Global security has deteriorated markedly, just as countries need to be able to count on one another to avoid a deeper crisis
The country’s case at the World Court exposes Israel’s apartheid actions of creeping dispossession of land, segregation and discrimination, as well as military actions to destroy Palestinians and slow deaths through starvation
It also provides opportunities to learn and to advance the profession
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel.
Lawyers representing Israel at the International Court of Justice will table their arguments in day 2 of the proceedings.
Israel’s prime minister has used religious rhetoric referring to the country’s Biblical historical enemy to incite troops to war, South Africa’s legal team told the court
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana noted that South Africa’s position on Israel’s occupation of Palestine has always been clear
South Africa told the International Court of Justice that Israel is deliberately trying to destroy the Palestinian people living in Gaza
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel. SA makes their argument today.
In a crisis-hit world, attacks on newsrooms and media workers leave us worse off
The state is standing up on principle knowing full well that there will be intense international and domestic pressure to fall into line
Pop star George Michael articulated best the dangers of removing idealism from politics
Amid Israel’s increasingly unhinged siege of the enclave, Drew Forrest probes the country’s claim that it is fighting a war against terror
Washington has twice exercised its veto at the United Nations Security Council over ceasefire calls, drawing outrage in the Arab world
The matter will be heard on Thursday and Friday next week
Turkey and Malaysia have already backed the application, which the US has deemed ‘meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever’
Heavy bombardment, and a ground invasion launched three weeks into the war, have reduced vast areas of Gaza to a ruined wasteland and killed at least 21,822 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry
South Africa opens genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice
Israeli forces heavily bombed the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday as the centre of fierce combat moves steadily south where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering
‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war
This marks as a win for the US who didn’t have to use its veto again
South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped
Amid tragedy, we must consider the oneness of humanity
The Middle Eastern country needs its workers to stay in the army, but
it also needs to keep its economy going
One cannot stand for climate justice but remain silent while Palestine suffers injustice daily
The furor around the Proteas under-19 captain’s remarks about Israel is not a simple question of free speech
A Joburg band has written lyrics based on poems by friends who are suffering in Palestine
Policymakers should recognise the inherent impossibility of eradicating a resilient, locally rooted resistance movement
Our social media feeds are as key a field as any for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Attention has turned to whether the truce will be extended before its scheduled end early on Tuesday morning
But the Economic Freedom Fighters leader and five other fighters will still have to watch the State of the Nation address on the big screen
It should be the day of ANC’s reckoning, but opposition parties such as the Democratic Alliance should polish up their messaging on Israel’s war in Gaza
Beware that when you dehumanise your opponent, you dehumanise yourself