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Items by Iqbal Jassat
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Marching orders for Zionist envoy from South Africa strike a blow against anarchists
South Africa’s groundbreaking move to declare the Zionist regime’s envoy “persona non grata” and expel him from the country, has been welcomed by Palestine’s Resistance and solidarity movements. This step is a crucial marker of the Ramaphosa government’s principled stand to defend and uphold its sovereignty. Despite bullying and intimidation by…
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SA coal exports to Israel – profit before principle?
A matter of huge concern for Palestinian solidarity movements in South Africa is the unresolved and extremely troublesome issue of coal exports to Israel. For many, including trade unions and progressive forces, until a halt is placed on fuelling Israel’s war on Palestinians, the elephant in the room will remain South…
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Trump and Netanyahu’s “glory” is terminal
Much to his dismay when the war criminal Netanyahu had hoped that the billions invested in “improving” Israel’s public image would shield him and the settler colonial regime from adverse publicity, a new missile has been launched to blow his fiction apart. Having returned from his latest visit to the…
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Naledi Pandor’s US visa revocation is Zionist engineered
A series of articles against former International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor by Lawrence Nowosenetz, formerly associated with the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, appears to form part of the Zionist Hasbara with specific goals. In his recent piece published in The Times of Israel titled “Naledi Pandor – The South African…
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Sudan crisis not accidental: Rogue regimes UAE and Israel complicit in the genocide
Shocking images of brutal killings and massacres of thousands of civilians in El Fasher, western Sudan, during the end of October, appears to have awoken the world to a largely under-reported genocide ongoing for more than two years. The horrific reality of an escalation in the gruesome war became evident…
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Israel is kaput – defeated with its PR hopelessly ruined
If there is a word to capture or describe how badly Israel’s public image is damaged, what would it be? Most certainly the word would be “disaster”! Some may argue that even metaphorically speaking, the Netanyahu regime has exhausted all efforts aimed to overcome its disastrous public relations. Every action –…
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Netanyahu’s latest gamble: A ‘Third-Force’ headed by a criminal gang leader
The genie is now out of the bottle, despite Benjamin Netanyahu’s vain efforts to suppress news of his devious third-force created to counter the Palestinian resistance. Sooner or later, his “bad changes” will return to haunt him. War criminals especially of the Netanyahu-type who morbidly celebrate their gruesome massacres and…
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Savagery ensues as Netanyahu gets Trump green light to continue his genocide
The intensity of the resumed Israeli missile strikes and bombings across the besieged Gaza Strip is not only the settler-colonial regime’s continuation of its genocide of the Palestinians, but also a decisive rejection of the ceasefire that its war criminal leaders signed up to. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — for…
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Who was Kamal Adwan?
Since international attention is focused on the tragic fate of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, raided and bombed by Israel’s murderous army, and its medical team terrorised, detained and killed, it is instructive to recall the history of the person after whom the facility is named. Kamal Adwan…
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Yahya Sinwar: (29/10/62-16/10/24) Iconic resistance leader martyred by Zionist colonialists
In a heart-rending tribute to Palestine’s heroic freedom fighter Yahya Sinwar, senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya announced his martyrdom: “Our hearts are heavy but we are filled with determination and resolve.” He pointed out that, although the Zionist enemy fired two tank shells as well as a rocket-propelled grenade at…
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The call to ‘recalibrate’ South African foreign policy on apartheid Israel smacks of opportunism
Aiding and abetting Israel’s Illegal occupation of Palestinian territories has been outlawed by the latest advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice. The opinion has been welcomed by South Africa’s International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, as it conforms to the country’s long held position on the apartheid state’s…
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Good Jew Bad Jew — Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Assault on Meaning
Is there any country in the world that openly and crudely defies the collective countries of the West but, in spite of that, continues to enjoy the status of their favoured and trusted ally? None, except Israel, claims academic Steven Friedman. In his brilliantly detailed book Good Jew Bad Jew,…
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Global outrage is growing against Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza
Gaza’s killing fields are now in the seventh month of the settler-colonial regime’s genocide, without any sign of a reprieve for the besieged territory’s millions of Palestinians. Official records reveal that by day 200 of the barbaric Israeli offensive on 23 April, 3,025 massacres have been perpetrated, and 42,510 innocent…
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Iran’s historic attack was rooted in Palestine’s freedom struggle
The eve of 14 April, 2024, and the hours that followed will be recorded in history as momentous, because the Islamic Republic of Iran launched an aerial assault directly from its home soil against apartheid Israel’s settler-colonial regime. Israeli citizens attested that the tense hours when Iran’s drones and ballistic…
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An arms embargo on Israel is crucial if the ICJ genocide ruling is to be credible
Although dubbed as a mighty legal battle waged by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel’s so-called “War on Hamas”, some apologists for the Zionist entity repeated ad nauseum that the case was a futile exercise and a waste of time. To their dismay, though, the…
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Will massacres from Rabaa to Rafah see Sisi do more than watch people being slaughtered?
As the world reacts with mounting alarm to Benjamin Netanyahu’s declared goal to level Rafah to the ground, the spotlight now falls on Egypt. Will the North African powerhouse stand idly by allowing Israel to intensify its ongoing genocide in Gaza; make good its threat to annul the “peace treaty”…
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South Africa’s ICJ success has ushered in a new era of international law in pursuit of justice for Palestine
Ever since South Africa brought its case against Israel at The Hague during December, the world’s attention has been riveted on the outcome. The question that dominated public discourse was whether the ANC-led government of President Cyril Ramaphosa had made the right move to what effectively posed a crucial moral…
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South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is a challenge to the West’s ‘rules-based order’
All eyes are fixed on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as it begins its deliberations on whether or not South Africa’s application to halt Israel’s genocide in Gaza is compelling enough to succeed. South Africa’s monumental submission to the UN’s highest judicial institution positions its case as a defining…
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In siding with Zionist genocidaires, Germany ignores its own history of genocide in Namibia
As global outrage continues to escalate against the settler-colonial Israeli regime’s slaughter of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, it is necessary to glance back at Africa, where the first genocide of the 20th century occurred. Although 120 years separates the tragic events in Namibia and Palestine, on two different…
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Will Egypt’s coup leader escape scrutiny in South Africa?
Has South Africa overlooked Egypt’s problematic participation at the forthcoming BRICS summit? Dignifying its military leader Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi with the expected red-carpet treatment will in effect be an endorsement of regime change via military coup, which is how Cairo’s despot overthrew the democratically elected Morsi government to gain power. This month marks a…
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The Nakba’s 75th anniversary challenges the world to defeat settler-colonialism in Palestine
As most of the world recoils in horror at the latest demonstration of Israeli brutality and cold-blooded killings of Palestinians, many people are asking when these Zionist-led pogroms will end. It’s not before time. The Palestinians have for decades now faced Zionist savagery by Israeli thugs who masquerade as leaders…
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Netanyahu’s claim of Jewish exclusivity in Palestine must be challenged
The defiant declaration by Benjamin Netanyahu that he is going to press ahead and complete Israel’s colonial project in Palestine must be challenged by the world. Regardless of international law and conventions, his government is going to continue to defy them. Knowing full well that Israel has America’s backing, and…
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Biden’s capitulation to Bin Salman is a disaster for Palestine
Saudi Arabia’s monarchy under the leadership of unelected Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has always been suspected of maintaining close ties with the colonial state that occupies Palestine. Despite attempts to conceal this in the past, Saudi subterfuge hasn’t been very successful, perhaps by choice. The latest revelation reported by…
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Holy Land Foundation 5’ are victims of the US’ unjust persecution of Palestinians
The US’ destructive wars on Muslim countries launched in the wake of 9/11 under the misplaced rubric known notoriously as the “War on Terror” spawned senseless deaths and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale. The George W. Bush administration, heavily infested with neoconservatives and Likudniks, contemptuously ignored and wilfully disregarded the…