He was especially famed for capturing the brutalities of the Apartheid regime. He leaves a powerful record of South Africa’s recent political and social history. The SAJBD extends its condolences to the family and friends of the late David Goldblatt.
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Wendy Kahn on Morning News Today
Wendy Kahn is from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and she talks about the Jews beginning their eight-day holiday of Passover tonight.
RACISM: DO THE DUCK TEST
Zev Krengel writes in the Sunday Independent. His piece is a response to Zane Dangor who questioned whether Jewish leadership were using criticism of Israel to silence debate. In this article Krengel applies the “Duck test” as an indication of antisemitism.
Yanir Grindler writes for the Daily Maverick "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is complex enough without the shouting."
Equating Zionism with racism is far too easy a way out of proper debate around the roots of the conflict in the Middle East, and Israel Apartheid Week serves to exacerbate rather than defuse the tensions. The time has come for rational debate in an attempt to find common ground between the two opposing sides, rather than slogan-shouting.