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Items by Dr Firoz Osman
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Nakba Day is when Palestinians remember the catastrophe of their land being stolen
On 15 May, 1948, the creation of the state of Israel was announced in Tel Aviv. That day is commemorated every year as Nakba Day by the people of occupied Palestine. The “Catastrophe” to which Nakba refers is that in order to create the state, almost 800,000 Palestinians were...
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Palestine’s heroic resistance signals the failure of Zionism
The heroic resistance by Palestinian youth at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is a clear affirmation of the failure of the Zionist project to colonise the land of Palestine and empty it of its indigenous people. The Polish-born first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, stated in 1948: “We must...
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Apartheid land theft is an explosive issue in South Africa and Palestine
Apartheid land theft is an explosive issue as manifested in South Africa’s “expropriation without compensation” debate and Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza as they marched peacefully in protest at the unending usurpation of their territory. The expropriation and forced removal of the indigenous people from their land by...
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Palestinians are facing genocide; Israel deserves its international pariah status
Zionist fulminations against the evocative A-word will now have to contend with the ignoble G-word. That Israel is an Apartheid entity is now indisputable, with international institutions and academics declaring it to be a crime against humanity. To this must now be added the increasingly obvious fact that the...
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Israeli Apartheid Week draws attention to African and Palestinian Refugees
As Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) reaches South African shores on 12 March, in the wake of similar programmes in 250 cities around the globe, the iniquitous racist Israeli system that has poisoned Palestinians for 70 years has now afflicted African refugees as well. Thousands, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea,...
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US recognition a major step for the Zionist Project
US President Donald Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel is another major step forward for the Zionists since the Balfour Declaration, when the British created Israel from the rib of terrorism. A primary objective of the Zionist Project that emanated from Europe was to occupy and...
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Photo essay of Israel not innocent
"Chernick's images are divorced from reality, with perhaps the exception of the poignant photo of the black Ethiopian beggar on the restaurant sidewalk"...
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Entrapment on terror charges
The sensational headlines following the arrests of Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie, as well as Ebrahim and Fatima Patel, in Johannesburg and the West Rand, have dominated the South African media over the past few weeks. The #TerrorArrests, as they have been dubbed on social media, came a month after...
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Islamic State or deviant cult?
The phenomenon of “Islamic State” (Daesh) has surfaced once again following sensational the media reporting of the arrest of four South African Muslims under their country’s anti-terror laws; there is an obvious attempts to instil a climate of fear in our communities. Just as Al-Qaeda was used to scare...