Iqbal Jassat

A Circus Where Whip Is Wielded by Big Five

Saturday 28-September-2019

The annual gathering of global leaders at the United Nations has yet again lit up New York’s elite hotels and busy thoroughfares.

American Abandonment of Palestine: A Challenge to South Africa

Friday 26-July-2019

Is South Africa among the countries standing aside as the world is confronted with illegal moves by the Trump Administration to facilitate the complete annihilation of Palestine by Israel?

South Africa’s Clover Sellout to Apartheid Israel Faces Resistance

Tuesday 12-February-2019

Last week Boycott Divestment Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS-SA) announced it would fight a proposed offer by Central Bottling Company the Israeli bottler of Coca Cola to buy Clover a South African dairy company.

Palestinian Solidarity: Is South Africa in the Driver’s Seat?

Friday 14-December-2018

Recent events in South Africa have had a profoundly positive impact on Palestine.

Great March of Return: a New Defiance Campaign

Sunday 1-April-2018

In a remarkably fresh approach in resistance to Israel’s seven decades of colonialism Palestinians have geared up to mobilize en masse in what has been dubbed as Great March of Return.

Modi’s ‘De-hyphenated’ Policy on Palestine

Thursday 15-February-2018

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brief stopover in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank has been hailed by parts of India’s media as “historic”.

SA has a moral duty to clip the wings of Israeli settlement growth

Wednesday 11-October-2017

The approval of thousands more housing units in Israel’s illegal colony-settlements across the occupied West Bank is the latest undertaking by the country’s extreme right-wing regime led by war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

India/Israel Axis of Colonial Occupation Will Fail

Monday 10-July-2017

Observers and analysts of political trends in India since the defeat of the Congress Party at the hands of an extreme rightwing movement the BJP will not be surprised by recent turn of events related to Israel.

Eloquence of Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

Tuesday 2-May-2017

As global attention is drawn to Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes it is quite likely that the colonial-era conditions under which they have been jailed by Israel will come into sharp focus.

A Tale of Two Jubilees

Thursday 20-April-2017

“A state that celebrates 50 years of occupation is a state whose sense of direction has been lost its ability to distinguish good from evil impaired” writes Haaretz correspondent Gideon Levy in his latest oped titled “Our Nakba”.