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Rachel Blevins in conversation with lawyer Daniel Kovalik and Dr. Ramzy Baroud. (Photo: Youtube Thumbnail) By Romana Rubeo The Palestine Chronicle is battling a politically motivated US lawsuit, a case its editor and lawyer warn threatens press freedom and independent Palestinian journalism. The Palestine Chronicle is fighting what its editor and legal team describe as a baseless and politically motivated lawsuit linking the outlet to the kidnapping of Israeli hostages in Gaza. The case centers on Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestinian journalist killed along with his wife, father, and neighbors during an Israeli raid in central Gaza in June 2024. The operation,…

By Dr Farhin Delawala Calls for a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state are being heard worldwide once more. As if drawing lines on paper will end decades of dispossession, world leaders at the UN continue to talk about reinstating the “two-state solution.” However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that this vision is not just unrealistic but also unjust. Certainly, the call to go back to the 1967 borders is not something that can be revived given the current facts on the ground. The “two states” rhetoric has turned into a cruel mirage and painful fantasy for the Palestinians. Peace was…

Journalists and activists during the 96 weekly protest in support of Palestine at St. George’s Cathedral, in Cape Town, on Wednesday, August 13. Image: Fouzia Van Der Fort By Zukiswa Wanner and Marc Wegerif On November 21, 2023, our elected representatives in the Parliament of South Africa voted by 248 to 91 (73% in favour), to suspend diplomatic ties with Israel and shut their embassy in Pretoria. On December 29, 2023, almost 20 months ago, the government of South Africa brought a case of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Since then the genocidal actions of the Israeli…

Al-Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif reports near the Arab Ahli (Baptist) Hospital in Gaza City on October 10, 2024. The Israeli military acknowledged in a statement targeting correspondent Anas al-Sharif, accusing him of being a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas. Image: AFP  by Jamal Kanj After sealing Gaza off from international reporters and blocking the world’s eyes from its genocide, Israel has moved to the next phase of its blackout strategy: hunting down Palestinian journalists inside Gaza. The goal is obvious: silence the last independent witnesses so that the genocide and starvation of an entire people proceed unseen, unrecorded, and unchecked by the…

By Iqbal Jassat Mathatha Tsedu’s credentials as a principled journalist are beyond reproach. As a doyen of the craft, he has for decades fought against racism in the media and the marginalisation of black journalists.  Unafraid to speak truth to power, has not been a mere cliché for Tsedu, but an expression of his relentless pursuit of justice. On Palestine, he recently endorsed the view of the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Amir Mottley who said that “Principle only means something when it is inconvenient to stand by it”. Tsedu underpinned this when he wrote that South Africa’s support for…

MEDIA STATEMENT                                                                                                              We as journalists and media workers in South Africa stand steadfast against Israel’s brutal murders of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. With immense grief, we learned that Israel killed six media workers in a targeted attack on the tent in which they sheltered in…

Image: AFP University of Pretoria Staff For Palestine (UPS4Palestine)| British-Cypriot coach Louis Allan, 33, sits atop an olive tree on a main road in Nicosia on May 7, 2025, as he continues a week-long silent sit-in and hunger strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and calling for an end to the war between Israel and Hamas. As an academic collective from the University of Pretoria, we offer the following reflections on the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as a contribution to a growing number of South African academic voices against the genocide. The increased horrors faced by the…

BY THE Hind Rajab Foundation  Anas Al Sharif and his murdered colleagues (Photo credits mediapart) By any measure, Anas Al-Sharif should still be alive. On the morning of 10 August 2025, the 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent was doing what he had done since the first days of the Gaza onslaught—reporting from the frontlines, armed only with a camera and a press vest. Outside the main gate of Al Shifa Hospital, in one of the last corners of northern Gaza where journalists could still work, Al-Sharif was filing footage of bombardments that shook the streets around him. Moments later, a missile struck the tent where…

By HASSEN LORGAT Hassen Lorgat has worked in the trade union movement, civic associations, and anti-Apartheid sports movement led by the South African Council on Sports (SACOS). He is active with the SA BDS Coalition and is currently the manager of Policy and Advocacy for the Bench Marks Foundation. (Photo: Marta Garrich) ‘The three media houses worked in concert to undermine our democracy. It was not a mistake. It was a conspiracy to undermine the readers and the public at large.’ Recent media reporting clearly demonstrates that South Africans are opposed to the bribing, cajoling and influencing of journalists. Whether…

By Dr Ramzy Baroud A large poster depicting Saudi Arabia, Syria, Oman, and Lebanon leaders alongside U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is placed on a billboard to highlighting the push for diplomatic relations in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 26, 2025. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of barbarity, sustained by an international conspiracy of moral inertia and silence, will not be relegated to history as just another “conflict” or a mere tragedy. The Gaza genocide is a catalyst for major events to come.…