Palestine Israel Conflict
latest news & developmentsIsrael’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
Media coverage fails to provide the facts
While the conflict between Israel and Palestinians rages on the real battle is for public opinion
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
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…
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’
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
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…
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 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
‘Privileged Jew’ fights for Palestinian rights inside Israel
“The whole of the Israeli economy is based on profiting from the oppression of Palestinians”
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.
This unrest evokes a third intifada
Violence is escalating in Israel and Palestine but no one is sure whether this is another uprising.
Israel turns up heat on activist group
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is ‘anti-Semitic’ and a ‘first-rate strategic threat’.
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,