By Leah Levane
Outlined here are some of the many ways in which Israel does not have a “right to exist”. Even beyond the general position vis a via States compared with people, Israel has time and time again violated international law from the Nakba and ever since.
By Leah Levane
Not once has Israel engaged in negotiations aimed at a genuine settlement based on the return of Palestinian land. Every single negotiating process broke down under the weight of Israeli objections. Each one was used only to gain further ground and consolidate settlement of the territories seized in 1967.
By Leah Levane
Gaza has changed the world and resulted in “a profound rupture in the way much of the world now views Western institutions.” The failure of the western powers to live up to their claims to care about human rights has been exposed. Israel has continued to act with impunity and yet, Baroud argues the key story of Gaza is “the extraordinary resilience of the Palestinian people.”
We post below a letter to Andy Burnham, incoming leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, written by Jewish members of Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against Gaza Genocide (HSD), Jewish Voice for Liberation (JVL – formerly Jewish Voice for Labour) and Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
Associated correspondence from the HSD to the Minister of State for Policing and Crime, Sarah Jones MP, signed by 42 Holocaust survivors and Descendants, and her totally inadequate, indeed insulting, response is attached.
Joseph Finlay’s assessment of Keir Starmer’s premiership is bitingly and bitterly critical.
For a good reason. Starmer was a nebbish Prime Minister, most likely to remembered for frittering away a landslide majority which could have accomplished so much if he had believed in any of the 10 Pledges on which he was elected Labour leader.
No matter. He is now determined to fashion a legacy out of loving Jews…
By Leah Levane
There has been remarkably little coverage in the mainstream media on the 47 days of peaceful protest (so far) by large numbers of people in Albania. Initially protesting the sale of protected wildlife land – a nature reserve – to Jared Kushner (the same man who plans to turn Gaza into a holiday resort) and Ivanka Trump, it is now also a protest against government and political leaders, against corruption and for a country run for ordinary people.
By Leah Levane
The government recognises that the climate catastrophe could bring food shortages and create a serious security risk for the UK and yet allocates very little to this aspect of security compared with its defence commitments!
By Leah Levane
The cruel absurdity of Israel’s military occupation of Palestine is highlighted by this piece from the Villages Group writing about Umm Al Khair in the South Hebron Hills, where Karmel Settlement sits cheek by jowl with the village on land it stole from the villagers.
In this insightful but complex (and somewhat gloomy) analysis Jacob Ostfield explains how the modern military-industrial complex (MIC) exemplifies “a cyclical process that develops and refines technology through carnage”.
The extensive alliances he discusses, between big tech and the US military, are not opportunistic anomalies, but part of the plan.
This is how the AI boom today has come to represents “the apex of military-civil fusion: the same technology used to commit genocide and wage war abroad is the largest source of economic growth in the US today.”
Friends About a month ago, we were told to leave our offices at once. For years our home was the Mevakshei Derech Synagogue in Jerusalem. A synagogue. Then Shai Glick, a right wing activist branded by Israel’s own Ombudsman for Judges as a “serial complainant who doesn’t verify facts” told the city that a human rights organization had no business … Continued