A South African member of Parliament, Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam of the National Freedom Party, delivered a speech on February 14 in which he warned Jews there would be a “bloodbath” if the “Zionists” tried to make Cape Town a “Jewish state.”
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ judicial body for handling disputes among countries, declined Friday to block Israel from undertaking military operations in Rafah, Gaza, against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
South Africa urgent filing Monday with the International Court of Justice to stop an impending Israeli attack on Hamas in Rafah complains about an “assault” on the evening of February 11 without noting that the successful operation rescued Israeli hostages.
South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to issue a judicial opinion barring Israel from attacking the last Hamas battalions in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, saying that such an attack, which would win the war, violates Palestinians’ rights.
Former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak dissented from the preliminary ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday on whether Israel is committing “genocide” Friday, saying the court “has wrongly sought to impute the crime of Cain to Abel.”
Major South African banks are providing funding for the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group, according to an investigative report Wednesday in the Jerusalem Post that also names a former Muslim community leader as a key figure in the financing operation.
Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), one of South Africa’s larger opposition parties, has vowed that he will send weapons to the Hamas terrorist organization if his party forms part of his country’s next governing coalition.
Israel issued a statement Tuesday addressing one of the most glaring mistakes in South Africa’s presentation last week to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague: the distortion of the Bible’s reference to the evil nation of “Amalek.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked 100 days since the October 7 terror attack Saturday evening by reiterating that Israel intends to fight “until the end” and destroy Hamas, whom he described as “the new Nazis” in their determination to destroy Israel and Jews.
Canada and Germany rallied to Israel’s side on Friday, hours after Israeli legal representatives delivered their rebuttal to South Africa’s claim of “genocide” at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands.
A group of prominent celebrities including Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, and HBO’s “Game of Thrones” stars Lena Headey and Charles Dance is lending their support to South Africa’s genocide accusations against Israel, which is currently playing out in the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
South Africans do not generally hate Israel or Jews, but the South African government, and the country’s political and cultural elites, resent Israel with a blinding intensity that is unique in the democratic world and presents a serious threat to Jews.
South Africa has suspended David Teeger, the Jewish captain of the country’s under-19 cricket team, for the duration of the World Cup because of remarks he made last year supporting Israel against the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
“Under the guise against Israel of the allegation of ‘genocide,’ this court is called to end operations against an organization that pursues an actual genocidal agenda.”
Republicans should refuse to reauthorize the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers preferential trade to several African countries, due to South Africa’s behavior in siding with murderous regimes and terrorists against the West.
One of the crazier claims in South Africa’s so-called “indictment” against Israel for “genocide” at the International Criminal Court (ICJ) Thursday was that Israel is “trying to prevent Palestinian births” because of the impact of the war on pregnant women.
South Africa recently declared that the incendiary song “Kill the Boer” is not hate speech or genocidal, but told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on Thursday that phrases like “destroy Hamas” proved Israel’s “genocidal intent” in Gaza.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) reacted Wednesday to South Africa’s accusations of “genocide” against Israel by accusing the African nation of hypocrisy: “Maybe you ought to sit this one out!”
South Africa’s case against Israel on Thursday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague was a classic display of antisemitism, in that it portrayed Jewish victims of genocide as the aggressors — a familiar pattern from Babylon to the Nazis.
South African lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi misquoted the Bible on Thursday in accusing Israel of “genocide” against Palestinians at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, as it tried to turn the victim of Hamas’s a terror attack into the aggressor.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Wednesday evening reiterating Israel’s limited war aims, ahead of a hearing Thursday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on whether Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza.
If the ICJ sides with Hamas against Israel, reversing the positions of the aggressor and the victim, it will cause permanent damage to its own reputation.
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee who became a global star competing at his sport’s highest level while running on carbon-fiber blades, was released from prison on Friday after serving nearly nine years for killing his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp.
The White House called South Africa’s “genocide” claims “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever.”
The anti-American BRICS economic and security coalition will welcome five new members on January 1: a country in a severe economic crisis, another openly defaulting on its sovereign debt, and two countries embroiled in a proxy war against each other.
Harvard University may intend to reduce the proportion of Jews in its student body to 1-2%, roughly the Jewish share of the U.S. population, according to a newsletter published by a new group of Jewish alumni of the institution.
South Africa has seen public Hanukkah celebrations canceled as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has entertained leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization on a solidarity visit to the country.
The granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has demanded that the British Royal Family pay reparations for its role in colonialism in Africa.
A “mob” tied-up and burned to death seven men accused of a crime wave on Sunday in one of South Africa’s most violent townships.
Cimate envoy John Kerry scolded the world for not making enough sacrifices to fight climate change at the COP28 climate conference.
Former South African Cabinet minister Ronnie Kasrils exuberantly praised the Hamas terror attack of October 7, in which roughy 1,200 Israelis were murdered, calling it “brilliant, spectacular,” and “damned good.”
The State of Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa after the South African government, which has backed Russia in its invasion and war against Ukraine, called for the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A golf course in South Africa had a bit of a pest problem this week when a giant cobra invaded the fairway, adopting an aggressive posture.
South African Foreign Minister Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor issued a statement on Tuesday calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers, and other “key decision-makers” for war crimes.
Anti-Israel activists waving the ISIS flag violently broke up a legally permitted pro-Israel rally by a Christian group in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday — leading local police to cancel the rally instead of protecting the Christians from the anti-Israel mob.
Three senior South African government officials told Reuters on Thursday that South Africa will miss its climate change targets under the Paris Agreement because shutting down the country’s eight coal-fired power plants would cause a massive energy crisis.
South Africa, a country now synonymous with crime, electricity shortages, inequality, human rights abuses, and (occasionally) a rugby championship, has pulled its ambassador from Israel as it accuses the Jewish state of “genocide” against Hamas terrorists.
South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has been paying hefty monthly allowances to almost 158,000 “ghost students” who do not actually exist, according to a forensic probe described in a News24 report on Monday.
The government of South Africa on Monday asked the United Nations to deploy troops in Gaza to protect Palestinian civilians.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa posted a video Saturday of a speech he delivered to a rally in support of Palestinians in the wake of a devastating terrorist attack by Hamas that saw 1,300 Israelis murdered, 3,600 wounded, and 100-200 kidnapped.