Tag: antisemitism

‘When all hell breaks loose, heaven awaits’: reflections on Holocaust book, street worship

Gateway News UK Correspondent Charles Gardner celebrates the blessing of pro-Israel worship on the streets of Amsterdam, decades after the wartime persecution of the city’s Jewish residents remembered in a book by a Holocaust survivor While hate-filled demonstrators call for Israel’s destruction in London and elsewhere, the streets of Amsterdam […]

‘Don’t mention the war!’ — SA Churches miss Gospel opportunity in comedy of errors

By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent It’s one of the most well-known lines from one of the best-loved British television comedies of all time – the 1970s series of Fawlty Towers featuring the hapless Basil Fawlty (played by John Cleese) running a shambles of a seaside hotel. Everything always went wrong, […]

SA doesn’t get it’s way at ICJ but ‘insulting’ ruling poses ‘dangerous’ public image problem for Israel

Last Friday the International Court of Justice rejected the South African government’s request to explicitly order a ceasefire in the Gaza war on the grounds of genocide — although the SA government apparently interprets the ruling as effectively ordering Israel to suspend its war. The ICJ did accept the possibility […]

Cricket SA and ICC complicit in ‘sinister discriminatory agenda’, says SAJBD

It was not “security threats” but “plain antisemitsm” that led Cricket SA (CSA) to “arbitrarily” strip David Teeger of his captaincy of the Under19 Protea squad, said the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in a statement released after a meeting with CSA today. During the meeting CSA “categorically failed […]