Tag: Israel

14Jan 2018

A letter to Ahed Tamimi

By Monessa Shapiro* Dear Ahed Firstly, let me tell you how sad I am that you are in prison.  Prison is certainly not the place for teenagers.  If only you could be shopping with your friends, swimming in the pool or going to a movie. But, more importantly, I am both heartbroken and angry, because […]

14Jan 2018

Message from a Monarch

“Strengthen ties with Israel” says Zulu king to ANC Less than a month after the ANC at its national conference in December 2017 voted to downgrade the South African Embassy in Tel Aviv, the king of South Africa’s Zulu nation has urged the ANC’s leadership to do precisely the opposite – upgrade not downgrade. Speaking […]

Praying
10Jan 2018

Uganda Revisited

*By Hanouch Daum It was not only the case of ‘visiting a country’ but ‘revisiting an idea’ Freelance Israeli journalist, a contributor to the national daily newspaper ‘Yediot Achronot’, a standup comic, author of six books, and local TV personality, Hanouch Daum visited Uganda in December 2017 during the Jewish festivity of Hanukah. Why Uganda? […]

08Jan 2018

Fair Weathered Friend

Storm hits Joburg, SA dials Jerusalem While South Africa voted against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, it did not hesitate to call the Jerusalem-based ZAKA headquarters when the ‘Mother of all Storms” hit the city on New Year’s Eve. No matter how inebriated Jo’burg folk were on the 31st December […]

02Jan 2018

“No Way to Treat a Child”

By Shaun Sacks* Palestinians exploit their children for Politics In their desperate attempts to delegitimize Israel, Palestinian, South African, and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), have been active in a campaign that exploits Palestinian children for political gain.  This campaign, known as “No Way to Treat a Child,” is just the latest incarnation of attempts by […]

01Jan 2018

Irate Iranians – Lessons for South Africa

South Africans should be watching carefully! As frustrated Iranians protest “Enough is Enough”, how long too, before South Africans across the country rise and say enough of being fed a daily diet of lies, deception and corruption instead of jobs, housing, and services! Instead of investing in their citizens, the Iranian Ayatollahs, are hellbent on […]

Ahed Tamimi in Court (Photo Hillel Meir)
28Dec 2017

Poster Girl!

Political Porn South African Niveen Abboushi posts on her Facebook page the poster girl, 16- year old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi, being arrested by Israeli IDF. With blonde curly hair Ahed is pretty, maybe even sultry, and most certainly provocative but provocative in a far more devious, dangerous and ‘revealing’ way. Aided and abetted by […]

The Game-Changers
27Dec 2017

The Gamechangers – From Truman To Trump

Separated by nearly 70 years, a Democrat and Republican President transformed the political landscape of the Middle East There is a street in Israel named after President Harry S. Truman, not after F.D. Roosevelt, will probably never be for Barak Obama and most assuredly will be one after President Donald Trump.* As Jews for 2000 […]