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By Sõzarn Barday Despite South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994, apartheid has quietly entrenched itself within the private sphere. While the responsibility of managing the state lies in public hands, real power increasingly resides in private institutions and markets. Today, privilege is governed by price. The market now sets the boundaries of opportunity. Financial barriers have replaced legal ones as instruments of exclusion. Something as simple as an application form is often accompanied by a fee — a form of economic regulation. These financial mechanisms now perform the same function once carried out by explicitly racist laws. Surcharges, income…

South African social media personality Pieter Kriel. Image: X / @pieterkrielorg By Gillian Schutte Pieter Kriel, the 21-year-old South African TikTok figure whose rise has been built on rapid-fire ChatGPT slogans about whiteness and Black pain, now saunters around the edges of Palestine, a land of grief, siege, and survival, setting the scene for his latest TikTok performance. From a cushioned chair in a Bethlehem hotel, he posted to his followers: “Bethlehem is a sacred cage where the world comes to worship a baby born under empire, yet ignores the children growing up under occupation.” This is not OK. That…

By Jamal Kanj Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The genocide in Gaza and Israel’s unrestrained colonial and imperial arrogance have reached a point beyond redemption. Benjamin Netanyahu’s endless wars now bleed into Syria, attacking the heart of Damascus with absolute impunity. Meanwhile, the United States, supposedly the world’s leading superpower, remains tragically mired in subservience to successive Israeli governments, often sacrificing core American values and international law. Nowhere has this dynamic been clearer than in Gaza over the past 21 months. Starting with former President Joe Biden, alongside his Israeli-first Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who had repeatedly enabled Netanyahu’s most extremist and racist tendencies.…

A Palestinian girl reacts as she asks for food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, 7 July 2025 (Reuters) By Soumaya Ghannoushi Netanyahu was allowed to turn food into leverage and treat the relief of a besieged population as a prize to be bartered. This is not just immoral or illegal, it is obscene Razan Abu Zaher died starving. She was four years old. She died on the floor of a collapsing hospital, her tiny ribs rising and falling like wings too fragile to lift. Her body had no fat left to burn. Her eyes had sunken.…

By Iqbal Jassat  The world is aghast with Israel’s ongoing genocide in the besieged Gaza as it witnesses massacres and savage killings of Palestinians – in real time around the clock. Yet it seems the only person not affected by the shock and horror of Israel’s relentless carpet bombings, drone attacks and what is described as scorched-earth tactics, is Peter Bruce. That he has dared to advocate resetting of relations with Israel, displays an utter disregard for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank caused by the Netanyahu regime’s deliberate policy of starvation, ethnic-cleansing and systematic extermination.…

by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army has committed one of its most heinous massacres against starving civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in northern Gaza. According to Euro-Med Monitor field documentation, Israeli forces killed 67 people and injured dozens more today. The occupation army ordered the civilians to approach aid trucks with their hands raised—a clear sign of surrender—and then opened fire on them without provocation. Euro-Med Monitor’s team documented Israeli soldiers opening fire atcivilians as they neared the route used by aid trucks north of Gaza City. This deliberate killing, committed without any military necessity, reflects an unprecedented level of brutality and constitutes a clear act of genocide aimed at eliminating the Palestinian population through a series of crimes including intentional killings,…

Protestors rally outside the White House during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC, on 7 July 2025 (Brendan Smialowski/AFP) By Sami Al-Arian As US global dominance wanes and China advances a multipolar world order, Washington’s unconditional support for Israel is accelerating its strategic decline The rivalry between the United States and China has emerged as the defining feature of 21st-century geopolitics. As American global dominance frays after three decades of unipolarity, China’s steady rise as an economic, military and diplomatic soft power signals a tectonic shift in the global order. At the same time, the US continues to entangle itself in regional struggles – particularly…

By Iqbal Jassat  Palestine’s foremost historian Salman Abu Sitta, renowned for his cartographic work as well as his compelling studies on Palestinian Right of Return, has sketched a brief overview of Gaza’s past and his prognosis of the genocidaires’ ultimate goal. Born in 1937 in Palestine and an engineer by profession, Prof Abu Sitta has authored numerous books, including The Atlas of Palestine, 1917-1966 (2010). As scholar and academic, his energetic activism in pursuit of Palestinian rights, has earned him enormous respect. His memoir, Mapping My Return, offers a personal account of Al Nakba in southern Palestine. A former member of the Palestine National…

The First Jewish Anti-Zionist Conference in Vienna. (Photo: via website) By Ramzy Baroud It’s becoming clear that Zionism is finally being undone, primarily by Gaza and the sumud of the Palestinians, but also by international solidarity, a large part of which has always been, and now increasingly is, expressed by anti-Zionist Jews. Future historians, remember this place and date: Vienna, June 13-15, 2025. This was when hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews, joined by Palestinians and other allies, gathered for the first ‘Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress.’ This gathering stands in stark contrast to the First Zionist Congress, held 128 years prior, from August 29-31, 1897, near Vienna in…

Displaced Palestinian amputee Mervat al-Bassiouny shelters inside a building at the Islamic University of Gaza, from which she graduated and which was destroyed by the Israeli army in Gaza City on April 11, 2025 [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters] By Ayman Sobh, Omar Milad and Asad Asaad Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist. Displaced Palestinian amputee Mervat al-Bassiouny shelters inside a building at the Islamic University of Gaza, from which she graduated and which was destroyed by the Israeli army in Gaza City on April 11, 2025 [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters] We, the presidents of Gaza’s three non-profit universities— Al-Aqsa University,…