South African Jews for a Free Palestine

South African Jews for a Free Palestine

We are an organisation of South African Jews working towards a just and peaceful end to the conflict in Historic Palestine

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Merle Favis

Apr 16, 2025

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BDS protests lead to removal of Israeli signage at Norwood Pick n Pay

Apr 15, 2025

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https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/bds-protests-lead-to-removal-of-israeli-signage-at-norwood-pick-n-pay/ar-AA1CWNt1?ocid=Huawei&appid=hwbrowser&ctype=news
An Exhortation to Support Genocide from Marais Road Synagogue

Apr 15, 2025

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It is with disgust but without surprise or shock that South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) has learned of the comments by Reuben…
Prof. Kelly Gillespie Representing SAJFP in the Robben Island – Palestine Relay Swim

Apr 10, 2025

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We are super grateful that the amazing Kelly Gillespie has agreed to represent South African Jews for a Free Palestine – SAJFP in a Robben…

More footage from Wednesday's vigil at St George's

More footage from Wednesday's vigil at St George's Cathedral ✊

📹 @tams.wilson

Images from yesterday's vigil at St George's Cathe

Images from yesterday's vigil at St George's Cathedral. Join us every Wednesday at 1PM to protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza!

📹 @tams.wilson

Join Save Our Sacred Lands tomorrow, 29 November,

Join Save Our Sacred Lands tomorrow, 29 November, in protesting against genocide and colonialism at the U.S. consulate in Joburg. Let's stand against the complicity of the United States and Amazon in the genocide in Gaza and the further entrenching of colonial inequities across the globe!

#makeamazonpay #freepalestine🇵🇸 #decolonize

On Friday 22 November, our Joburg members proteste

On Friday 22 November, our Joburg members protested outside the Beyachad compound, which houses the SAZF HQ as well as other Zionist organisations. We recited Kaddish for all the lives lost during the current genocide and recited names of one hundred of the children who have been murdered.

We host these protests and prayers to signal to both the Jewish community and the wider world that Zionism is not Judaism and there is nothing antisemitic about fighting oppression, apartheid, and genocide, no matter who it is happening to and who is committing it. It is easy to despair after more than a year of genocide, funded and supported by world powers like the US, that there is nothing we can do. However, if our actions can move the needle even an inch, it is worth continuing to fight. Aluta Continua!

📹 @klarabeckerling

#freepalestine🇵🇸 #antizionismisnotantisemitism #neveragainforanyone

Yesterday, outside the headquarters of the SAZF an

Yesterday, outside the headquarters of the SAZF and other Zionist organisations, we brought in Shabbat with Kaddish, candle-lighting, and prayers in remembrance of the people martyred during Israel's genocide in Gaza. In the face of Zionist intimidation, we will continue to stand firm in our commitment to an end to the violence, the dismantling of apartheid Israel, and the realisation of a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

#freepalestine🇵🇸

SAJFP's statement on The "Future of Health" Sympos

SAJFP's statement on The "Future of Health" Symposium happening in Cape Town tomorrow (19 November). The future of health cannot be one in which access to healthcare is used to discriminate and exterminate.

We appreciate the work done by @hcw4palestinesa to bring light to this matter. Their efforts have already had the result of the withdrawal of SAHPRA ✊

#freepalestine🇵🇸 #endapartheid

Cape Town: Join us on Friday night for the next Sh

Cape Town: Join us on Friday night for the next Shabbat against Genocide. All are welcome to what is always a moving and powerful interfaith event

A common question we get asked is how our families

A common question we get asked is how our families have reacted to our anti-Zionism. Merlynn Edelstein shares her personal experience, elements of which reflect the experience of many SAJFP members. Her explanation of why she continues to do this work regardless is both poignant and powerful.

#antizionistjew #palestine #notinourname

Due to the massive demand, there will be another C

Due to the massive demand, there will be another Cape Town screening of Israelism on November 20! It will be followed by a Q&A with former Herzlia students.

Get your tickets now at the link in our bio!

https://www.quicket.co.za/events/282866-israelism-screening-cape-town/

Every Jewish South African is familiar with the bl

Every Jewish South African is familiar with the blue and white JNF tins. We were told that the money we donated helped to “make the desert bloom.” Merle was among a group of SAJFP members who saw firsthand the nefarious use to which this money was put.

#antizionistjew #palestine #notinourname

A question we often get asked is how we became suc

A question we often get asked is how we became such committed anti-Zionists. The dignity of the Palestinian people - and the love cultivated between Jewish anti-Zionists, Palestinians, and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement - drives us to persist, but it is the fact that this is done in our names that opened the door to activism for many of us.

The common question posed by Zionists - “What about the Holocaust?” - is baffling. The very parallels we see between the oppression of the Palestinians by Israel and the oppression of the Jews by Nazi Germany makes it impossible to stand idly by. The fight is so personal precisely because of the atrocities committed against our families and our education therein.

Thanks once again to Shereen for her powerful words.

#antizionistjew #palestine #notinourname #alutacontinua

Cape Town comrades: Please join us this coming Fri

Cape Town comrades: Please join us this coming Friday (1st of November) at Masjidul Ghurbaah in Wynberg for our next Shabbos Against Genocide which will have a particular focus on Queer Palestinian voices 🏳‍🌈🇵🇸

After our Shabbos Service, there will be Maghrib prayers, three short speeches (by Tareq Baconi, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, and Imam Muhsin Hendricks), and then a communal vegetarian bring and share meal.

Though this has been in the works for a while, with the recent Tel Aviv bid to host the next ILGA conference, it is extra timely and urgent to centre queer Palestinians!

For many members who grew up learning Zionist hasb

For many members who grew up learning Zionist hasbara, learning about Israel’s true nature was a gradual process. It can take time to internalise, but often an experience or piece of information leads everything to fall into place. Suddenly, fighting this system is no longer an option but a moral imperative.
#antizionistjew #palestine #notinourname #alutacontinua

Some visuals from our Shabbat against Genocide in

Some visuals from our Shabbat against Genocide in Claremont on Friday night. As Israel escalates its genocide, these interfaith spaces give us a chance to reflect on our activism. The pro-Palestine movement is growing, and we need to regularly connect and find new ways to reach people and put press on all who support the brutal Zionist endgame. We take these opportunities to re-energise, knowing that we will need to fight on for the foreseeable future, not stopping until Palestine and all oppressed peoples are free ✊

📹 @tams.wilson

#freepalestine #alutacontinua

This week's Shabbos Spotlight focuses on"The Beat

This week's Shabbos Spotlight focuses on"The Beat Never Goes Off" by Tamer Nafar @tamer_nafar featuring young rapper MC Abdul @mca.rap and singer-songwriter Noel Kharman @noelkharman . It's a great track, and its context sheds light on the mechanisms of separation and the role of art in breaking them down.

Stream "The Beat Never Goes Off" on all platforms now.

#palestine #hiphopmusic

Watch Naila and The Uprising by Julia Bacha in Cap

Watch Naila and The Uprising by Julia Bacha in Cape Town, Bertha House and Johannesburg, The Forge, and learn more about “Administrative Detention” from @visualizing_palestine

Screenings: www.aflamuna.org/PCD24Map
Infographic: https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/administrative-detention/

شاهدوا “نائلة والانتفاضة” للمخرجة جوليا باشا في كيب تاون، بيرثا هاوس وجوهانسبرغ، ذا فورج، واطّلعوا على “دليل الاحتجاز الإداري” من @visualizing_palestine.

العروض السينمائية: www.aflamuna.org/PCD24Map
البيانات المرسومة: https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/administrative-detention/?lang=ar

Join us on the somber centenary of the Balfour Dec

Join us on the somber centenary of the Balfour Declaration, a pivotal moment in history, as we stand in solidarity in an effort to amplify Palestinian voices. Together, we will screen "Naila and The Uprising," a powerful film by Julia Bacha that highlights the ongoing struggle for justice. This is not just a screening; it is a call to acknowledge and confront the realities of genocide. Your presence matters.

When: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 - 4:00 pm SAST
Where: Bertha House, 67 - 69 Main Road, Mowbray, Cape Town South Africa
The screening is free of charge.
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/NailaCapeTown

When an uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 1987, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom.

"We can’t be free as women unless we’re in a free country. And even if we are free of the occupation, we can’t know freedom as long as we are subjugated in our own society." - Sama Aweidah, film protagonist, Naila and the Uprising.

Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, Cape Town edition, is brought to you in partnership with Filmlab Palestine, supported by Cinema Solidarity and hosted by Bertha House Mowbray.
شاركونا في الذكرى 107 لوعد بلفور، وهي لحظة مفصليّة في التاريخ، حيث نتضامن ونحرص على إيصال الأصوات الفلسطينية. سنعرض معاً فيلم "نائلة والانتفاضة" للمخرجة جوليا باشا، وهو فيلم قوي يسلط الضوء على النضال المستمر من أجل العدالة. ليس هذا عرض فيلم فحسب؛ بل دعوة للاعتراف بالإبادة الجماعيّة ومواجهة حقائقها. حضوركم مهم.

التاريخ: السبت، 2 تشرين الثاني 2024 - الساعة 4:00 ب. ظ. بتوقيت جنوب أفريقيا
المكان: "بيرثا هاوس" 67-69 الطريق الرئيسي، موبراي، كيب تاون، جنوب أفريقيا.
الدخول مجاني.
للتأكيد على الحضور، نرجو التسجيل: https://tinyurl.com/NailaCapeTown

عند اندلاع الانتفاضة الأولى في الأراضي الفلسطينيّة المحتلّة عام 1987، تجد شابّة من غزّة نفسها أمام خيار صعب بين الحب والعائلة والحريّة.

"لا يمكن أن نكون أحرارًا كنساء ما لم نكن في بلد حرّ. وحتى لو تحرّرنا من الاحتلال، لن نعرف الحريّة طالما أنّنا مقهورات في مجتمعنا."
– سما عويضة، بطلة فيلم "نائلة والانتفاضة".

أيام السينما الفلسطينية حول العالم، في كيب تاون، بالشراكة مع Filmlab Palestine، وبدعم من Cinema Solidarity، واستضافة Bertha House Mowbray.

Reposting for clearer sound!

Shereen Usdin is one

Joburg SAJFP member Josh Marcus @the_queer_jew spe

Joburg SAJFP member Josh Marcus @the_queer_jew speaks about the messianic nature of Zionist education in schools like King David. The recent News24 article on King David alum and “elite sniper” Aaron Bayhack has raised the question of how a South African ends up participating in a genocide. This is how - Israeli exceptionalism is a fundamental aspect of the hasbara taught to Jewish children from the moment they enter a Zionist school. History is taught to frame Israel not just as a Jewish project but as a destiny promised by God. In this narrative, Israel can only ever be “the good guys” and anyone who is opposed to them is framed as an enemy of Judaism and the Jewish God.

#freepalestine🇵🇸 #antizionism #antizionistjews

In this week in our Shabbos Spotlight, we aim to b

In this week in our Shabbos Spotlight, we aim to bring more attention to the atrocities perpetrated by Israel in Northern Gaza. It is only through the work of incredible Palestinian journalists that we are aware of much of what is taking place.

Let us know in the comments about any additional journalists reporting from Northern Gaza on social media. Follow the above journalists at:

@hossam_shbat
@wissamgaza
@anasjamal44
@mohammedzaanoun

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