The next time I'm asked to comment on the ferocious attacks by pro-Israel supporters on Minister Naledi Pandor, I'll describe it as "broadside".
Having read and heard a broad range of insults hurled at her, I'm convinced that the expression "broadside" best fits the attacks on her.
These thoughts came to mind when the latest broadside by Karen Milner, National Chairperson of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, was published in Politicsweb.
Her fierce verbal attack on Min Pandor may assuage her band of noisy cheerleaders who applaud and endorse Israel's genocidal war in occupied Gaza, but does little to persuade anyone outside her circle.
Reasons for Milner's failure to impactfully influence public opinion against Pandor are plentiful. But crucially, the fact that her broadside is directly linked to her public profile as an advocate for Israel and Zionism, raises serious concerns about her impartiality.
Indeed the weak arguments she makes to taint Minister Pandor as a vengeful threat to "South Africa's Jewish community", is not convincing at all.