“For Jews, this country no longer feels like a safe space or ‘home,’” writes Howard Sackstein of the SA Jewish Report after South Africa's anti-Israel activity during the Hamas war.
The new judge has previously claimed that critics of Israel are labeled antisemites "to intimidate and discredit them."
INSTEAD OF giving a platform to South Africa’s detached accusations, the ICJ could have called for a broader effort by the Red Cross to reach the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
The international legal proceedings against Israel are part of an ongoing campaign led by the Palestinian Authority to turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a global one.
It might seem like a huge jump from being an OB/GYN to a successful entrepreneur to an epoxy craftsman, but Alvin Schamroth sees each as expressing a different part of himself.
"It is the first time in these chambers that someone's religion or expression of their religion is being questioned. Can I ask that we tread cautiously?"
South Africa has for decades been an advocate for the Palestinian cause, comparing the plight of Palestinians to that of Black South Africans under apartheid.
Rabbi Goldstein, after ICJ ruling, pledges to hold banks accountable for funding Hamas, urges global Jewish support for Israel's self-defense and combating antisemitism.
'We stand tall and strong with Israel and oppose the aggression of the ANC government against the Jewish state,' Warren Goldstein said. 'The ANC is not the people of South Africa.'
At least 90 members of Knesset must support Cassif's expulsion to proceed to a vote. The Knesset has never before impeached a fellow member.