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anti-Semitism in South Africa

Illustrative: A Young girl playing tennis (iStock by Getty Images)
February 10, 2026, 7:37 pm
Antisemitism alleged as South African school cancels tennis match with Jewish team
Prestigious all-girls boarding school in Johannesburg sparks anger for calling off a match with the King David High School girls’ team
By Zev Stub
SABC presenter Juliet Newell (L) debates Mamphela Ramphele on South African television, August 2025. (Screenshots: YouTube, clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 2, 2025, 7:07 pm
South African interviewer fired for challenging comparison of Gaza war to Holocaust
Juliet Newell called the juxtaposition ‘provocative,’ noted the issues are different, prompting SABC broadcaster to boot her under pro-Palestinian pressure; Yad Vashem: ‘A moral failure’
By Zev Stub
South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein speaks at an Israeli Memorial Day ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, April 30, 2025. (Screenshot/ Facebook)
May 16, 2025, 4:18 pm
South Africa’s chief rabbi lauds Trump but calls his Afrikaner refugee policy a ‘mistake’
As the US turns away all refugees aside from white South Africans, calling their persecution at home a ‘genocide,’ Warren Goldstein says the portrayal is a mischaracterization
By Shira Li Bartov
Protesters hold signs reading "Boycott Israel, It worked with South-Africa" as they gather during a an anti-Israel demonstration, in front of the Foreign Affairs ministry in Madrid, on May 27, 2024. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
May 5, 2025, 4:11 pm
Government report accuses West of bolstering antisemitism by criticizing Israel
Diaspora Ministry dubs Canada ‘champion of antisemitism,’ tying Trudeau’s condemnation of military action in Gaza to 670% spike in anti-Jewish incidents
By Zev Stub
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, first row left, listens in Johannesburg on January 26, 2024, to the ruling from the top UN court that harshly criticized Israel's war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza. (AP Photo)
April 28, 2025, 6:05 am
South African Jews hopeful teetering coalition will be forced to temper anti-Israel stance
Some community leaders believe the solution to domestic challenges and a diplomatic crisis with the US begins with the Jewish state – but will the government agree?
By Zev Stub
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, wearing a keffiyah scarf, speaks before an exhibition football match between Western Cape XI and the Palestinian national football team at Athlone Stadium in Athlone, near Cape Town, on February 11, 2024. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)
May 29, 2024, 10:03 pm
Israel watches as South Africa’s hostile ANC set to lose support but remain in power
As 27 million head to polls, frustrated voters likely to punish African National Congress for corruption, but opposition has scant chance of ousting longtime rulers
By Lazar Berman
File: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa listens in Johannesburg, South Africa, to the ruling from the top UN court that harshly criticized Israel's war against Hamas, on January 26, 2024. (AP Photo)
April 20, 2024, 6:37 am
South Africa Jewish leader: President used meet with us on antisemitism to attack Israel
SA Jewish Board of Deputies requested talks with Ramaphosa to discuss rising Jew hatred, but Wendy Kahn says he instead went on about ‘the genocide that Israel is committing’
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: US Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference focused on bans on ritual slaughter that have been proposed and approved in European countries in Brussels on October 20, 2022. (US State Department)
January 20, 2024, 3:22 am
US brands as antisemitic South Africa’s demotion of Jewish cricket player
Envoy Deborah Lipstadt dismisses cricket squad’s claim of ‘security concerns’ in decision to strip David Teeger of men’s U19 team captaincy after he voiced support for IDF
By ToI Staff
David Teeger in a video uploaded by the SA Jewish Report, October 31, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 17, 2024, 6:38 pm
Diadora distances brand from boycott against Jewish South African cricketer
A businessman who declared a sponsorship ban on games featuring David Teeger has ‘no ties’ to the Italian sportwear firm, it says
By Canaan Lidor
David Teeger is the captain of South Africa's under-19 national cricket team. (Screenshot from YouTube/The South African Jewish Report via JTA)
December 14, 2023, 12:53 am
Rising South African cricket star who praised IDF cleared of hate speech allegations
Jewish sportsman David Teeger, 18, vindicated after he dedicated his ‘rising star’ award to Israel and a Palestinian advocacy group filed a complaint that led to his suspension
By jacob gurvis
Screenshots of two anti-Semitic tweets that have since been removed (screen grab)
October 27, 2020, 6:34 pm
South African Jews celebrate first criminal conviction for online anti-Semitism
Local man had tweeted at Jewish umbrella group that the Holocaust would ‘be like a picnic when we are done with you Zionist bastards’; sentence to be handed down Friday
By Raphael Ahren
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, takes the Oath of Office alongside Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, left, at the Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, May 25, 2019. (AP Photo)
July 29, 2020, 6:29 am
Under fire for pro-Israel comments, South African chief justice cites the Bible
In affidavit replying to formal complaint, Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng says religious obligation to pray for peace of Jerusalem and not hate Israel must not be seen as a political stance
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative photo of the Old Synagogue on Paul Kruger Street in Pretoria, South Africa. (CC BY-SA PHParsons, Wikimedia Commons)
February 4, 2020, 6:13 am
Anti-Semitic incidents fall to 15-year low in South Africa
Drop comes despite global trend of increasing anti-Semitic activity in countries with significant Jewish populations
By JTA
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