Nelson Mandela

November 26, 2025 | David May |

Former South African Foreign Minister’s U.S. Visa Revoked

“She led South Africa to sue Israel for genocide,” read a flyer for a recent appearance by Naledi Pandor in Houston. Don’t expect another U.S. speech in the near future from the former South African...

September 17, 2025 | Daniel Swift |

South Africa’s Youth Bear the Burdens of Corruption

The burdens of corruption fall on all classes and groups of people, but their effects on the youth of a developing country are profound.

September 15, 2025 | Daniel Swift |

South Africa Wants BRICS To Become a Global Naval Force

Ties between South Africa and Iran continue to strengthen. On September 6, Iranian state media reported that Iranian naval commander Captain Hassan Maqsoudlou confirmed that his country’s navy would...

August 25, 2025 | Max Meizlish, Melissa Sacks, David May

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Playbook for Combating Hamas in South Africa

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August 14, 2025 | Max Meizlish |

South Africa wants to fight Trump. Here’s how he should fight back.

South Africa is picking a fight with America it cannot win. This week, the country’s top general flew to Iran to deepen military cooperation with its Islamist regime. Just days earlier, African...

March 26, 2025 | Sinan Ciddi, Meghan Bodette

Turkey’s Kurdish peace talks: A genuine effort or Erdoğan’s power play?

Erdoğan is arguably negotiating with the Kurds mainly as a means of securing Kurdish parliamentarians’ votes to extend his rule as president

February 13, 2025 | Sinan Ciddi |

Erdoğan’s fourth term, brought to you courtesy of Turkey’s Kurds?

Under current provisions, Turkey’s president can only hold office for two five-year terms

January 10, 2025 | Mark Dubowitz, Elaine K. Dezenski

South Africa Needs the Trump Treatment

The ANC has been too cozy for too long with the West’s enemies.

October 11, 2024 | David May, Toby Dershowitz

Hamas-Supporting Grandson of Mandela Unable to Enter UK

Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, the grandson of South African anti-Apartheid champion Nelson Mandela, reportedly did not receive a visa in time to fly to the United Kingdom for a speaking tour that started...

July 3, 2024 | David May, Toby Dershowitz

New South African Government Likely to Continue Anti-Israel, Anti-U.S. Policies 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the formation of a coalition government on Sunday. Given the dominant position of his African National Congress (ANC), the government is poised to continue...

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 8, 2024 | |

South Africa Again Attacks Israel at the International Court of Justice

South Africa on March 6 submitted an urgent request that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order Israel to suspend its military operations in Gaza “immediately.” South...

March 8, 2024 | Orde Kittrie |

Stop bailing out South Africa’s corrupt leaders

Excerpt South Africa’s current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has betrayed Nelson Mandela’s legacy of human rights and social justice. South Africa’s citizens suffer through daily power blackouts of...

June 17, 2022 | Juan C. Zarate, Sarah Watson

The Lexicon of Terror: Crystallization Of The Definition Of “Terrorism” Through The Lens Of Terrorist Financing & The Financial Action Task Force

Excerpt It is widely assumed that there is no accepted international definition of terrorism, in part because global views on what constitutes terrorism are so politically polarized as to prevent arriving...

April 9, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Return of Palestinian Politics

Elections in May will be the first since 2006—a remarkable but risky gambit.

January 20, 2020 | David May |

War by Other Means

A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS

October 29, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Rose Parris Richter, Prof. Irwin Cotler

Profiles of Iranian Repression

Architects of Human Rights Abuse in the Islamic Republic

May 29, 2018 | David May |

South Africa Adds to Its Long Record of Israel-Bashing

South Africa recalled its ambassador to Israel two weeks ago to condemn the “violent aggressio...

May 4, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer

It’s time for a new Palestinian prez

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is under fire for anti-Semitic remarks in a speech on Monday. The octogenarian leader blamed the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust on Jewish f...

October 23, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Warming Ties Between Hamas and South Africa

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas sent a delegation to South Africa earlier this week. The delegation, led by head of Hamas’ politburo Khaled Meshal and his deputy Mousa Abu Marzouk, me...