Zionism Archives - Voice of the Cape

The PSC: “Both Harris and Trump are strong supporters of Zionism and Israel”

By Kouthar Sambo As American voters make their way to the polls to choose their president, civil society, and the United States (US) elections come amid a time of great geopolitical fractures in the Middle East, the Russian/Ukraine war, and the Sudan conflict. Speaking on VOC's PM Drive show on Monday, Professor of International Relations at Wits University and the Director at the African Centre for the Study of the […]

5 November 2024

International

Balancing act is over: Israel protests are not about democracy, but ideology

The late Israeli commentator, Uri Avnery, wrote, "I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle … is assuming a more and more religious character." At first glance, the statement may seem baffling. If Israel is a 'Jewish State' that serves as a 'homeland' for all Jewish people, everywhere, does it not follow that the 'struggle', at least from an Israeli viewpoint, is essentially a religious one? If only it was that […]

1 August 2023

International News

Israel approves funds for ‘anti-Muslim hate group’ to fight BDS

Casting further light on the nexus between Zionism and the rise of the Islamophobia industry, the Israeli government has approved a grant to an American “anti-Muslim hate group”. Documents obtained by Jewish-American magazine, Forward, through a Freedom of Information Act request, revealed that Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, transferred $40,000 to a Tennessee-based Christian Zionist organisation which is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLT) watch list of hate groups. […]

4 September 2020

News

Malcolm X and Afro-Palestinian solidarity in focus

There is long history of the black resistance movement in the US standing with the cause of Palestinian liberation, drawing the connection between their shared experience of oppression and resistance against European colonialism. It is a little known fact that in 1964, Malcolm X was one of the first African American leaders to meet with the newly formed Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) where he commented that: "The argument to justify […]

28 February 2018

News

Bokaap community calls urgent meeting, after Vista school ordered to remove anti-Zionist posters

The Western Cape Education Department is meeting with Vista High school, following complaints around the display of anti-Zionist posters in the school. The complaints were lodged by Herzlia high school, after learners when to the school to start a community project to upgrade some of the schools facilities. The schools have an exchange programme in place which sees students from Herzlia improve Vista's library, build a playground area and tutor […]

14 September 2017

Opinions

The wonder of imperial feminism

By Susan Abulhawa When I was a little girl, like many women of my generation who grew up watching American television shows (even if they were dubbed in Arabic), I used to twirl and twirl, trying to attain super powers like Wonder Woman. I would twitch my nose to magically transform my surroundings, like Samantha from Bewitched. These female characters were exceptions among the docile housewives, the efficient secretaries, and […]

16 June 2017

Opinions

50 years: Israeli occupation longest in modern history

Fifty years ago this week, the state of Israel shocked the world when it seized the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, in a matter of six days. In a war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, known as the 1967 War, or the June War, Israel delivered what came to be known as […]

6 June 2017

Opinions

Never forget the Nakba

OPINION by Ibrahim Vawda As Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (approximately 66% of Palestinian population worldwide) enter the 70th year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland, Israel continues to create intolerable living conditions which further swell the number of displaced Palestinians. This ongoing Nakba (‘catastrophe’) is perpetuated through Israel’s denial of the Palestinian refugees’ Right of Return, the right to self-determination as well as other human […]

12 May 2017

Zionism

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