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Who are the genocidal war criminals?

August 17, 2025

The genocide in Gaza , the worst holocaust the world has suffered since the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, continues. The evidence, relating to Gaza, and despite no formal ruling from the International Court of Justice, is clear in the action, words, orders and video clips of the results of the onslaught: […]

The Guernica of Israel’s war of extermination

July 13, 2025

Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. We now have a modern filmed version from Gaza. This report by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, July 13, 2025 First, you hear the screams, the kind that makes your blood run cold. The camera […]

Pro army propaganda and true journalism

June 5, 2025

The headline is mine and this is part of an attempt to reveal — and encourage — honest journalism, that continues to survive in an increasingly fascist state of Israel. What follows is the latest op-ed item by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, Jun 4, 2025 Two pictures and a conclusion: The editor of the Presspectiva […]

‘Annihilating Hamas’ = Destroying Gaza

May 15, 2025

Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, May 11, 2025, highlights the dominant views in Israel and the reality that continues to be ignored. Everyone is in favor of destroying Hamas. Who would oppose this? No one would. Extremists want it to happen before the hostages are released, and the moderates say: Let’s release the hostages first […]

Supporting honest journalism in israel

March 26, 2025

This is the lead editorial in the Haaretz newspaper in Israel this week. It is one indication of the existence of genuine journalists in an authoritarian and racist state. They deserve the support of principled journalists and democrats everywhere. Three weeks ago, Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian activist and resident of the West Bank town of […]

Israeli media conceals Gaza’s horrors

March 20, 2025

This is the latest opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. It is by Gideon Levy who shows, time and again, that there are still a few brave journalists in the Zionist state who adhere to the principles of journalism. Read and learn. Mar 20, 2025 To the list of crimes, one must now add […]

Hairybacks, ‘souties’ & an accidental ANC member

July 13, 2020

Available online at Daily Maverick: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-13-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-hairybacks-soutpiele-and-an-accidental-member-of-the-anc/amp/ Reflections of a wayward boy (4) My life changed during that single day in early 1961 when I returned to the Germiston Advocate newspaper office after attending a Group Areas Board hearing and making my first visit to a township where I met and interviewed people who were about […]

Journalism is more than ‘just a job’

January 22, 2020

With the explosion of fake news, courtesy of social media, accompanied by mounting attacks, verbal and physical, against journalists, it may be useful to remember what the role of journalists — not bots and trolls — should be and that ethical journalism still survives. In this context, in South Africa, it is worth remembering how journalism (the work of journalists) brought to light the whole disgusting state capture venture.