Nakba Day invites all of us to think about belonging, about how we treat those who we think do not belong and about the importance of rules in the negotiation of spaces of…
A gregarious man with a mission, a complex personality, hard-nosed politician, he strode from the pulpits of politics to the precipice of the Oval Office, paving the way along…
The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians
The United Nations Security Council needs reform. The US has, since 1946, exercised its veto more than 80 times, many of those to block resolutions critical of Israel
Land is more than a physical resource — it is the foundation of identity, freedom and dignity in places as far-flung as North America, Australia and New Zealand to Gaza, India…
As humanitarian needs soar, provisional measures are needed for the full cessation of hostilities in Gaza.
The country stands firm on the principle that diplomacy is the most viable route for settling differences in a complicated geopolitical world, including the conflict in the…
While Benjamin Netanyahu keeps boasting about having defeated Hamas and gleefully claiming that it is not a threat, his soldiers continue their killing spree under his orders
Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’
The secretary general of the United Nations is committed to peace, yet Israel in its war on Gaza and beyond chose to ban him
The organisation has advanced the Israeli settler project on Palestinian land in the West Bank, and within the Green Line area and Galilee
From Palestinian rock to modern folk, generations of Armenian musicians have thrived in Jerusalem. But Israeli attacks threaten the community’s future
‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war
One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices
Nongovernmental organisations applying for observer status at the African Union are subjected to intense scrutiny but a non-African state merely needs the approval of the AU…
As the first anniversary of the Great Return March approaches, Suraya Dadoo spoke to Ahmed Abu Artema, the man behind the weekly protests
The Jewish identity is being used to make it seem that the maintenance of Jewish culture is inconsistent with the demands of Palestinians as Muslims.
Harping on about anti-Semitism is a distraction from the fact that the Israel crisis is, above all, about the occupation
A rally in Johannesburg drew a crowd of well over 10 000 people from across the country in support of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
A humanitarian truce in Gaza lay in tatters on Saturday amid a new wave of violence, which left 101 Palestinians dead and an Israeli soldier missing.
