Within a couple of weeks in late October and early November, South Africa, the United States of America and Israel will be holding some pretty significant elections. We have our…

Every commemoration begins with a choice. We choose whether to remember an event as a statistic, a political argument or a collection of human lives. On this third anniversary of…

You really have to feel at least a little sorry for Ed Sheeran. He may well have known that Macklemore would use his stage as a “Free Palestine” rally, but it’s hard to imagine…

Last week's attempt to kill innocent Israelis failed when an Omani co-pilot tried to hijack a plane. This happened a week before October 7. It's clear to me that it was…

The prospect of Benjamin Netanyahu securing a record seventh term as Israel's prime minister, especially in coalition with the country's most overtly far-right parties,…

Israel will, this year on October 7, mark the third anniversary of the deadly and brutal cross-border surprise attack by Hamas, which left 1,200 people dead, 250 abducted and taken…

South Africans rarely think of foreign policy as a kitchen-table issue. It feels like something diplomats discuss in Pretoria's marbled corridors, far removed from…