The politicization of healthcare and scapegoating people is dangerous writes Alana Baranov. That people are being turned away from hospitals and clinics by vigilante mobs based on their skin colour and language in South Africa today is truly abhorrent. The SAJBD condemns in the strongest terms the hostility to migrants and foreign nationals accessing healthcare care facilities in our country, with incidences of xenophobic protests by Operation Dudula outside our hospitals and

Academic denigrates Jews under the guise of ‘criticising’ Israel by Prof Karen Milner Read here

'We say 'Ag Shame Africa4Palestine.' Read the Opinion Piece here

David Saks responds to the scurilous and grossly antisemitic article by Oscar Van Heerden in News24 this week. It is regrettable that such overtly offensive and hurtful material should have been published in a mainstream South African publication. https://www.news24.com/news24/ ...

Minister Naledi Pandor sinks to a new low Six months and tens of thousands of civilian deaths later, we are still waiting for our Department of International Relations & Cooperation (DIRCO) to condemn Russia's barbaric war of aggression against the Ukrainian people. By comparison, within hours of armed clashes breaking out on the Israel-Gaza border, Dirco Minister Naledi Pandor had rushed to issue yet another virulent denunciation of the Jewish state and ignored the indiscrim

We congratulate The Chinese Association on the hate speech judgement in the Equality Court today The SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) congratulates The Chinese Association (TCA) on the successful outcome of their Equality Court Judgment in the Johannesburg High Court in respect to hate speech against the Chinese community. The SAJBD welcomes this important judgment, which represents another significant advance in the ongoing fight against racist hate speech and unfair disc

DIRCO Minister Naledi Pandor showed her true colours yesterday when she scoffingly dismissed Jewish concerns over antisemitism during an address to Palestinian Ambassadors. In the course of yet another propaganda tirade against Israel, Pandor flippantly remarked that she was mentioning the ‘two state solution’ because if she did not, many people would seek to paint her as antisemitic. By this, she not only implied that Jews level baseless charges of antisemitism in response t

Alana Baranov writes in the Daily Maverick: In the smouldering ashes of our social cohesion “If we fail to take a stand against xenophobia, South Africa’s fragile social cohesion will become a tinderbox which the smallest spark could set ablaze”. Read here

David Saks fascinating history of Lilieslief Farm and the Jewish connection in the Mail & Guardian https://mg.co.za/opinion/2022- ...

“David Saks responds to attack on Durban Holocaust Centre” https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/ ...

Charisse Zeifert writes in politicsweb on the legal mechanisms to protect communities against prejudice. https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/taking-a-stand-against-hate

Prof Karen Milner was on SABC TV to explain why Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments about Hitler were antisemitic and offensive Watch the video at SABC TV The Globe http://www.ornico.co.za/editor ...

In her latest attempt to justify South Africa’s morally bankrupt stance on the Ukraine invasion Minister Naledi Pandor can do no more than resort to her usual knee-jerk Israel bashing. Addressing the Heads of State on Friday, she chose to make outrageous comparisons between the devastation that Russia is wreaking on the Ukrainian people and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Apart from being a weak and obvious attempt to dodge the question by dragging in a completely unrelated

Join us as #WeRemember. Thursday, 28 April | West Park Cemetery 11:45 - family testimony, solo by Melissa Krawitz 11:55 - reading of the names 12:00 - traditional ceremony with Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert

One week, three terrorist attacks, 11 dead, including Jews, Arabs, Druze & 2 Ukrainian refugees. We join the people of Israel in mourning the victims of these appalling crimes. Those who foster hatred & glorify the murder of innocents must not be allowed to prevail

At the SAJBD’s meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador Liubov Abravitova, she appealed for assistance with her fund towards humanitarian relief for those suffering in Ukraine. Please see a letter from the Ambassador below If you would like to contribute to her fund: Embassy of Ukraine-Donation Account Bank FNB Account number 62938629849 Branch: Brooklyn 251345

Agonising images fill our television screens, as we learn of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine. As other Jewish communities open their hearts and their homes to refugees from war torn Ukraine and provide them with shelter, food and relief, we as South African Jewry also want to assist in alleviating the suffering. We have identified 5 organisations that we work with that are providing relief to those trapped in Ukraine and the refugees who are fleeing. The internat

We applaud the bravery of Sarah Idan and those like her who are prepared to put themselves at risk by challenging the poisonous narrative on Jews and Israel that is so tragically prevalent in so much Middle East discourse and so frequently deteriorates into antisemitism. We look forward to engaging with the former Miss Iraq, now a global peace activist, and hearing her experiences in working for peace & promoting human rights in the Middle East to youth & women's groups, the

Jewish Board won, Cosatu’s Masuku lost, finish and klaar It is astounding that even after successive rulings culminating in a unanimous Constitutional Court judgment finding Cosatu spokesperson Bongani Masuku guilty of antisemitism, Steven Friedman (“The real trick to Bongani Masuku’s case”, 25 February) persists in deriding the case brought by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and even to portray the outcome as a defeat for the pro-Israel lobby. The bald facts tell a d

OPINION More AU countries are choosing closer ties with Israel, to their benefit SA's grandstanding about Palestine and the world's sole Jewish state is leaving it increasingly irrelevant 06 March 2022 - 00:00 BY CHARISSE ZEIFERT A growing number of Arab countries have chosen to normalise their relations with Israel, and clearly more and more African countries are forging stronger ties with it, to the mutual benefit of all, says the writer. Stock image. A growing number of Ar