heightened tensions.

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’.