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2026: Remembering Sharpeville

March 19, 2026

(Available for free publication, 21/03/2026) Today , March 21, Human Right Day, we remember the 1960 massacre at Sharpeville. As we do so, let us demolish one myth and recall also the vital role played by principled journalists at the time. The myth is that 69 people died and several were injured. The confirmed reality: […]

Zionism, anti-Semitism and eugenics

March 18, 2026

The conflation of the religio-nationalist ideology of Zionism not only with Judaism and the nation state of Israel, but also with antisemitism, continues to be widely promoted. Yet the terminology and the manner of its use grew out of the pseudoscientific racism that flourished in the 19th Century. This came in response to the humanist […]

Give Ambassador Bozell the boot

March 16, 2026

It is exactly a year since South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, was ordered out of the country for apparently having expressed criticism of President Donald Trump. According to US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, Rasool is “a race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump. As a result he had to go. […]

So emerges Zionazism in 2026

January 17, 2026

The obviously increasing cognitive dissonance — the dementia — evident in President Donald Trump and his current erratic focus on Venezuela, Greenland, Iran and blatant lies about the state of the US economy have rather distracted much media attention form Israel, Gaza and, especially the occupied West Bank of Palestine. But in Gaza now, children […]

From Zionism to fascism – and beyond

October 31, 2025

The poison of nationalism, in certain conditions, mutates quite quickly into authoritarianism and to fascism, an ideology that distils that poison into a form of ethnic/religious/racial superiority. In its most advanced form, fascism, a spawn of nationalism, becomes genocidal nazism. A classic examples, sponsored by global political powers that support the nationalist creed, is the […]

The genocidal settler general

August 28, 2025

For every humanitarian and concerned individual, the focus is, for obvious reasons, on the horrors that continue to unfold in Gaza, a charnel house justifiably dubbed “Israel’s Auschwitz. But the brutishly vile motivation behind the carnage in Gaza applies elsewhere as well, and no more so than in the central military region including the West […]

The only solutions to genocide & statehood

August 3, 2025

European recognition of Palestine is a hollow gesture that lets Israel off the hook. Without sanctions to stop the slaughter in Gaza, it’s not diplomacy – it’s complicity writes Gideon Levy in his latest (August 3, 2025) column in Haaretz International recognition of a Palestinian state rewards Israel, which should be thanking each and every […]

The Disgrace of Deliberate Starvation

July 25, 2025

To my mind, this is an important example of some honest, journalistic commentary that continues to survive in a society that continues, in the 21st Century, to behave as did those Polish and German citizens who denied knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust. — Terry Bell By Gideon Levy, July 24, 2025 Israel’s plan for the […]