By Peter Bailey For Two Jews in SA, “Black Land Ownership Matters” The dreaded Apartheid regime may have ‘gone with the wind’ but there is a relic from that era that remains and is reminiscent in the words of Margaret Mitchell’s immortal classic Gone With The Wind: “The land is the only thing in the […]
Throughout the days of Mandela’s passing in 2013 it rained incessantly. So too in Israel! During the memorial service at the residence of South Africa’s Ambassador,Mr Sisa Ngombane in Tel Aviv, the heavens opened. South Africans from all over Israel attended the ceremony held under a giant tarpaulin, with rain beating down on the canvas. […]
Breaking News!!!!!! BDS has moved into their new premises tailormade to their lies and deception about Israel. With the recent ruling in South Africa’s Equality Court against Cosatu’s (Council of South African Trade Unions) Bongani Masuku for hate speech against the Jewish community, what does BDS do? They circulate a 1975 United Nations resolution accusing […]
One of the questions I am frequently asked in lectures or interviews is where is the Palestinian and Israeli De Klerk and Mandela when it comes to ending the nearly 70-year conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Where is that equivalent of brave leaders willing to make the tough sacrifices to forge peace under circumstances that finds […]
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 […]
Throughout the days of Mandela’s passing in December 2013, it rained incessantly. So too in Israel! During the memorial service at the residence of South Africa’s Ambassador, Sisa Ngombane in Tel Aviv the heavens opened. It was said in tributes that as rain brings “life, rejuvenation and hope,” so too “has Mandela’s life on earth […]
The ‘legacy of linkage’ between South Africa and Israel is colourfully illustrated in the life of Arthur Goldreich who passed away in Israel in 2011. Goldreich’s role in the ANC underground was sensational if fleeting. Most of his life, following his dramatic escape from a downtown Johannesburg police station in 1963, was spent in Israel. […]