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Items by Iqbal Jassat
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A tale of two golden jubilees
Renowned Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy wrote in his latest op-ed for the newspaper that, “A state that celebrates 50 years of occupation is a state whose sense of direction has been lost, its ability to distinguish good from evil impaired.” Using typical, hard-hitting honesty, Israeli journalist Levy pulled no punches...
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Israel faces the inevitable collapse of its apartheid system
Israel’s racist right wing regime is turning the heat on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists. Is this any different to the “total onslaught” against freedom struggle activists by the former apartheid government in South Africa? In fact, it is much worse. Daily accounts reveal severe repression whereby Palestinian...
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The media must not be held hostage by the pro-Israel lobby
Has President Jacob Zuma ever considered replacing his official spokesperson with David Saks of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies? Perhaps he should, for the two share an apparent desire to muzzle the media. Zuma has many reasons to do so, and thus avoid media coverage of his corrupt...
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Is South Africa’s ambassador to Israel a victim of state capture?
Israel’s war of terror against the Palestinians and their land is an unrelenting act of aggression and hostility. That it is ongoing after seven decades, and that the brutality is clearly visible across global media, one wonders why its ability to act with such impunity persists. Many reasons have been...
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Passing Palestine's nightmare to Israel
The month of September carries painful memories for Palestinians. It is marked by commemoration activities recalling the horrors of Israel’s brutal and bloody massacres. Without exception, Palestinians as a collective remember those tragic events which robbed them of dear friends and family members. One such was the 1982 massacre at...
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Saudi’s betrayal is about more than getting close to Israel
Toenadering is an Afrikaans term which was used as derisively by the far-right to describe the implied closeness between the former Apartheid government of the National Party and the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC). The aim was to discredit the party’s secret meetings with the ANC during...
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Anti-BDS tactics are doomed to fail
While Israel believes that playing the anti-Semitism card will do the trick, the opposite is true. European activists, academics, journalists and student movements will not be browbeaten into silence....
