The BDS (Boycott, Divestment and sanctions) movement sure is noisy. While lacking cerebral substance, they understand the veracity of symbolism and language that is provocative, emotive and emotional. They understand that gratuitous use of the word Apartheid is guaranteed to get an emotional reaction from people. I use the word gratuitous intentionally because BDS have […]
By Peter Bailey The world is a depressing place when children are used as the spear-point to achieve military or political objectives. Whatever the objective, however noble the cause might seem in certain eyes, nothing can ever justify parents allowing and even encouraging the brainwashing, and filling their children with hatred. The glory of death […]
The term “safe spaces” has become the latest hot buzzword. It is “on fleek” with the trendy kids on campus who trot it out whenever they have an occasion to engage on a variety of divergent opinions and positions. There are safe spaces for every conceivable student organisation. Except for the Jewish or Pro-Israel groups, […]
The issue of human rights is alluring. It appeals to our conscience and sense of altruism and who does not want to be on the right side of supporting human rights? But what happens when organizations and individuals who claim to be concerned with the cause of human rights discriminate against the rights of another? […]
A recent reread of Charles Dickens’ enduring opening in his immortal classic ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ – “It was the best of times it was the worst of times” made me think about growing up during those “worst of times” in South Africa. Now living in Israel – a country that is fiendishly and […]
Yom HaShoah – the day in the Jewish calendar set aside for Holocaust remembrance – takes place on 27th Nisan which this year corresponds to the evening of Sunday 23rd and Monday 24th April 2017. But how has antisemitism mutated over time? And why does its return today present a danger not just for Jews, […]
*Harris Zvi Green Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed. This tactic has always been a key ingredient of the propaganda strategies created by totalitarian regimes to justify their ideologies. Success of this technique is achieved by confining the argument to a few key issues and then repeating them over and […]
There is something quite remarkable happening on the African continent. A groundswell of love and support from African Christians is swelling for the State of Israel, forged in biblical ties and a mutual love of the land. It is a relationship that has endured and survived political hardships defying voices calling for boycotts, divestment and […]
Name-calling Israel an Apartheid state has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with trying to destroy Israel by other means. It’s not working! If the enemies of Israel were parties in a traditional duel and asked “Choose your weapon”, no prize what they would choose. It would be the lie that “Israel is an […]
Linda Sarsour would appear to be a rising star of feminist causes. She organizes rallies, cleans up cemeteries and protests at every conceivable opportunity. She is a veritable pin up for girl power. In the last few days, Sarsour has made sweeping comments that Zionism and feminism simply do not go together. It just doesn’t […]
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is dangerously wrong because beneath the surface it’s an attempt to delegitimize Israel as a prelude to its elimination. No Jew and no humanitarian can stand by and see that happen. “Let me explain why,” says British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: Rabbi Lord Jonathan […]