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- ↑ The Daily Courage: Journalist Benjamin Pogrund let the facts speak for themselves, no easy task in apartheid South Africa
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- 1 2 "For Decades, I Defended Israel From Claims of Apartheid. I No Longer Can". Haaretz.
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