Steve Apfel is director of the School of Management Accounting, Johannesburg. He is the author of the book,'Hadrian's Echo: The whys and wherefores of Israel's critics' (2012) and a contributor to, "War by other means." (Israel Affairs, Special Issue. July 2012)
Mandela legacy and Pink Floyd fallacy
It's almost impossible to find a way through to the mind of an Israel hater like Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. But here's trying with a little context about life and death for Jews, Palestinians and South Africans
- 13 December 2013
How Nelson Mandela helped me fight anti-Israel media
The moral authority of a great man like Mandela is not always contained in landmark speeches. Sometimes a few short words of encouragement can go a long way, as this South African writer remembers from personal experience
- 8 December 2013
International "law" as the anti-Zionist Bible
“Our bible is international law” says Andrew Standley, the EU ambassador to Israel. But the Bible also speaks of evil. It all depends on which part you are reading, and what "law" and the Bible mean to you
- 29 November 2013
Anti-Zionism: the "big" ideology
Communism explained history in terms of a struggle between classes for political and economic power. Nazism explained history as a struggle between races for world domination. What claim does anti-Zionism make (that you haven't heard before) ?
- 4 November 2013
Oh dear. Son of Guardian (The Independent) gets all fisky fisky about Robert Fisk and the Jews
The Independent (laughable name, we know) is a very poor UK leftist relation to the Guardian. Talk about defensive over Israel and anti-Semitism...
- 8 October 2013
Christianity gone haywire, and going down
Tom Holland the historian reckons we’re witnessing the total extinction of Christendom in the Middle East. And Christian leaders' attitudes and actions in the Holy Land are far from standing in the way
- 30 September 2013
“Dubula iJuda”…and the lid blew off
A very telling tale from South Africa on the Israel boycotters. "Kill the Jews" had always expressed underlying sentiment. But it must never be said out loud
- 20 September 2013
What's wrong with a Zionist lobby anyway?
It's the Arab lobby that really exerts the negative influence on US foreign policy, and it is they that use the underhand tactics due to the weakness of their case
- 12 September 2013
Israel boycotters: The goose and the golden egg
Part 3. of a 3 part series on the whys and wherefores of Israel boycotters
- 7 August 2013
Israel boycotters: La Trahison des clercs
Part 2. of a 3 part series on the whys and wherefores of Israel boycotters
- 2 August 2013
Israel boycotters: A Kabbalistic mission
Part 1. of a 3 part series on the whys and wherefores of Israel boycotters
- 31 July 2013
Lament of the patriarchal Israel-curser
When the Hebrew God famously told me, of all diviners, to shut my mouth I should have listened
- 10 July 2013
Return of the yellow star
In the post-Holocaust era it is infra dig to hate Jews, publicly at least. Hence the transmogrification from Jew to Zionist
- 28 June 2013
The 'International Community': It is what it is
The 'International Community' is what it is - much to Israel's hindrance
- 4 March 2013
The UN’s bad cop for Israel
If the UN Special Special Rapporteur were a joke, he’d be one made in very poor taste. Richard Falk just isn’t funny
- 4 January 2013
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