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Pro-Palestinian Student Protests against Israel Have Echoes of Vietnam and Apartheid

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Pro-Palestinian student protests against Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza are erupting on college campuses across America. The unfolding scenes echo the most notorious student protests in US history: the anti-Vietnam protests of the late 1960s and the anti-apartheid protests of the mid-1980s. However, I submit that there’s greater resonance between these protests and the anti-apartheid protests. Even… Read more.

Musk Claims Whites Are Smarter Than Blacks – Surprised?

Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Musk’s racism mirrors Trump’s Elon Musk is a racist. At this point, that shouldn’t surprise anyone. I, for one, have written many commentaries denouncing his public tweets. Those tweets often show his true colors.  Simply put, Musk is becoming to business what Donald Trump is to politics: a temperamental, incompetent, petty, spiteful, cowardly, racist, narcissistic, homophobic, antisemitic, bullying buffoon. In other words, they’re two… Read more.

Israel Is Planning a ‘Complete Siege’ of Gaza

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 6:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

This afternoon, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu announced that Israel is amassing forces to invade and raze Gaza. He warned that the decimation Israel intends to execute will echo for generations. Sieging Gaza Netanyahu’s quest for vengeance is understandable. But those who stand with Israel must still maintain perspective, especially in its darkest hour The Israeli military said on… Read more.

Israel Invaded Jenin on a Wag-the-Dog Mission for Netanyahu

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 11:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Israel is withdrawing from the occupied city of Jenin in the West Bank today. On Monday, Israel launched the biggest military operation in the Palestinian Territories in 20 years.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims the mission was to cull terrorists from safe havens in the Jenin refugee camp. And he’s hailing it as “mission accomplished.” Israel invaded Jenin… Read more.

South Africa Is Sending Arms to Russia – Because China Ordered It To

Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

South Africa is sending arms to Russia because the world is at war. For now, Ukraine is the battlefield. And for now, Russians and Ukrainians are the combatants. But countries are taking sides. They are siding with Ukraine and the forces of democracy, or with Russia and the forces of autocracy. Some countries are hedging… Read more.

Heart of Darkness Comes to Light as South Africa Apes Worst of Zimbabwe…

Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:37 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The world watched in restrained shock and resigned dismay this week as South Africans looted and pillaged in the name, and arguably at the behest, of their disgraced former president, Jacob Zuma. The defiant 79-year-old was finally convicted of contempt of court last month for refusing to attend an inquiry into state-capture corruption during his… Read more.

Human Rights Watch: Israel Is a De Facto Apartheid State. Duh.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 6:06 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

It’s arguable that Benjamin Netanyahu has been as determined to turn Israel into an apartheid state for Palestinians as Hendrik Verwoerd was to turn South Africa into one for Blacks. This is why I’ve been in the vanguard of those decrying the way Israelis keep voting for Netanyahu. Most notably, former President Jimmy Carter wrote… Read more.

Trump Sent Jared to Broker a Peace Deal Between the Palestinians and Israelis. But Jared Just Hung Out with Emirati Royals. So Why the Cheers…?

Sunday, August 16, 2020 at 4:38 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

President Trump summoned the press on Thursday to announce the Mideast peace deal he tasked his son-in-law Jared Kushner to broker. Unsurprisingly, he hailed it as the biggest diplomatic accomplishment since Henry Kissinger laid the groundwork for President Nixon’s opening to China. Trump also tweeted a lengthy joint statement between the US, UAE and Israel,… Read more.

Cuba: Viva la Revolución…?

Monday, April 23, 2018 at 7:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Miguel is following Raúl as Raúl followed Fidel. With apologies to my Spanish-speaking readers, nothing describes Cuba’s national development quite like the French epigram plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. It means the more it changes, the more it remains the same. And that, in a nutshell, is Cuba. Cuba’s National Assembly cleared… Read more.

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-Winning Author and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Is Dead

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 6:19 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I feel obliged to begin by confessing that, when it came to reading the works of white authors in Apartheid South Africa, my interest did not extend much beyond those of Athol Fugard. No doubt this is because Fugard didn’t just write provocative anti-Apartheid plays (like his pioneering Blood Knot in 1961); he also defied… Read more.