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Palestine: Is 1 100 days not enough?
Marking 1 100 days of the devastating war on Gaza, activist Sunny Morgan reflects on 78 years of Palestinian dispossession, the failure of international law, and the global…
Palestinian minister briefs Arab diplomats in Pretoria
Palestinian Minister Sami Hajjawi has briefed the Arab Ambassadors’ Council in Pretoria on forced displacement, starvation, and conditions under Israeli occupation.
The photographs that connect two histories of displacement
Veteran photographer Jimi Matthews pairs his archive of apartheid-era forced removals in District Six with intimate portraits of daily life and resilience in Palestine in a…
Galloway hails SA’s ‘second age of greatness’
Former British MP George Galloway has described South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel as a “second age” of greatness, praising the country's leadership in advocating…
Why Palestine has always mattered to Africa
An examination of how African governments, liberation movements and civil society have responded to the Palestinian struggle, tracing solidarity from the 1940s to Israel's war on…
Arduous road to a liberated Palestine
Examining the Palestinian struggle through the longue durée reveals how enduring resistance, sumud, and South–South solidarity challenge global imperialism and illuminate the…
Gaza and the ghosts of African internationalism
A new anthology, 'Rising for Palestine', co-edited by Suraya Dadoo and Raouf Farrah, argues that the war in Gaza has exposed the erosion of Africa's tradition of…
The number one health issue in Palestine is the Israeli occupation
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, International President of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), highlights how Israel's actions since October 2023 have systematically eroded Palestinians'…
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…
Oscar-nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab comes to SA cinemas
The internationally recognised film reconstructs the final hours of Palestinian child Hind Rajab in Gaza, will screen in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town this May
We stand with Cuba, our friend
The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…
Lack of principled African leadership, action in Sudan
What began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the leaders of the SAF and RSF has evolved into widespread abuses, generating the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with…
Dangers of killing peacekeepers
Each unaddressed attack undermines the UN’s legitimacy and reinforces perceptions of impotence
Legalising murder: Israel’s shift from control to elimination
Israel has passed a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, codifying practices previously carried out extrajudicially. With conviction rates in military courts…
Iran war and Greater Israel Project
The US-Israel war on Iran is disrupting oil trade, pushing up petrol prices and raising concerns over the growing use of religion to justify war