Steve Apfel

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 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.

Pro-Israel governments may be riddled with antisemites

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. is the 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

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 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.

Israel on trial for genocide-don't take it lightly

Buzz words are intended to hide the truth rather than tell the truth. The ruling clique of South Africa, basically a criminal syndicate, deems it not desirable for Israel to dismantle its ally in crime, Hamas. Op-ed.

First the Aryan Jesus, now the Palestinian Jesus

Robbing Jews of identity paves the way for genocide  What better way than the canard that Jesus was an Aryan-and now a Palestinian. 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 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 curse and 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.

Into the dark heart of a symbolic cartoon

The cartoonists real message is: Why won’t the Jews just let themselves be killed? Op-ed.

Abbas just proved that a '2-State Solution' is a Pandora's Box

Not only will the Palestinian Arabs not get a prize, but Israelis will be handed a Pandora's Box.Op-ed.

Biden cares no more than Obama did about dangers facing Israel

To leave office with a legacy Obama supped with a devil. Then came Trump. He well and truly bottled the genie.Biden popped the cork. Op-ed.

Australian government playing politics and law games with Israel

OPT (the term Occupied Palestinian Territory) is no more than a political objective, an aspiration, a denial of history and of law. Op-ed

The brittle backbone of Israel’s anti-reform movement

Anti-reformers, blocking out reality, insist Netanyahu give the mobster head of a crime family the right to lecture him on democracy.Op-ed.

Tackling antisemitism: Disproportionate attention to Israel

The gold standard is dead. Long live the Impossible Standard! The one Israel is put to, that is. Op-ed.

Biden and Blinken educate Likud about democracy?

Even completely corrupt South Africa could teach the B…s a lesson in democracy. Op-ed.

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Presidents clash over guns in a triangular contest

Follow the money to decide which leader is the bigger scoundrel - Biden, Ramaphosa or Putin. Op-ed.

Judicial Deform

The High Court Judgment that plagues Israel permanently. Op-ed.

S.A. writer equates Russian invasion and Israel's "invasion"

A Business faculty makes Russia’s invasion equal to Israel’s “invasion” - and says it wants to combat 'misinformation.' Really? Op-ed.

Israel’s democracy dies in the fight for it

Killing freedom for the love of it. Op-ed.

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The blood libel pedigree common to Internat'l Law professors

Because of the "occupation" lie, the world gives Arab terrorists a pass for murdering Jews, like the two young Israelis shot today. Op-ed.

Judging from a bubble: South Africa and Israel

Could a day-dreamer about the state of S. Africa be wide awake about Israel? Not if he confuses the rule of law with rule by lawyers.Op-ed.

To commemorate Jewish martyrs you don’t have to like Jews

Think Linda Sarsour and Nava Pillay commemorating Holocaust victims. No problem there: dead Jews are respected, live Jews are hated. Op-ed.

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Israel can’t win against this weapon

Groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad know a gift when they see one. For them, the more Arab civilians get killed in clashes the better Op-ed.

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Jews become a queer concoction

Culture crankiness: A dark skinned racist belonging to the victim class can’t be a perpetrator or oppressor, no mater what he does. Op-ed.

Israel can’t ever be innocent

The creed of international policing insists that Jews are always to blame. Op-ed.

The Halo Rotten Empire cashes in on Israel

UNGA votes for “urgent advisory opinion on Israel’s prolonged occupation.” UNHRC condemns Israel weekly. A good way to make a living. Op-ed.

God wants Israel to be Jihadist - sometimes

Jewish law, anticipating liberals, sets limits to mercy. A foe intent on bloodshed loses his right to life. But not to the halo brigade.

Woke up! A new way of defining the same old Jew-hatred

'A mind that rejects the reality of biological sex is one unlikely to recognize facts about the Holocaust, about Jews and Israel' .Op-ed.

The price of Iranian crude: Israel traded for nuclear deal

Israel’s fickle allies were enfeebled by a cultic hatred of fossil fuel. Climate paranoia caused a nuclear deal,against common sense. Op-ed.

South Africa is the dirty pot calling the Jewish kettle black

Quick-fire accusers -No member of the United Nations quite matches South Africa for speed of condemnation of Israel. Op-ed.

The Two-state Solution would be Israel and…?

Arab spring fever, followed by the rise of Iran to menace Arabia, weakened grandiose Arab dreams to the point of death. Op-ed.

The Anti-Semite Stigma used to protect a Jew

Is invoking George Soros as a puppet master behind current events really an anti-Semitic trope? Op-ed.

The BDS Movement is cloned from Parashat Balak

In Durban the non-military assault, a war of curses, was launched,one Israel can’t win. Soon, the court of public opinion was onto its case

Hitlers at heart

"Nations and political establishments warped by Israel-hatred tend to make one dumb decision after another." So it is with Navi Pillay.Op-ed

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Hitlers at heart

Anti-Israel or anti-Semite? Can you tell the difference? Opinion.

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The peculiar Jewish problem

Loathing for Israel is complicated. How do so many Jews come to hate Israel with all their might and ire?  Opinion.

How to deny the Holocaust without denying it

Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity is the latest form of Holocaust denial.Op-ed.

A Progressive Passover

At Passover time, agitators for a State of Palestine feel compelled to act Moses, paraleling the Exodus with the Two State Delusion. .Op-ed.

America’s 2020 masquerade election led to the world’s turmoil

In a conflict of might against right, you don’t want a leader deficient in both and also deficient in the moral right to take a stand.Op-ed.

Biden is more than a blunderer-his Nuclear Pact is evil

Biden egregiously outsourced America’s security to its arch enemy and Iran’s firm ally, Vladimir Putin. And sent Malley to Vienna. Op-ed.

What do you call Putin collaborators? Climate Activists

The politics of renewable energy have been the joker in Putin’s hand. Green politics filled his coffers and enabled the war on Ukraine.Op-ed

What makes Putin pounce

Putin is preictable and is doing exactly what he said he would.He craves respect and if he doesn't get it, fear will do just as well. Op-ed.

Self-loathing only aggravates antisemitism

Liberal excoriation of fellow Jews is appropriated by antisemites for moral justification. Op-ed.

SA may be the most antisemitic government in the free world

Mandela was sympathetic to Zionism as a movement for freedom and self-determination. Today SA befriends N. Korea, not Israel.Op-ed.

South Africa’s do or die remedy

A merit-free economy and a doomed society are wedded. Discard merit and you invite collapse. Witness South Africa. Op-ed.

Was Job provoked to make him sin?

The God of mercy let Job be tested. The prosecuting team reckon he can be brought to the point of no return of cursing God Almighty.