Israel and Palestine is the most censored issue in our country

JVL Introduction

We repost some extracts from ‘In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’, in which she asks: what is the point of journalism if journalists don’t speak the truth?

Her comments include:

• lamenting the shabby way in which our media deal with Israel’s abuse of power in the occupied territories with the “protective wall” shielding Israel from proper scrutiny;
• crediting those writers who refuse to be cowed and who will be appearing at the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) opening in London on 27 October – an affirmation of “the power of culture over the culture of power”;
• drawing attention to JVL’s letter to the Labour Party about discrimination against Jewish left-wing members and how the story is largely ignored;
• alluding to the many stories about the daily army and settler atrocities committed against Palestinians that simply don’t get reported – and of the growing recognition of Israel’s apartheid reality around the world, if not so much in the West.

This article was originally published by the i, weekly newletter on Fri 22 Sep 2023. Read the original here.