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).
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1 month 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...
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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...
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2 months ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Kevin Bloom
EXCLUSIVE Hoerikwaggo, better known as Table Mountain.
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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.
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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.
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RT @UdsiAsli: No, genocidal societies should be dismantled, generally. Raz Segal today: ‘We should help Israeli society fall apart’ https:/…
No longer the richest square mile of anything. Like you, with at most 30% awareness rate, Joburg is subsisting on the fumes of self-delusion alone… x
I walked around Michelangelo Towers and Mall in the heart of Sandton. It has been devastated - 30% occupancy rate. I wish I took pictures. Richest square mile in Africa and no one has money.
What our government continues to get right 👇🏼
ALERT 📣 | The Hague Group convenes states from across the world to an Emergency Conference to halt the genocide in Gaza. @EmbassyCOLinZA https://t.co/Lxrh7z9e5j
