Steve Apfel

The Progressive Passover

All the Palestinian Arabs had to do in Gaza after 2005's Disengagement was make unto themselves a nation. You’d think Moses the Progressive Jew would be happy. Think again.

Combating antisemitism:

Taking a leaf out of marketing

Define the broad market. Break the market into segments with shared characteristics. Target the segments, each with a pinpoint strategy, Opinion.

Small wonder that Jewish leaders have gotten nowhere against hate

This week’s “International Conference on Combating Antisemitism” was convened without settling what or who it was going to combat. Op-ed.

Will all Hell break loose?

South African Jews wait for Trump to force regime change

Afrikaners have set an example to follow. Opinion.

After the Bibas mother and boys atrocity, who supports Hamas out loud?

Which of the two is a greater rarity? 1. Anti-Zionists who don’t hate Jews or 2. Pro-Palestinians who don’t support Hamas? Opinion.

Trump’s executive order cutting off South Africa has verified God’s threat

Russell Mead: “Nations warped by Israel-hatred tend to make one dumb decision after another.” Trump: You like keeping company with regimes that wish us ill? No more money for you. Goodbye. Opinion.

The ultimate contest: Trump’s bid for Gaza vs. the Peace Blocker

One disrupter can jeopardize the President’s real estate concept. Unbeknown, even to the smartest President of modern times, a successful bid to redevelop Gaza entails depriving an entire economy of its money lifelines. Opinion.

The cruelty of stupid compassion

Objections to President Trump’s deportation order for illegals in the US and his plan to relocate every human shield out of Gaza reflect arrogant morality and collaboration with cruelty. Opinion.

The second coming should herald sanctions on a wicked African government

Trump will never let an African government on the skids make bad mischief for Israel. Tehran has already plucked this low lying fruit turning putrid in the noonday African sun. Opinion.

Zuckerberg’s Zionist bind: damned when he censors, damned when he doesn’t

Conflicted Jewish groups, confronting hate speech, want censorship back. Opinion.

Why the Pope pretends that Israel commits genocide

He reacts to Israel as he would to a slap in the face. Why is that? Opinion.

How to tell the difference between ‘pro-Palestinian’ and pro-Hamas

Reports of ‘pro-Palestinian’ protests are invariably false reports. There is no excuse when ‘pro-Hamas’ can be distinguished with ease. Opinion.

ICC arrest warrants, dark fantasy, abuse fiends and godless Anglicans

The war on Israel makes for weird allies. Opinion.

It’s hard to think of a better word than 'pogrom

This pogrom-in-miniature, rooted in an ethno-religious conflict thousands of miles away, is emblematic of a far larger problem in Europe. Opinion.

Flipping dead icons to gaslight genocide

How Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Helen Suzman became the ‘Jew card’. Op-ed.

How the ‘Grey Lady’ cover of Sinwar's elimination ran true to form

The New York Times motto means the paper’s business is bias. Truth is an after-thought. And if it takes bias to grow the bottom line, and satisfy investors, editorial staff are at liberty to lie through their teeth.Opinion.

The UN Hamas proxy law team commemorates the Holocaust in good faith

Antisemitism, explained Sartre in his 1944 classic, “Anti-Semite and Jew” is not a bad opinion of Jews. It is a warped personality that sees nothing amiss in combining hatred for the living Jew with reverence for dead ones. Opinion.

Biden's 'Don't' switched to warning Israel off Hezbollah and Iran for a reason

The dark connections of Biden saying ‘Don’t!’ to Israel striking Iran’s nuclear works combined with his call to lay down arms against Hezbollah did not appear from nowhere. Opinion.

Israel could win another war front, but chooses not to

The International Court of Justice gave birth to ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’ in July 2004. There is no such thing, but Israel ignores the winning card of the "occupation" lie.. Opinion.

Probing Josep Borrell for conspiracy to commit Jew-killing

Israeli Foreign Minister likens his EU counterpart to “the greatest antisemites in history.” Sadly, Borrell has stiff competition in that category. Opinion.

Jews for censorship

"From the River to the Sea" may be a dog whistle for genocide. Wanting the slogan banned is a terrible idea. Opinion.

UNRWA:

The humanitarian snake head is harder to beat than Iran's proxy armies

And UNRWA is a proxy of the humanitarian snake head. Opinion

The most problematic question

Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Opinion.

A legend for Jewish advocacy fell into a hole it dug for itself

The Anti-Defamation League can’t be trusted, declares Wiki.

The real meaning of antisemitism means that pro-Israel governments may be riddled with it

By means of creative bookkeeping western powers have turbo charged Hamas, again and again. When someone sets up, deliberately or not, Jews to be murdered there can be no question, the acts of that person or government are antisemitic. Op-ed.

The UNiversal Axis of Evil closes in on Israel.

International courts dovetail with humanitarian UN brigades and Joe Biden to beget a perfect storm. Opinion.

Trying to define antisemitism is a pettifogging fetish

Sartre: The anti-Semite has murderous instincts but has found a means of sating them. His thunderous diatribes at the ‘Yids’ are really capital executions.. He is a murderer who represses and censures his tendency to murder without being able to hold it back, yet dares to kill only in effigy. Opinion.

Columbia U. provides the perfect testing ground for definitions of antisemitism

The definition from 2,000 years ago proves to be the most accurate and practical. Why? Because every pro-Hamas has been caught harbouring a flagrant ambition to witness the liquidation of Zionists. Opinion.

Don’t let anti-Semites get away with murder

Why pressure Israel? Why not tell Hamas to stop fighting? Because its survival to kill Jews is more important than ending civilian suffering in Gaza. This is what anti-Semitism means. Opinion.

Criminal fools and genocide plotters confront Israel with a life-or death predicament

Israelis are self-centered, Indyk gripes. When will they put away their Oct 7 obsession and think of the Palestinian Arabs? Shouldn’t he be addressing that question to Hamas? Tell them to think of the Palestinian Arabs once in a while. And leave the Jews alone Op-ed.

South African Jews have lost the plot – again

Past gaffs have taught communal bodies mostly nothing, leaving a vulnerable and stressed community unprepared for greater shocks to come. Opinion.

UNRWA and the question that unbelievably is never asked

UNRWA fired the workers who took part in the massacre. Does something sound wrong in that sentence? Opinion.

Defunding UNRWA alone is nonsensical

‘Ad Hoc Court’ in The Hague rules that UNRWA dovetails with the International Court of Justice and the Human Rights Council. Opinion.

The ICJ could go either way on genocide

Don’t dismiss a corrupt, down and out country. South Africa as an Iranian proxy can make bad mischief for Israel. Opinion.

The ICJ is a serial abuser of international law

At the same time the court monitors Israel’s every act minutely like a prisoner on death row. Opinion.

Making anti-Semitism complex has failed to fight it

The torrent of raw hatred unleashed by Oct 7 validated a one-piece identikit. Opinion.

The Gazan "casualty count" may be used by Biden to stop Israel's winning the war

Blinken and Biden elevate Gaza’s health ministry, entrusted to count the casualties, to sit with God. Opinion.

A famed Diaspora community dangles between a curse and a prophecy

No democracy beats South Africa for leaders vocally committed to a Middle East Holocaust Op-ed.

On Oct 7 AP and Reuters were up to their old tricks

A War Journalist and a Collaborator are worlds apart. Opinion.

Israeli compassion has been a double edged sword

A surfeit of pity has given Israel a near death experience. Palestinian Arab lives spared by Israel? Paid for by Israeli lives lost. Op-ed.