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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.

South African Jews have lost the plot – again

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.

UNRWA and the question that is never asked

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.

Defunding UNRWA alone is nonsensical

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 could go either way on genocide

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.

The ICJ is a serial abuser of international law

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.

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

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

First the Aryan Jesus, now the Palestinian Jesus

Making anti-Semitism complex has failed to fight it

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

Making anti-Semitism complex has failed to fight it

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.

The Gazan "casualty count" may be used by Biden to stop the war

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.

A famed Diaspora community dangles between curse and prophecy

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

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

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

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.

Israeli compassion has been a double edged sword

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.

Into the dark heart of a symbolic cartoon

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.

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

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.

Biden cares no more than Obama did about dangers facing Israel

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

Australian government playing politics and law games with Israel

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.

The brittle backbone of Israel’s anti-reform movement

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.

Tackling antisemitism: Disproportionate attention to Israel

Biden and Blinken educate Likud about democracy?

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

Biden and Blinken educate Likud about democracy?

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.

Presidents clash over guns in a triangular contest

Judicial Deform

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

Judicial Deform

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.

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

Israel’s democracy dies in the fight for it

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

Israel’s democracy dies in the fight for it

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.

The blood libel pedigree common to Internat'l Law professors

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.

Judging from a bubble: South Africa and Israel

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.

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

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.

Israel can’t win against this weapon

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.

Jews become a queer concoction

Israel can’t ever be innocent

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

Israel can’t ever be innocent

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.

The Halo Rotten Empire cashes in on Israel

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.

God wants Israel to be Jihadist - sometimes

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.

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

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.

The price of Iranian crude: Israel traded for nuclear deal

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.

South Africa is the dirty pot calling the Jewish kettle black

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 Two-state Solution would be Israel and…?

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 Anti-Semite Stigma used to protect a Jew

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

The BDS Movement is cloned from Parashat Balak

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

Hitlers at heart

Hitlers at heart

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

Hitlers at heart

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.

The peculiar Jewish problem

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.

How to deny the Holocaust without denying it

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.

A Progressive Passover

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.

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

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.

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

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 do you call Putin collaborators?  Climate Activists

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.

What makes Putin pounce

Self-loathing only aggravates antisemitism

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

Self-loathing only aggravates antisemitism

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.

SA may be the most antisemitic government in the free world

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.

South Africa’s do or die remedy

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.

Was Job provoked to make him sin?

The Case against 'Occupied Palestinian Territory'

The Case against 'Occupied Palestinian Territory'

Torah gives Balaam a bad press – undeservedly, he thinks

The Israelites are basically off stage. They are bystanders while he, Balaam, does things to them and for them.

Torah gives Balaam a bad press –   undeservedly, he thinks

The lie that eternally bugs Israel

On July 17, 1968, the newborn 'Palestinian people' sprang from the PLO Charter claiming the 'West Bank' and Gaza as their birthright. Op-ed.

The lie that eternally bugs Israel

The anti-Zionist decree

The anti-Zionist decree is embraces more than Hitler’s: Your country has no right to exist and as a people you have no right to live. Op-ed.

The anti-Zionist decree

Earth Day – the crisis is for real?

We are led to see climate as an existential threat to life. Hysteria creates fear and fear makes people believe what they’re told. Op-ed.

Earth Day – the crisis is for real?

BDS has roots in the Bible

The cursers avoid the ‘Jew’ word; it would be self-destructive. Curse the Zionists all you like but don’t call them Jews. Op-ed.

BDS has roots in the Bible

The nuclear genie fed by Obama, bottled by Trump -freed by Biden

Dr Faustus gambled his own soul, but Biden, bartering with Iran behind closed doors, gambles with the lives of hundreds of millions. Op-ed.

The nuclear genie fed by Obama, bottled by Trump -freed by Biden

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

Anti-Semites combine hatred for the living Jew with reverence for the dead – unless they were killed by Palestinian Arabs. Op-ed.

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

Finale: No Balaam no bondage no Pesach

How the Midrash explains the bondage of the Israelites to Pharaoh as an idea spawned by Balaam, with Jethro against and Job silent.

Finale: No Balaam no bondage no Pesach

No Balaam no bondage no Pesach

Between the lines of the Midrasjh saying that Jethro, Job and Balaam were called to Pharaoh to advise him on the growing Israelite problem.

No Balaam no bondage no Pesach