Eid ul-Fitr celebrations should be muted this year, as the Muslim world is drenched in blood, sadness and despair, writes Iqbal Jassat and Suraya Dadoo. From avalanches in Afghanistan to deadly heat-waves in Pakistan and earthquakes in Indonesia, a litany of tragedies, arising from natural disasters, are confronting Muslims. These are[…]
Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of homes in a village south of Hebron to be carried out after Ramadan, Israeli watchdogs said on Wednesday. Rabbis for Human Rights and B’Tselem said in a statement that pressure from Israeli settlers had led to the decision to carry out demolition orders in[…]
The South African Students Congress (SASCO) has suspended some of its members who participated in a recent trip to Israel. Local Palestinian solidarity organisations have labelled these holidays as “propaganda trips”, an attempt by the Zionist lobby to wage a counter offensive to the local solidarity campaigns. SASCO believes the[…]
An Israeli rights group on Monday released a video challenging the official Israeli account that a soldier was in danger when he shot dead a Palestinian teenager who threw a stone at the soldier’s jeep. Mohammad Kasbah, 17, was shot dead on July 3 by Colonel Israel Shomer after throwing[…]
A Johanneburg couple will attempt to summit the highest peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro at the end of August 2015. However, Abubakr and Fahmeedah Nadat have seized the opportunity to use their journey as an initiative to raise awareness and money to help rebuild Palestine and assist the thousands displaced in Syria. In[…]
A small crowd of protesters gathered outside Parliament on Friday calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine. Around the world similar protests were happening as the last Friday of Ramadan is marked as International Al Quds day. Back in Cape Town the turnout this was significantly less with[…]
Israeli forces deployed at a main checkpoint in northern Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank prevented hundreds of Palestinians from crossing into Jerusalem Friday morning, due to recently enforced entry restrictions based on age. Israeli forces prevented women between the ages of 16 and 30 from crossing to Jerusalem without[…]
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian supporters in Cape Town are expected to march through the city today, in what is widely regarded as International Quds Day. Globally, a march is annually held on the last Friday of Ramadan to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. This week also marks one year since[…]
Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial co-accused and Jewish anti-apartheid stalwart Denis Goldberg has came out slamming the Israeli lobby’s use of propaganda holiday trips to try to entice and buy-off South African students, young people and enterpreneurs. “The pro-Israeli lobby, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies and SA Zionist Federation try[…]
OPINION by Sharif Nashashibi – July 8 marks the anniversary of last year’s Israeli onslaught against Gaza. Commonly and mistakenly described as a war against Hamas, the targets and victims were overwhelmingly civilian (a consistent and deliberate Israeli military strategy). According to the United Nations, two-thirds of the 2,251 Palestinian[…]
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