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...
Pretoria
South Africa Needs the Trump Treatment
The ANC has been too cozy for too long with the West’s enemies.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
South Africa’s Latest Pro-Terror Move
Why is the ANC renaming a major Johannesburg thoroughfare?
Op-eds
South Africa’s Ties with U.S. Adversaries Continue Unabated
A Russian naval ship made a port call in Cape Town on August 29, after stops in Cuba and Venezuela. This is the latest indication that South Africa’s new Government of National Unity (GNU) will continue...
Policy Briefs
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...
Policy Briefs
Nicaragua’s charade at the ICJ
The bitter irony is that it is the country’s far-left leadership, aligned with the dictatorships in Venezuela and Cuba, that should be in the dock.
Op-eds
U.S. Lawmakers Urge Sanctions on ICJ Judge With History of Anti-Israel Bias
A bipartisan group of nine members of Congress on March 28 called for newly promoted International Court of Justice (ICJ) President Nawaf Salam to recuse himself from Israel-related...
Flash Briefs
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...
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,...
Flash Briefs
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...
Flash Briefs
Hamas’ South African Support Network
A web of unsanctioned organizations operating in South Africa support and enable the terrorist group free of consequences.
Op-eds
ICJ Rejects South Africa’s New Attack Against Israel
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on February 16 rejected South Africa’s “urgent request for additional measures” to restrict Israel’s possible operations in Rafah....
Flash Briefs
Jerusalem Rejects Pretoria’s Genocide “Libel” at International Court of Justice
Israel rejected South Africa’s charge of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on January 12. The court is expected to decide within weeks on whether...
Flash Briefs
Israel SitRep: Jan. 12, 2024
Today’s Issue: U.S., UK, and Allied Forces Strike Houthi Targets | Israel Fights Allegations of Genocide at the UN | Israel, Lebanon Prefer ‘Diplomacy’ at Border, Says U.S. Diplomat | US Secretary...
Israel at War Situation Report
To Successfully Denuclearize North Korea, Washington Should Make it Think Like South Africa
If Mr. Trump opts to augment the pressure on North Korea, he will need to patiently wait out attempts by Kim to scare the international community into concessions. He shouldn’t be shaken. The United States should instead keep tightening the rope that led South Africa to abandon nuclear weapons.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices
Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...
Op-eds
Vienna Hotel Cancels BDS Talk By South African Terrorism Financier
The Hotel Arcotel pulled the plug on a BDS event last week with Farid Esack, a South African Islamic theologian, who has raised money for a Palestinian terrorist. The planned talk titled...
Op-eds
Israel Calls on Banks in Spain, South Africa, US to Shut BDS Accounts
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is ratcheting up pressure on banks to close the accounts of groups that boycott Israel, including one organization that has links to an internationally recogn...