Kevin Bloom
Senior Reporter at Daily Maverick
Co-founder/inv. journ: Our Burning Planet @ Daily Maverick. Author: Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes (2016); Ways of Staying (2010).
Articles
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1 week 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...
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3 weeks ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom
EXCLUSIVE Hoerikwaggo, better known as Table Mountain.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom
RAGE-BAITING If their numbers were so small, why were they so loud? This was the statistical question that could be asked of South Africa’s new white supremacists, who appeared to be riding social media algorithms that were perfectly suited to their prejudices. From the rage farming to the race-baiting and all the techniques in between, the disinformation was now spilling into the offline world – and so, to avert lasting damage, was in urgent need of the law.
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