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The pathological hatred Trump inspires on the left and the quasi-religious devotion he commands on the right reflect tensions within American democratic culture. File Photo

Selective outrage: Can Zionists be challenged for being anti-Semitic?

The New York Times seems to believe Islamophobia cancels out anti-Semitism as it downplays Trump’s remarks and publishes a racist piece

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
A city employee cleans the “Wall of the Righteous” (Mur des Justes) stamped with red hand graffiti outside the Shoah memorial in Paris, on May 14, 2024. The monument was vandalised overnight, with the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) denouncing the act as antisemitic. (Photo by Antonin UTZ / AFP)

UNESCO warns that AI technology risks spreading Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism

The organisation’s report highlighted instances where hackers had rigged chatbots to spread Nazi ideology

  • Des Erasmus
3 min read
A protester carries a placard during a gathering by relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants, in front of the Defence Ministry in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on March 30, 2024. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Those who hold the values of humanity and the rule of law should reject the Hamas narrative

Spreading the Hamas narrative because of the reactive need to attach to a struggle is akin to becoming the propaganda arm of a recognised terrorist network

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read
Too controversial, won’t see: TLDR (2017) actors (top) Tenderlove, Duduzile Dlamini, Regina High, Jenny and Zoe Black, and (above) Gabbi, Emmah, Jowi, Connie and Nosipho ‘Provocative’ Vidima appear in the video installation by Candice Breitz (right), which has summarily been cancelled in Germany. Image stills: Goodman Gallery. Photo: Till Cremer

The complex art of the kibosh

South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped

  • Umamah Bakharia
8 min read
People attending a demonstration to show solidarity with Israel and against anti-semitism hold up photographs of hostages taken by Hamas on October 22, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people attended the event in front of the Brandenburg Gate as the conflict between Hamas and Israel continues to range following the deadly October 7 incursions by Hamas fighters from Gaza into Israel. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Listen carefully for the echoes of anti-Semitism

History has taught us that Jews can easily become potential targets of violent retaliation

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read