By Leah Levane
This is the second post of presentations made to the Britain Palestine Project Conference. Here Professor Avi Shlaim focuses particularly on Britain’s role in creating the catastrophe for Palestinians. He is involved in the “Britain Owes Palestine” project and he “contends that acknowledgement of historical responsibility must be accompanied by practical political action and a commitment to accountability.”
By Leah Levane
Dalrymple argues that understanding the depth of Palestinian history is essential to understanding the present crisis and to building a future based on justice, accountability and equal rights. He concludes by reflecting on the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the importance of transforming recognition into practical support for Palestinian self-determination.
By Leah Levane
Here Erella from the Villages Group writes of life for Palestinians under occupation and of harshrecent events. One of the moving anecdotes here is of the expressed desire for more Israelis to come to be with Palestinians, not for protective presence but “For my children. I want my children to learn that there are other Israelis, too. Not everyone is like the settlers. I want them to learn that not everyone is the same”.
By Leah Levane
Israel is training people in propaganda and: “At an American Jewish Committee event…Santa Clara University’s Maya Ackerman argued that generative AI presents an exciting new opportunity for imposing pro-Israel narratives on public consciousness, because AI companies can be lobbied directly to push pro-Israel narratives since their leaders can control what information people see.
By Leah Levane
Emeritus Professor James Dickins has finally, after two years, had his full academic rights restored by Leeds Univerity. These were suspended as a result of reaction to ” …a message Professor Dickins sent in February 2024 on the WhatsApp chat of the Palestine Solidarity Group, a Leeds University Union Society. A screenshot of this was leaked to the Daily Telegraph and then picked up by Jewish News
By Leah Levane
Jonathan Cook makes the connections between the tragic way Henry Nowak died and the treatment of Child Q, the response to the murder of Stephen Lawrence and to the policing of Palestine protests and of the importance of evidence.
Tony Karon draws on a recent interview with Rashid Khalidi, the Palestinian-American Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and on his own experience and analysis of liberation struggles generally.
He emphasises the need to think strategically and to adopt site-specific tactics that can shift the balance of power to help undermine the coalition of those who support and enable Israel’s genocide.
Theodor Meron’s memoir follows an extraordinary journey — from the Częstochowa ghetto and a Nazi forced-labour camp to the founding of the International Criminal Court, the landmark genocide trials of Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, and his recent role advising the ICC on cases in Israel and Gaza. Meron’s happy childhood was cut short at the … Continued
By Mike Cushman
It is concerning that public authorities appear to act as though the right of people to oppose crimes against humanity is less important than the right of people who seem less troubled by these atrocities not to be disturbed. The better reaction by the Police and the Mayor would be to be vocal in their condemnation of the genocide and careful and patient in explaining that these protests do not threaten the safety of any Londoners.
Jewish activist and former Israeli citizen, Avigail Abarbanel, is ferocious in her critique of genocide scholar Omer Bartov’s latest publication “Israeli: what went wrong?”
She argues that there never was a Zionism which began as a genuine humanist project that then went wrong.
The logic of elimination — erasure, replacement, genocide — was present in the Zionist settler colonial project from the beginning, so there is no tragedy of a state that started with great ideals and was subsequently corrupted.