Kevin Bloom

2 weeks ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS REFLECTION Illustrative Image: Jabalia refugee camp (Photo: Haitham Imad / EPA-EFE) | Children carry water with the help of a bike. (Photo Hatham Imad / EPA-EFE) | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo Abir Sultan / EPA-EFE) | Doniel Katz (Image sourced / Facebook) From October 2023, despite all evidence to the contrary, many Israelis and members of the Zionist diaspora had been telling themselves that they were ‘battling the forces of darkness’ alone and...

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom

AVOIDING THE ISSUE Megan Choritz outside the JLF (Photo: Sourced / Facebook Melinda Ferguson) In the face of unrelenting allegations of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, what would constitute an act of Jewish self-betrayal? On Freedom Day 2025, at the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town, this question was more important than any other. But it wasn’t asked inside the festival venue — it manifested, instead, as verbal and physical assaults on the two Jewish protesters outside. In search of the...

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom

EXCLUSIVE   Hoerikwaggo, better known as Table Mountain.

2 months ago | namibian.com.na | Kevin Bloom

Back in mid-February, Israel-Palestine expert Norman Finkelstein told Daily Maverick that South Africa could expect to suffer an intensifying ‘dirty tricks campaign’ as evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza mounted. In the past few weeks, to deflect from the atrocities, Finkelstein’s predictions have become fact — not only has Israel recruited noted European anti-Semites to its cause, it has successfully exploited the Afrikaner far-right too.

2 months ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom

Back in mid-February, Israel-Palestine expert Norman Finkelstein told Daily Maverick that South Africa could expect to suffer an intensifying ‘dirty tricks campaign’ as evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza mounted. In the past few weeks, to deflect from the atrocities, Finkelstein’s predictions have become fact — not only has Israel recruited noted European anti-Semites to its cause, it has successfully exploited the Afrikaner far-right too.