South Africa

March 9, 2026 | David May, Theodore Schneiderman

South Africa Should Stand with the Iranian People, Not Their Oppressors

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be dead, but the warm feelings linger on in South Africa. The Islamic Republic’s brutal repression of its civilians and the US-Israeli operation against...

March 6, 2026 | Tzvi Kahn |

Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Americans (1979-Present)

Armed conflict between the United States and Iran did not begin in 2026, but instead has deep roots that extend back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. For nearly five decades, the clerical regime in Tehran...

February 9, 2026 | David May |

South Africa Rejects Israeli Water Assistance to Carry Water for Hamas

Pretoria just booted Israel’s top diplomat for an unforgivable offense: trying to help rural South Africans access clean water. Instead of focusing on the well-being of its citizens, the South African...

February 8, 2026 | Ivana Stradner, Britt Bowersox

Russian Propaganda Finds Powerful Megaphone in India

As it ramps up its media presence in India, Moscow is hardly in need of fabricating negative stories about the US. Washington is doing fine on its own to make itself inimical to New Delhi.

January 28, 2026 | David May |

Iran Protests Highlight South Africa’s Broken Moral Compass

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January 26, 2026 | David May, Melissa Sacks

Treasury Sanctions a Hamas-Supporting Nonprofit With Ties to South Africa

“The South African government does not have any relationship with Hamas.” The South African ambassador to Qatar, Ghulam Hoosein Asmal, made this claim in 2024 despite having met with a delegation from...

January 23, 2026 | Ben Cohen |

Don’t forget Iran!

There is truly a historic opportunity at work, based on the civilian protest movement. The world should not squander it.

January 16, 2026 | Max Meizlish, Daniel Swift

South Africa Eyes Confrontation With Trump Over Growing Ties to China, Russia, Iran

South Africa is testing President Donald Trump’s patience, launching a week-long naval exercise alongside America’s adversaries. China, Russia, Iran, and several other countries in the loosely organized...

January 8, 2026 | Maria Riofrio, Max Lesser

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

December 25, 2025 | Max Meizlish, Angela Howard

BRICS and forced labor: How Russia is exploiting an international economic bloc in its crusade against Ukraine

Excerpt For some of the world’s poorest people, BRICS — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is becoming a Trojan horse for Moscow’s war machine. Under the banner...

December 8, 2025 | David May |

Washington Temporarily Shuts Pretoria Out of the G20

South Africa’s relations with the United States are spiraling downward. “America will be forging ahead with a new G20,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on December 4 — one that does not include...

December 8, 2025 | Toby Dershowitz, Asher Boiskin

Al Jazeera’s Academic Arm Platforms Hamas Denialism and Anti-Israel Propaganda

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, the research arm of Qatar’s state-backed media giant, co-hosted an academic conference last week in Qatar’s Education City that whitewashed Hamas’s October 7, 2023,...

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...

November 20, 2025 | Max Meizlish, David May

South Africa Gets a Pass on Rampant Corruption

Why is a leading global watchdog turning a blind eye?

October 31, 2025 | Max Meizlish |

South Africa’s Removal from Anti-Money Laundering Watchlist Warrants Unilateral U.S. Action

South Africa has an illicit finance problem, and despite what an international monitoring group says, it’s far from over. On October 24, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) — the intergovernmental...

October 31, 2025 | Emily Hester |

The Hanoi Convention: Russia’s Blueprint for an Authoritarian Cyberspace

Russia is celebrating a major win in cyberspace. On October 25 and 26, representatives from 110 countries convened in Hanoi, Vietnam, to sign the Russian-drafted UN Convention on Cybercrime. Under the...

October 23, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, Emily Hester

The UN Cybercrime Treaty: A Trojan Horse for Suppressing Dissent

October 17, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.

October 16, 2025 | Ben Cohen, David May

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

October 14, 2025 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Daniel Swift

5 Ways the U.S. Should Retain and Upgrade America’s Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Congress would be smart to ensure the survival and reform of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) – America’s development bank that invests in private sector projects in developing...