• Zukiswa Wanner

South African writer, publisher and curator Zukiswa Wanner explains why she is surrendering her 2020 Goethe Medaille.

• Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee

South Africa’s Wits University likes to vaunt its anti-apartheid credentials. So why is it cozy with Israel and Zionism?

• Niamh Ní Bhriain

The struggle of the Palestinian people has become central in the global movement against US imperialism.

• Mohammed Elnaiem

It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.

• Maher Mezahi

Palestine solidarity was widespread at the 2023 AFCON in Côte d'Ivoire, but the tournament's security apparatus quietly suppressed it.

• Juan Acevedo-Ossa

South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding even the great powers in shaping global moral discourse.

• Sohela Surajpal
• Justin Winchester

South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to declare that in its war against Gaza, Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.

• Mona Hakimi

Malawi’s decision to send more than than 200 people to work on Israel’s farms sets a precedent for other African leaders to act with the same apathy.

• Yahya Sseremba

Zionism is an extreme, but by no means exceptional, manifestation of the divisive logic of the nation-state.

• Khanya Mtshali

The release of 'Renaissance' in Israel has spelled the end of informed indifference when it comes to Beyoncé and other stars who choose to do business with the apartheid regime.

• Anthony Fish Hodgson

In 1987, a band led by a group of South African Jewish brothers released a song against apartheid repression. Today, its lyrics speak to conditions in Palestine as well.

• Steven Friedman

It is often imagined that world opinion was always united in its opposition to apartheid in South Africa—it wasn’t. Today, global indifference to Palestine is changing too.

• Hamza Hamouchene

Choosing to focus on denouncing Palestinian violence is akin to asking them to passively accept their fate—to die quietly and not resist.

• Ilham Rawoot

Although the South African government is one of the most vocal supporters of the Palestinian cause, its actions tell a different story.

• Khalid Albaih

As the slaughter continues unabated in Gaza, it is abundantly clear that both the present and history are often written by the victors.

• Rasna Warah

Israel’s assault on Gaza has shown, once again, that the UN Security Council is ineffective when it comes to preventing wars and protecting the human rights of all people.

• Enver Motala

Israel’s impugnity in Gaza and the West Bank is enabled not only by its backers in the West, but by the widespread indifference of large parts of society.

• Bruno Huberman
• Sabrina Fernandes

Imagining and demanding the decolonization of Palestine means acting to decolonize all the colonial states in the world, from Brazil to Australia, including the USA and Chile.

• Savo Heleta

South Africans have to demand an academic boycott of Israel, in the same way much of the Global South boycotted apartheid South Africa’s universities.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

American universities are trying to silence anyone who speaks up against Israel’s occupation and bombardment of Gaza.