Anti-Zionist activist and campaigner Megan Choritz at the annual Nabil Basil Swart Memorial Lecture at Alexander Sinton High School in Crawford.
The SA Jewish Report piece "Professor Mendelsohn sues anti-zionist Choritz for defamation"—by Tali Feinberg, published on or about 24–25 June 2026—is a hatchet job on activist Megan Choritz.
Feinberg's article is more an instrument of lawfare than quality, independent journalism. She emailed Choritz late on Friday afternoon, 19 June 2026: "I am writing an article on the defamation summons served to you this week, and I wanted to give you the opportunity to comment. What are your thoughts on being served this summons, and how are you planning to respond?" Choritz was given until the morning of Tuesday, 23 June to reply—a tight weekend deadline with no specifics offered.
The piece centres overwhelmingly on Professor Adam Mendelsohn. It highlights his court case against UCT "over its anti-Israel resolutions" and, in Feinberg's framing, presents him as "unafraid of standing up to discrimination"—even as he sues Choritz for defamation.
The defamation claim arises from Choritz's response to Mendelsohn's inaugural lecture at UCT, expressed in two formats: a TikTok video and a Substack article. In the video, she labels Mendelsohn "a supporter of Israel's genocide" and "an Islamophobe," arguing he should be stopped and deplatformed. In the article, she goes further, asserting that Mendelsohn and his Zionist allies do not merely fear Muslims but hate them—a hatred she says "looks and sounds exactly like antisemitism."
