Below are letters from our Media Team members in response to ant-Israel letters in the Argus. Whether our letters get printed or not we will continue to write them and send them to the editor as we speak up for truth and stand up for Israel. Vawda’s letter riddled with lies Hiding behind the Media…
Category: Opinions
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This month the SA chapter of “Zionism Equals Apartheid” gang is girding its loins to play its role in delegitimising Israel. Their crocodile tears as they invoke the plight of the Palestinians carries no weight against the backdrop of the slaughter going on today in the Middle East and North and East Africa, a human…
A response to Mervyn Bennum’s letter in the Weekend Argus
Weekend Argus Editor Dear Sir Mervyn Bennun exercise in sophistry (Sunday Views April 8, Apartheid defences used) is filled with specious reasoning and fallacious argument with the intention of deceiving, and fools nobody but those who wish to be fooled. His stigmatising of Israel is not new and is indeed is the cornerstone of the…
An Open Letter To Mayor Patricia De Lille
We have heard and read many pronouncements from you dealing with our current water crisis, so I know that the matter is of deep concern to you, as it is to most of your constituents. I should appreciate it if you could clarify the following: In researching South Africa’s drought and the Cape’s water crisis I…
MRN Media Statement 15 July 2017
The Editor Saturday Argus Dear Sir The 140,000 Druze living in Israel, thousands of whom belong to Druze Zionist movements, are Arabic-speaking citizens of Israel, an offshoot of several monotheistic and Abrahamic religions, and serve in the Israeli Defence Forces just as most citizens do in Israel. Members of the community have attained top positions…
Mr Maimane sees the reality of Israel for himself
South African Zionist Federation’s statement on Mmusi Maimane’s visit to Israel The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) would like to commend Mr. Mmusi Maimane the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) for his willingness to visit Israel. We hope that Mr Maimane’s experience and engagement with leadership in the Middle East will give him the…
A response to SAJFP: What lies beneath Lubya
ijiojThis piece in response to the latest antics of South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) which appeared in the Times of Israel on 3 September 2016 was written by SA-born, Israeli-based HARRIS ZVI GREEN – a founding member of Truth be Told, an organisation engaged in public diplomacy on behalf of Israel. I…
BDS: A threat to the entire Middle East
ijiojThis piece on the BDS movement by ABED ALMAALA – a member of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition – appeared in the Israel Hayom newsletter on Tuesday 6 September 2016. As a Jordanian politician, I feel obligated to speak out against the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and its effect on the Middle East and the…
What SA could learn from Israel
OPINION: Mike Berger says SA is lagging far behind Israel – the state that ANC activists love to hate… On the 13 June Faiez Jacobs (Secretary for the ANC, Western Cape) published an unusually cynical letter (DA seems to be dependent on funds from Israel) in the Cape Times, even for the infallibly low-scoring ANC.…
Shielding Israel from local hate speech
SAZF Cape Council’s Ben Levitas responds to Media Review Network’s latest anti-Semitic torrent Israel-hater Ayeesha J. Soni recently wrote an opinion piece for South Africa’s Mail and Guardian newspaper in which she compares Israel to Hitler. Herewith our response: There is no nation more qualified to chair the United Nations “Sixth Legal Committee” than Israel. Israel has…