Shifting the guilt
Even though Israeli novelist Agur Schiff’s latest book is meant to be a satirical reflection on the legacy of slavery and stereotypes about Africa, it ends up reinforcing them.
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Yotam Gidron
Yotam Gidron is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven and the author of Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Appeasing disgruntled critics
Israel’s success in getting observer status at the African Union is also a sign of the growing lack of interest among African leaders in the Palestinian issue altogether.
Kwame Nkrumah and Israel
Israel projected itself as a plucky postcolonial nation. Many African nations and leaders bought into it. Israel’s occupation of the Sinai in 1967 changed that.
The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.
Why is Israel in Africa?
A new book explores the rationale of Israel’s efforts to expand its influence on the African continent.