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Calls to boycott Dis-Chem are intensifying after major shareholder Mark Saltzman attacked journalist Redi Tlhabi over Gaza on social media.

Gaza, philanthropy and power: Dis-Chem drawn into online political storm

Calls to boycott Dis-Chem are intensifying after major shareholder Mark Saltzman attacked journalist Redi Tlhabi over Gaza on social media. The confrontation has sparked wider…

Hallowed halls: Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo: Andrew Price

Not in ritual; but restriction

As Easter approaches, access to Jerusalem’s holy sites reveals the politics of occupation, not a clash of faiths

Zionism blends Jewish trauma with settler-colonial power, creating a narcissistic identity that justifies supremacy and erases Palestinian existence

Zionism, trauma and the psychology of supremacy

Zionism blends Jewish trauma with settler-colonial power, creating a narcissistic identity that justifies supremacy and erases Palestinian existence.

Under the pretext of ‘self-defence’, Israel has systematically devastated Gaza: nearly 63,000 Palestinians killed, including more than 18,500 children; 2200 entire families erased; and civilian infrastructure reduced to rubble, and starvation. Photo: AP (March 2021)

Zionism’s modern atrocities echo the horrors of Nazism

The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians

The pathological hatred Trump inspires on the left and the quasi-religious devotion he commands on the right reflect tensions within American democratic culture. File Photo

Selective outrage: Can Zionists be challenged for being anti-Semitic?

The New York Times seems to believe Islamophobia cancels out anti-Semitism as it downplays Trump’s remarks and publishes a racist piece

Israel and Iran are rival expressions of authoritarian impulses.

Middle East’s masked hegemonies: Tyrants wrestle in the name of salvation

A secular, post-colonial future is the only viable alternative to Israel’s colonial Zionism versus Iran’s theocratic rule

Artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s work Rage is a Machine in Times of Senselessness, which appeared on this year’s Venice Biennale

Artists’ blitzkrieg: Criminalised, cancelled, fired, censored

Right-wing German journalists have been snitching on pro-Palestine artists, academics and curators for ‘anti-Semitism’

Futile: Palestinians live among the wreck and rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images

Secret alliance: Israel and apartheid South Africa’s nuclear collaboration

With both countries intent on keeping in check the ‘barbarians at the gate’, South Africa used its uranium reserves and Israeli technical support to develop its nuclear programme

The conflict between India and Pakistan goes back to Partition in 1947. Conflict has flared up regularly in Kashmir since then including in 2019 (above) and now in 2025. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Kashmir’s ‘Black Day’ a reminder that the freedom struggle continues

The people of Kashmir and Palestine have suffered oppression for many decades, both starting with the British and then by India and Israel, respectively

Protest: Jews for a Free Palestine demonstrate in support of Gaza in Cape Town shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s counter-attack. Photo: Rodger Bosch/AFP

Is Zionism growing in South Africa?

Some say support for Zionism is growing and equate criticism of Israel as antisemitic, while others say their religion doesn’t mean they support Tel Aviv

A protester carries a placard during a gathering by relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants, in front of the Defence Ministry in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on March 30, 2024.  (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Those who hold the values of humanity and the rule of law should reject the Hamas narrative

Spreading the Hamas narrative because of the reactive need to attach to a struggle is akin to becoming the propaganda arm of a recognised terrorist network

Critical: British author Zadie Smith is guilty of ignorance, cynicism and racism in her essay titled Shibboleth, which appeared in The New Yorker this month, the writer says. Photo: David Levenson/Getty Images

Author’s views on student activism are sloppy and ignorant

In its apparent nothingness, Zadie Smith’s essay on student activism tells us about how genocide can be rationalised, writes Steve Salaita

An  Israeli soldier sits on a tank before entering into the Gaza Strip on April 10, 2024 in Southern Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

What it means to be a Jewish anti-Zionist in an anti-Semitic world

The national liberation ideology of Zionism is not a problem. Its colonist, racist premise of exclusivity and the eradication or subjugation of the Palestinian populations is

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Everybody wants white privilege

History teaches us the dangers of one group of people claiming moral authority over the rights of another and Israel should take note

Carrying the can: A Palestinian woman fills her containers with water in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, this week. Israel has been controlling Palestinians’ access to water for decades. Photo: Said Khatib/Getty Images

Water is used as a weapon against Palestinian people

Israel regularly restricts, controls and blocks access to water, and chops down vital olive trees

‘CONNECTING with the outside world’. Coffee Bay, 2000. Photo: Sethembiso Zulu

The Portfolio: Sethembiso Zulu

My photographs make for detailed stories and use symbols that are meant to be read and analysed with an open mind.

The UCT senate’s call to cut ties, not with Israeli Jews, but with complicit Israeli universities that have already enshrined discrimination into their mode of being is nothing but a defence of academic freedom.

Jewish resistance to Zionism is on the right side of history

Confining people in effective Bantustans forces us to see Israel for what it is: a European project of domination

Steven Salaita (John McCann/M&G)

UCT stuck on academic freedom

A lecture delivered by an academic who challenged the logic of anti-Semitism claims has opened old wounds

Given that the Middle East conflict dominates world agenda

‘Shoot the Jew’ exposes real agenda

Israel: Opposing lobby groups vie for public and government support as anti-Zionist protests reveal anti-Semitism.

Israel and Iran are rival expressions of authoritarian impulses.

And why shouldn’t there be an SA Zionist lobby?

A small, economically powerful Jewish minority has a perfect right to try its hand at some arm-twisting.