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editorial
IMRAAN COOVADIA
Living with sorcerers
ZEINAB SHAATH
The Urgent Call of Palestine
ALLAN BOESAK
“HOW LONG FOR PALESTINE?”
MAKHOSINI MGITYWA
The Crux of the Matter
MALAIKA MAHLATSI
On the genocide in Palestine and the death of academic freedom and democracy in Western universities
BRANKO MARCETIC
Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever
CHRIS HEDGES
American Sadism
ARYAN KAGANOF
On Power and Powerlessness: Genocide in Gaza Through the Lens of Afropessimism and Decay Studies
MICHAEL SFARD
We Israelis Are Part of a Mafia Crime Family. It's Our Job to Fight Against It From Within
Theme Gaza
ZEENAT ADAM
Gaza and the Graveyard of Excuses
MAHMOUD AL SHABRAWI
Writing Between Fear and Survival
GOODENOUGH MASHEGO
Why I can’t condemn October 7
GARTH ERASMUS
Lamentations for GAZA
SALIM VALLY and ROSHAN DADOO
Africa’s strong bonds to Palestine
ZUKISWA WANNER
A Common Humanity
MUHAMMAD OMARUDDIN (DON MATTERA)
A Song for Palestine
TSHEPO MADLINGOZI
Ilizwe Lifile/Nakba: Le-fatshe & Crises of Constitution in (Neo)Settler Colonies
SINDRE BANGSTAD
Palestine, Israel and academic freedom in South Africa
GWEN ANSELL
Resistance music – a mirror reflecting truth; a hammer forging solidarity
FMFP (FREE MUSIC FREE PALESTINE)
Listening as an anti-colonial way of engaging
ATIYYAH KHAN
A movement against silencing: What the genocide in Palestine has taught us about journalism
ASHRAF HENDRICKS
Visual Memoirs of Solidarity with Palestine in Cape Town
ATIYYAH KHAN
GAZA: Where wearing a PRESS vest is a death sentence
VISUAL INTIFADA
NARRATIVE REPAIR
SHARI MALULEKE
A Prayer to the Olive Tree
THANDI GAMEDZE
Jesus of Occupied Palestine
NATHI NGUBANE
MALCOLM X IN GAZA
MARIAM JOOMA ÇARIKCI
The dark side of the rainbow: How Apartheid South Africa and Zionism found comfort in post-94 rhetoric
CRAIG MOKHIBER
The ICJ finds that BDS is not merely a right, but an obligation
ROSHAN DADOO
South African coal fuels a genocide: BOYCOTT GLENCORE NOW
IMĀN ZANELE OMAR
From the ground
DEAN HUTTON
Who would you be under Apartheid?
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SÍONA O’CONNELL
Keys to Nowhere
SAMAR HUSSAINI
The Palette of Tradition and other, earlier works
SLOVO MAMPHAGA
Chronology of the Now
DEON MAAS
The Resistance
OLU OGUIBE
A Brief Statement on Art and Genocide
CANDICE BREITZ
8 may 2025 Berlin
ADLI YACUBI
A Moment Is On Its Way
TRACEY ROSE
If Hitler Was A Girl Who Went To Art School (2024-2025)
borborygmus
CHARLES LEONARD
Zeinab Shaath : the famous Teta
THE ALDANO COLLECTIVE
Withold
DIMA ORSHO
Excerpts from Half Moon, a film by Frank Scheffer
GARTH ERASMUS
Where is God?
LOWKEY FEATURING MAI KHALIL
Palestine Will Never Die
CHRIS THURMAN
Intertexts for Gaza (or, Thirteen ways of looking past a genocide)
KEENAN AHRENDS
The Wandering Dancer
NATHAN TRANTRAAL
‘D’ is vi destruction
INSURRECTIONS ENSEMBLE
Let Me Lie To You
RODRIGO KARMY BOLTON
Palestine’s Lessons for the Left: Theses for a Poetics of the Earth
MARYAM ABBASI
Drums, Incense, and the Unseen
frictions
HIBA ABU NADA
Not Just Passing
NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF
The Visible and the Unspeakable (For Mahmoud Khalil)
MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO
Before You Kill Them
ABIGAIL GEORGE
4 Struggle Songs for Palestine
MIKE VAN GRAAN
4 Poems for Gaza
EUGENE SKEEF
To The Demise of War Mongers (a suite for the people of GAZA).
ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ
Gaza: two poems
MALIKA LUEEN NDLOVU
At the end of a thread, holding my breath, beading
NGOMA HILL
From the River to the Sea
JESÚS SEPÚLVEDA
Gaza 2024
ARYAN KAGANOF
GAZA (body double)
VONANI BILA
Under Rubble
JACKSON MAC LOWE
Social Significance
FRANK MEINTJIES
5 poems from A Place to night in
DIANA FERRUS
Burdened man
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FINN DANIELS-YEOMANS
‘If Cannes did not want to go to Gaza, Gaza had to go to Cannes’: Institutional Censorship at Film Festivals post-October 7.
FRANK MEINTJIES
Abigail George’s SONGS FOR PALESTINE - "struggle poems" in an age of livestreamed genocicde
PHILLIPPA YAA DE VILLIERS
ukuphelezela and Nida Younis’ Two Bodies/Zwei Korper
RUTH MARGALIT
Writing the Nakba in Hebrew
NATHAN TRANTRAAL
Ons is gevangenes van dit wat ons liefhet: Magmoed Darwiesj gedigte in Afrikaans
HEIN WILLEMSE
Frank Meintjies: a mature poet, intellectually astute with a refined social, political and ecological consciousness
M. SOGA MLANDU
'Tell Them I Am Dead’: Sithembele Isaac Xhegwana’s Dark Lines of History
NIKLAS ZIMMER
Détourning the cut
ekaya
LYNTHIA JULIUS
I believe the children for the future
JENNIFER KESTIS FERGUSON
Nikita
CHERYL DAMON
No Ordinary Rage
SKHUMBUZO PHAKATHI
Don’t forget Phila Ndwandwe
INGRID ORIT HURWITZ
SHATTERED
STEVEN ROBINS
The blindspots of Zionist history and the ‘ancient scripts’ of primordial Jewish victimhood
LIESL JOBSON
Sorrowful Mysteries
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Towards a Preliminary Archaeology of herri
off the record
STEPHEN CLINGMAN
The Voices in My Head: Reflections on South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Gaza
ANNI KANAFANI
Ghassan Kanafani
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STEVEN ROBINS
Re-reading Jabotinsky’s The Iron Wall in the time of genocide in Gaza.
JANNIKE BERGH in conversation with HAIDAR EID
Even Ghosts Weep in Gaza
ASHRAF KAGEE
Three friends in Gaza
AMIRA HASS
"Resist the Normalization of Evil": On Palestine and Journalism
GEORGE KING
Fields, Forests and Fakery: ‘Green Colonialism’ in Palestine
HEIDI GRUNEBAUM
The Village Under the Forest
MEIR KAHANE
Jewish Terror: A JEWISH STATE VERSUS WESTERN DEMOCRACY
FRANK ARMSTRONG
Ireland and Palestine: A Crucial Vote Awaits
NIKHIL SINGH
The Siege of Gaza 332 BC
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23 March 2025
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10 August 2024
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INGRID ORIT HURWITZ

SHATTERED

It was in 2004 that I had my mind shattered.
By Conscious Jews.
3 key moments
1. Picking up a book written by the meticulous Israeli historian Ilan Pappe… The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. It has a map in it of the Palestinian villages ethnically “cleansed” (depopulated through mass murder and terror) in 1948, each with the populations and original Arabic names. I must have stared at it for an hour.

2. Listening to Jewish scholar Steven Friedman at my first time at a meeting of South African Jews for a Free Palestine – SAJFP. I went because I thought “oh, peaceniks”.

3. Reading the posters on the wall at a Pesach Freedom Seder with South African Jews for a Free Palestine – SAJFP. Each one had a picture of a historic Israeli prime minister or government official with one of their genocidally racist statements. My mind went, “WTF. WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTFFFFFF”, and my soul was set ablaze. Not a fuck ever will I ever stop speaking about this or fighting this. “No ..no no no” sacred and holy outrage.

DISCOVERIES SINCE 2004:

1. ILLEGITIMATE: The legal illegitimacy of the ethnostate in being created by a British declaration (Balfour) basically giving away a people’s land. One tiny caveat: “do not mistreat or compromise the Palestinians living there” (oops, they forgot that sentence).

2. 1948: Nakba according to Plan Dalet from the beginning.
Ethnic cleansing as the Master Plan.
Founding racism, terror gangs (Irgun, Stern), 1948 massacres, rapes, atrocities, torture, war crimes, murder of families in their living rooms at night via hand grenades dropped through windows, literally caging people and mowing them down in 1948, all the tools of ethnic cleansing – the litany of brutal racist cruelty including the shocking truths of Deir Yasin, Tantura, Sabra, Shatila, the horrific blood-soaked list of massacres committed by “Israeli” psychopaths is too long and the individual horrors too painful.

3. DECEIT – LYING TO CHILDREN: Deceit and enrolment of children in complicity: JNF charity money collections at schools for tree-planting in the ethnostate – to plant on the ruins of cleansed villages.

4. CORRUPTION OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS: Corrupt lobbying. Global buying off of politicians. On all sides. Especially in America and the UK. Buying policy.

5. MANIPULATION: Kompromat-gathering, threats/coercion and bribery.

6. BRAINWASHING : Mal-education of our Jewish Children. Warping their minds. Racism in classrooms, normalised Islamophobic jokes, prescribing Islamophobic propaganda as setworks (“Son of Hamas”, written by a born-again christian propaganda machine who literally claims the Quran is Satanic). Omitting all of the point 2 content in the curriculum. BRAINWASHING children since birth in ethnoreligious nationalism and supremacy. Outright racist supremacy. Jewish lives matter more. Much more. As one politician put it recently- “a jewish toenail is worth more than all of the lives of the Arabs in Gaza” he may have said the whole of Israel. or the whole world. Google it. With deep feeling, sincerity and loyalty. “Proudly Zionist” is part of the schools’ value statement.

7. ERASURE of landmarks, cultural treasures, history, ancestral homes, universities, Archives, libraries. Erasure of memory. Obliteration of narrative identity. With laughter on video.

8. DESTRUCTION of nature: Destruction of Olive groves, agricultural land, water wells. With laughter on video.

9. DEATH to humans: Murder of people, all people. Any people. From a foetus to a neonate in an incubator to a pregnant woman to a child to a teenager to a young adult to a student to a mother, father, granny, grandfather. Systematic. Heartless. Calculated. And with GLEE and CELEBRATION. With laughter on video.

10: DEATH to sentient beings: farm animals, service animals, cats, dogs, horses, donkeys, wild creatures, insects. With heartless glee. With laughter on video (horse video for example).

11. TORTURE of any person. Grandmother or child, in detention without trial. Indefinite detention without trial called “Administrative detention”. Children. Forced confessions signed in Hebrew, a language they can’t read or write. Rape in detention. By men, by women with objects, by dogs (did you know they spray hormones on people’s genital area to get the dogs to rape them? Probably not. You haven’t been following the victim and whistleblower testimonies because you haven’t known where to look. It most certainly isn’t in the MSM stenographer press, is it?). And of course those testimonies are discredited.. “ANTISEMITIC LIES!” Of course they are.

12. LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES. A zionist is lying (often unknowingly) when their mouth is moving. They are repeating lies. Lies and fabrications, omissions, occlusions, rationalisations, equivocations, false equivalences, distortions, propaganda, indoctrination, hasbara, nationalist sentimental myths, drivel, fragments of decontextualised truths, dehumanised partial facts. It LIES about everything. LIES. its DNA is made of strands of lies. Peptides are lies. Every bond is a lie. The whole things is a lie. They believe it. (Two state offers of peace, blah blah blah blah.. ).

13. CULT IDOLATRY. The state is an idol. Zionists worship it with all their hearts. Unquestioningly. If they had proof on video of 100 babies being raped to death by IDF soldiers who had been instructed to do it, and government ministers were defending it on TV, and civilians were protesting any investigation or consequences, they would find a way to make it an exception. (Bad apples, Israel will investigate, yes it is unacceptable and does not fit our values as the Most Moral Army. These are not zionist values). If literally EVERY IDF soldier murdered an infant they would still manage to keep the zionism in their brains intact. It is inviolable. Zionism is a cult. They need to be RESCUED and deprogrammed.

This is a summary of what I discovered over the past 2 decades that the ethno-apartheid state of IsraHELL, Isn’treal is about.

It became fully manifest to me in greater and greater clarity over years of investigation of sources now familiar to all of you, via authors like Pappe, Norman Finkelstein, Miko Peled, Ostrovsky. Our own Steven Friedman. Local JEWISH activists. Allan Kolski Horwitz, Ronnie Kasrils. Naomi Klein. Noam Chomsky. Rabbi Shapiro.

*****You ONLY needed to follow Jews!!***. Jewish people who at first shocked me…. JEWS who helped me ward off the spitting poison of Zionists who accused me of slander, Jew-hating, self-hating, evil, and so on. Zionists who publish your name in the Jewish Report for signing a petition about something basic. “Please don’t arrest children” (You get publicly shamed for saying that, spat on, even).
I have precisely ZERO jewish friends who are not in the antizionist movement. My family all know everything. On board.

Thank goodness I know these Jews of conscience because otherwise I would not know that Judaism and Zionism are opposites, and I would literally vomit at every sign of Judaism. Every Magen Dovid, yarmulke, Tallis, menorah, Tanakh, all tzitzit, mezuzot and chaggim would make me want to puke.

Thank you to you people. Ishvara Dhyan Megan Choritz Shereen Usdin Dudley Barker Jared Sacks Daniel Friedman Jo Bluen Rina King and many more. My deepest gratitude. I am able to be a Kaballah student and love Judaism because of you. I am able to listen to Sephardic Jewish music and enjoy Yiddish folktales because of you. I can host a shabbat dinner. We wear keffiyehs and celebrate the INEVITABLE coming end of zionism and the triumph of HUMANITY.

My heritage can be held and cherished. Zionist racist ethnoreligious lebensraum herrenvolk ideology is a novel outgrowth of unhealed trauma and RACIST colonialist ideology, NOT of Judaism.

Keep up the tireless work, South African Jews for a Free Palestine – SAJFP
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement (no, not a terrorist organisation. JOIN IT, support it, for god’s sake!!!)
B’Tselem
Breaking the Silence
Jews Against Genocide
Jewish Voice for Peace

I am taking time out from this relentless daily re-education and truth-telling role I chose, some of which is on social media and has been bombarding anyone who could take another day of it. It is time for me to take a moment to purge the disgust and bile and poisonous sludge from my heart, to allow my nerves to reset from HORROR, cortisol, adrenalin, flashbacks at night, frequent waking, hours a day of witnessing, sharing. I am taking a short time to detox and re-boot for the next round.

With zionism already exposed for what it is, this kind of education is less necessary.
We are entering a new phase. Zionism is unmasked.

The world is awakened. ALHAMDULLILAH! Thanks to the precious blood of children.

ISRAHELL is fully unmasked in all its bottomless depravity.

I will find a new role. It will need to be something else practical. Any suggestions welcome. I have no admin skills. Anything except admin.

Isntreal MUST be fully destroyed for the sake of humanity. Not Jews, OBVIOUSLY. The legal frameworks of the Apartheid state. Like the 3rd reich and the apartheid regime were institutionally dismantled. A radical legislative re-organisation. A new constitution, like South Africa got in 1994.

New laws. Rights. Equality. Safety for everyone.

Perhaps we will need some kind of curatorship by democracies to keep the peace and prevent a right wing nationalist herrenvolk bloodbath (another one), until people realise that Palestinians only want to exist. Little Palestinian babies are not terrifying antisemitic demonic terrorists. They are adorable, sweet BABIES just like ours.
People who have a knowledge of history can facilitate a multilateral process of constitution-writing and subsequent enforcement of order.

South Africa
Ireland
A Native American organisation
An Aboriginal committee
A Maori group
Environmental Rights groups
The UN
Amnesty
No USA or UK or Germany. Keep those complicit blood-soaked lying genocidaires the fuck away.
Albanese for acting minister of Justice in the interim caretaker government.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement

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