David Robert Lewis

This is the problem. Every time you try to talk honestly about the role of Islamism in stoking anti-semitism, you get called racist or divisive. But we will not solve the problems we have as a country if we cannot name them.

The religion of peace or pieces????

Who is this lady?? She deserves 2 cows✨👌

The myth that progressive activists represent "the right side of history" theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

I bloody love @KemiBadenoch - she is clear, direct, takes no shit. Points out the double standards. 🔥

Let’s face it. Support of Zionism really is just Islamophobia.

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Nations are not races. Golda Meir was a Palestinian.

"That synagogue has been turned into a mosque so I don't know why someone would petrol bomb it." The antisemitism crisis in a nutshell

Yes, this is exactly how the 1930s started.

Nissan invests R750m in Egypt. .. BEE is chasing business away.

Calling Israel “racist” while supporting the pro Palestine movement is wild. It’s true what they say. Every accusation against Israel is a confession.

@NolwAzi_Tusini You more than welcome. I have a repository for the case material. Thus far, just the case which started it, where the respondent proceeded to trash the Commission & Report, upheld by a corrupt official in 2010. I need to continue digitizing . medialternatives.com/case

@ubuntupunk Yeah? Please direct me to case files would love to read it.

The TRC process remains incomplete, 30 years later.

It should not be illegal to say "from the river to the sea."

@owenjonesjourno Its like saying the US expressed genocidal intent in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour. Who you kidding? Are you really trying to make out some case that Israel attacked Gaza, as UNHRC Navi Pillay does? The ground offensive began weeks later. youtube.com/watch?v=rn4BxU…

There was no period "between October 7 and the beginning of Israel's military campaign." It began immediately! Hundreds were killed in Gaza in the first 24 hours. 7,326 Palestinians were killed by the time Israel's ground campaign began - likely a significant underestimate. Furthermore, Israel's political and military leaders made clear their genocidal intent immediately. There were announcements of a total siege, promises to wipe Gaza out (which were executed) and constant denunciations of the civilian population as having collective guilt - and thus receiving collective punishment. What Simon Schama is doing here is smearing the vast majority who spoke out and protested from the start. We opposed all war crimes. We had a moral consistency that Israel's cheerleaders do not. The vast majority of us opposed the slaughter of Palestinians which began IMMEDIATELY - and the commitments by Israel to commit heinous war crimes and indeed genocide, which it then did. Obviously antisemitism is unacceptable and there is no excuse for it. Making that case is not helped by Israel's cheerleaders constantly conflating antisemitism with opposition to Israel's crimes. This trope that protests about the plight of Palestinians began before "Israel's military campaign" is a racist trope. Palestinian civilians were being slaughtered immediately. This trope treats Palestinian life as being meaningless. Nobody would make such an argument if huge numbers of people whose lives were judged to have meaning were being slaughtered.

@AdarWeinreb Like the late Dennis Brutus, I don't support countries or people as such, I support ideas. Primary idea at stake here is that of secularism. Given a choice of being hostage to a secular democracy, & hostage of a theocracy, I choose secularism, I thus support Israel by default.

I'm often asked if I identify as a Zionist or an anti-Zionist. The truth is, I don’t identify as either. I don’t believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel should be dismantled. I don’t believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel needs to exist. I believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel does not have the right to oppress another people. And that between the river and the sea, the rights of all people must be protected. If Israel can transform itself to fit this equation, it should continue to exist. If it can’t, then it shouldn’t.

Mandela in his biography Long Walk to Freedom credits Menachem Begin with inspiring the formation of MK. After the chilling fallout following the Treason Trial, the relationship thawed somewhat with the result that Vorster paid a state visit.

@zwelitshazwe Believe me, I watched the entire inauguration. Neither Arafat, nor Castro were on the podium with Mandela. As you can see, Clinton was a lot more prominent.

They were never on the "sidelines" that day, as you suggest - go look up the SA history archive, read up a bit, the truth will soon be clear...