SAJBD response to SABC’s decision to cancel an interview on Metro FM Last week Thursday (21 March 2024), the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) found itself at the centre of a maelstrom of public discourse following the announcement of an interview with Millet Ben Haim, a survivor of the harrowing Nova Festival massacre. This interview, intended for SABC's Metro FM, was poised to offer listeners a poignant insight into the devastating impact of conflict on the live

South African Jewish women marched to Constitution Hill on International Women’s Day to highlight the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas not only against Israeli women on Oct 7 but that is continuing against the hostages even today. Following on the release of the UN report confirming the gender-based violence committed by Hamas, SAJBD leadership handed over a memorandum to President Ramaphosa’s office calling for a condemnation of the sexual violence and pressure to releas

“Questioning the lived experience of Jewish South Africans does not contribute to a just peace in Israel and Palestine”. SAJBD Political and Social Justice Liaison Alana Pugh-Jones Baranov writes in her article in the Business Day, ‘Denial of antisemitism in South Africa harms the entire social fabric’. Read article here

Communal leaders ask Israel not to forsake SA. Read about their trip to Israel in the Jewish Report here .

Rebuilding Life amidst the ashes. SAJBD National Director Wendy Kahn visits communities that had been brutalised by Hamas in Israel. Read her article in the Jewish Report here .

SA's lawfare against Israel Faryn Kantor deconstructs what the ANC govt's legal team got up to at the ICJ Read article here

The new dawn has evaporated for South Africa’s Jews Read article here

I vote for you, SA, not the ruling party writes SAJBD national chairperson Karen Milner in the Jewish Report Read article here

Statement by SAJBD and SAZF on the discontinuation of ELAL flights to SA ELAL Airlines has announced that they will be discontinuing...

SAJBD response to Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam’s comments at Sona On 14 February, the chambers of Parliament once again echoed to the sound of bigoted hatred targeting the South African Jewish community. And once again the culprit wasOn 14 February, the chambers of Parliament once again echoed to the sound of bigoted hatred targeting the South African Jewish community. And once again the culprit was National Freedom Party representative Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam. Speaking during t

Hundreds of enthusiastic protestors gathered outside the headquarters of Cricket SA (CSA) this afternoon to vent their outrage at the...

SAJBD comments following meeting with Cricket SA, 16 January 2024 At a meeting held today, Cricket SA (CSA) categorically failed to...

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The SAJBD picketed outside the offices of the Department of Justice to protest against Minister Lamola’s refusal to acknowledge that there is antisemitism in South Africa. Wearing t-shirts `The Lamola Deception’, we delivered a memorandum of understanding calling for the Minister to recognise that antisemitism is not `a figment of the imagination’ as he suggested in his interview on BBC HardTalk. We called for antisemitism to be taken seriously as they do with all other forms

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