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A local terrorism expert says it’s “really alarming” that the extremist group Islamic State Mozambique (ISM) took a South African hostage on 3 September. The South African mechanic was among a group of about 20 workers abducted in northern Mozambique...
While Jews around the world were celebrating Rosh Hashanah last weekend, President Cyril Ramaphosa stood at the podium of a BRICS summit and said that “there must be accountability for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians”. ...
When community and business leader Philip Krawitz received a victorious judgment from the Western Cape High Court last week, a moment from 32 years ago came to his mind. “I clearly recall newly elected President...
The South African Jewish community is celebrating the Western Cape High Court judgment in favour of Cape Union Mart. They see it as a victory against a...
In a landmark judgment that curtails antizionist hate, the Western Cape High Court has stopped the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), and its supporters, from defaming, targeting,...
When University of Cape Town (UCT) politics lecturer Dr Lwazi Lushaba told students in 2021 that “Hitler did no wrong”, it caused an uproar and a UCT investigation. But five years later, Lushaba is still teaching and saying...
Walking into the Western Cape High Court on 25 August, political extremist Mehmet Vefa Dag shouted “Death to Israel” at Jewish community members gathered for his Equality Court hearing on...
South Africa appears to be on a path of significantly tightening laws around financing terrorism. This is because of significant international pressure for the country to stay off the grey list. ...
Antizionist agitator Megan Choritz argues that she has a right to denigrate Professor Adam Mendelsohn – the director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at...
“Shame on you Jews and Nazionists [Nazi Zionists]. You caused the most suffering than any other nation. Shame on you, killers and murderers.” This was a statement made by Muslim...
South African Al Jazeera presenter Redi Tlhabi targets the Jewish State in multiple tweets a day, but on 30 July she took this a step further, targeting all of Israel’s supporters. Commenting on a video in which Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz,...
An anti-Israel organisation founded by Dr Imtiaz Sooliman is calling on South African retailers to publicly declare their businesses “apartheid-free zones”. While the organisation avoided using...
The international nongovernmental organisation UN Watch has filed a formal complaint with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres over Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng’s acceptance of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) candidacy for the...
An Israeli anti-terrorism organisation has confirmed that the attempted attack on the Cape Town Jewish community office building in December 2024 was undoubtedly an act of terror conducted by “Islamic extremists”. ...
South Africa is the world’s biggest exporter of coal to Israel, and it may now allow a large Israeli company, Navitas Petroleum, to become an operator of oil and gas exploration in the Orange Basin, off the country’s West Coast. This...
South Africa continues to pour millions into its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and into funding the Palestinian embassy in South Africa. Yet the...
While there is a perception that the South African Jewish community is in a rapid population decline, new data from the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research shows the Cape Town Jewish community may be bucking...
“When I look up at the sky, I have to figure out if what I am seeing is a bird or a drone,” says Adrienne Chonowitz, who made...
When Professor Adam Mendelsohn took the University of Cape Town (UCT) to court over its anti-Israel resolutions, he showed that he is unafraid of standing up to discrimination....
Protests outside the Western Cape High Court on 17 and 18 June made clear why the executive chairperson of Cape Union Mart, Philip Krawitz, has taken legal action to halt defamation directed at him...
All photography by Jude Kapeluschnik The watershed Cape Union Mart case, which may ultimately determine if South Africans can be defamed by false statements for being Zionists or...
More than eight years after British botanists Rodney (74) and Dr Rachel Saunders (63) were slaughtered in KwaZulu-Natal, three people have been found guilty of kidnapping, robbing, and murdering them. The couple were beaten, tortured, and stabbed in a 2018 attack likely inspired by Islamic...
South African oleh Jonathan Zausmer wasn’t planning on doing much to celebrate his birthday on Sunday, 7 June, but a higher power showed him that he still has a lot of living to do. He miraculously avoided a terrorist attack...
South Africa’s growing xenophobia crisis couldn’t have less to do with the Middle East, and yet the hatred on the streets is being blamed on the world’s only Jewish State. Conspiracy theories abound,...
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) in Johannesburg says it has seen a spike in antisemitic incidents in Gauteng in recent weeks. There have been 15 aggravated cases over the past...
Two men who say they faced almost daily sexual abuse while at the King David High School hostel in the 1980s have come forward to share their stories. Both buried their secret for decades. Now, they say they...
Antizionist hate was on full display at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town on Saturday, 16 May, at a Nakba Day festival. At what was billed as...
When the anti-Israel bloc of countries known as The Hague Group resolved to target the Jewish State with legal, economic, and diplomatic measures in July 2025, the terrorist group Hamas...
The same South African writers’ organisation that railed against “censorship” of the antizionist colouring book From the River to the Sea is now backing the boycott of an Israeli literary festival. The National Writers Association of...
President Cyril Ramaphosa is the first sitting head of state to sign an international petition demanding that Israel release convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Ramaphosa chose Freedom...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has angered and upset Christian groups, especially Catholics, by declaring that Pope Leo XIV’s “hands are dripping with blood”. Goldstein said this at the Yom Hazikaron commemoration in Johannesburg...
Dianna Yach, managing director and chairperson of the Mauerberger Foundation Fund (MFF) is being sued for, among other things, donating R1 million to Gift of the...
South African opera doyenne Aviva Pelham was called an “ugly Jewess” and a “wh*re” in the comments section of a post shared on the Gift of the Givers...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is set to bestow an honorary doctorate on Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, founder of the humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers, who has a...
Cape Town politicians, anti-Israel extremists, members of civil society, and local media made it clear they have no problem with the atrocities of the Islamic Republic of Iran when they...
Three hundred South African families living in the city of Beit Shemesh narrowly escaped death and injury when a missile sent by the Islamic Republic of...
South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has thrown its weight behind United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, placing the country in opposition to several European nations...
Prominent humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers (GOTG) has targeted Jews and Christians in a TikTok video posted on its social media platforms on 4 February. This...
South Africans in Cape Town have once again defied the local hate movement that wants to exclude Jews from society. A music event went ahead at the Castle of Good Hope (the Castle) on Saturday, 24 January,...
The tide could be turning against antisemitism in Cape Town, demonstrated by a group of young South Africans who came out this past weekend to stand up to extremists protesting outside Cape Union Mart at the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront....
