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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

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

Mogoeng Mogoeng’s new party, the All African Alliance Movement is following the script with a crudely xenophobic orientation.
(Madelene Cronjé)

Fight over chief justice’s Israel comments grows

Last year South Africa closed its embassy in Jerusalem and Africa For Palestine alleged in its complaint that Mogoeng “expressed, or at least unambiguously implied” that this…

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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu. (AFP)

Netanyahu claims Israel election win despite corruption charges

Monday’s election left the veteran right-winger in prime position to form a government and end a year of political deadlock, after similar votes in April and September proved…

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

For Jews

For justice: SA Jews support the academic boycott of Israeli universities

As South African Jews, we cannot sit by idly while the Israeli government commits similar atrocities to the former South African apartheid regime

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

‘Privileged Jew’ fights for Palestinian rights inside Israel

“The whole of the Israeli economy is based on profiting from the oppression of Palestinians”

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.

Palestinian and Israeli violence is seeing civilians stabbing one another in Jerusalem’s Old City

This unrest evokes a third intifada

Violence is escalating in Israel and Palestine but no one is sure whether this is another uprising.

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’.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter.

Israel’s ‘apartheid’ bus plan stops

A three-month pilot scheme would have imposed strict new controls on thousands of Palestinians with permits to work in Israel,

(Reuters)

US blasts ICC war crimes probe of Israel as ‘tragic irony’

The US has criticised the ICC’s preliminary probe into war crimes allegedly committed by Israel in Gaza as "counterproductive to the cause of peace".

Government’s investor a major shareholder in Woolworths

A source in the Public Investment Corporation, a shareholder in Woolworths, says the company invests money from the Government Employees Pension Fund.

An article in the South African Jewish report accused Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of “preying” on Israel

United front against occupation

The legacy of the United Democratic Front in South Africa might serve as potential model for thinking about forms of Jewish-Palestinian solidarity.

The truth about false balance

The Ombud speaks out on when the journalistic ideal of fairness is co-opted.

Media stoke up anger against Israel

Was the SA media coverage of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza unbalanced and riddled with blindly reported inaccuracies?