Johannesburg

March 7, 2025 | David May |

Embracing Iran, South Africa’s ANC Claims ‘We Can’t Hide Our Friends’

South Africa’s ruling party is trying to have its biltong and eat it too. African National Congress (ANC) leaders have indicated a desire to repair relations with the United States but continue cozying...

February 27, 2025 | |

‘We Want a Meaningful Deal’: South African President in Overture to Trump Following Aid Cut

South African President Seeks Deal With Trump: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has stated that he wants to “do a deal” with U.S. President Donald Trump after the United...

January 13, 2025 | David May |

Lawfare Against Israeli Soldiers

Israeli tourist Yuval Vagdani had to escape for the second time. On October 7, 2023, he survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival near Gaza. Then in the first week of January 2025, he escaped Brazil...

October 14, 2024 | David May |

South Africa Is Not Pro-Palestinian, It’s Pro-Hamas

On October 5, 2024 Sheikh Riad Fataar declared, “We are all Hamas.” Fataar — who is the president of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), a large Muslim organization in South Africa — delivered...

October 7, 2024 | David May |

South Africa’s Latest Pro-Terror Move

Why is the ANC renaming a major Johannesburg thoroughfare?

September 18, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them

Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...

July 24, 2024 | Bill Roggio |

US Treasury Department designates Islamic State facilitators across Africa

Yesterday, the US Treasury Department sanctioned three Islamic State facilitators based in Zambia, Uganda, and South Africa. The three have operated as part of a coordinated network that moves money between...

July 24, 2024 | Connor Pfeiffer, Toby Dershowitz, David May

South Africa Must Change Course on Hamas

While Washington is primarily focused on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit and address to Congress this week, another side of the global conflagration around Israel’s war of self-defense...

March 18, 2024 | Toby Dershowitz, Max Friedman

Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel

Shortly before South Africa accused Israel in the International Court of Justice of committing genocide in its post-Oct. 7 counteroffensive against Hamas, the South African ruling party, the African National...

March 15, 2024 | |

South African Foreign Minister Vows to Arrest Returning Israeli Soldiers

South Africa will arrest its nationals who fight alongside the Israeli military, Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said on March 10. Speaking at a Palestine solidarity event, Pandor,...

November 21, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran, Arabic media focus on ceasefire talks

At BRICS summit, leaders of Arab countries, along with Brazil, China, Russia, India, and South Africa discuss ceasefire.

August 27, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Beware of Falling BRICS

With the BRICS Summit coming to a close, it is unclear what has been accomplished.

July 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must implement its anti-BDS policy

Pro-boycott sentiments are present in many federal ministries and state governments.

June 10, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel Endangering Jewish Life?

Vicious, often Muslim-animated antisemitism—including violence—has engulfed German cities.

May 6, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

50,000 scholar NGO slams ‘antisemitic’ BDS prof., supports German rep.

“For cosmetic and political reasons BDS groups try, albeit unsuccessfully, to draw a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism to soft peddle their racist policies."

May 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Antisemitic’ academic pushed for boycott of Israeli professors in 2018

Mbembe and another academic took the lead to boycott Prof. Shifra Sagy, a psychology professor at Ben-Gurion University, who was disinvited from the South African Stellenbosch University’s conference in 2018.

September 7, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

The Machiavellian VIRTUs

Two weeks before Turkey’s Black Friday, the August 10 meltdown of the lira, Turkish P...

June 16, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

South Africa Flubs its Chance at Justice for Bashir

Suspected war criminals scored a victory Monday as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied a South African judge’s order and...

December 12, 2012 | James Kirchick Forward

South Africa’s ANC Lurches Into Anti-Semitism

Ruling Party Tarnishes Nelson Mandela's Legacy of Tolerance

June 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

Zimbabwe Zigzags Onto Another Rough Patch

The ongoing stand-off in Zimbabwe between incumbent President Robert Mugabe and the main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, shows how much the political landscape can shift back and forth in t...