By Leah Levane
Starmer’s speech on immigration is critically addressed here along with elements of the White Paper itself. Is stopping migration a solution to our problems even if it can be done? Is this even the moral thing to do? We can also recall that Starmer was very pro immigration and freedom of movement in the recent …
By Leah Levane
This interview with Zack Polanski, currently Deputy Leader and campaigning to be Leader of the Green Party makes for fascinating reading. At a time when a push for a new party of the left is gaining traction, Polanski would argue that there is a ready made alternative to the current Labour Party. We know that …
By Leah Levane
We have previously published articles about the failure of western media and our politicians to call out Israel for its heinous – genocidal actions in Gaza but the tide is, finally, turning. As more mainstream outlets call on the world to wake up, Jonathan Cook points out “much of the world woke up many, many …
By Leah Levane
We do not remember this enough. 16th May marks the anniversary of the day, in 1944 when the SS planned to liquidate the Roma Camp at Auschwitz and were met with resistance. The writer acknowledges some recognition of the Roma genocide but notes that there is no responsibility shown and no real acknowledgement of all that …
By Leah Levane
If you have watched Electronic Intifada’s Livestream reporting, you will be familiar with Abubaker Abed whose own Substack notes that he is “an accidental war correspondent from…Gaza. He was thrown into an active warzone to report on the genocide. He’s a football journalist and commentator.” Throughout the pummeling of Gaza, he has made powerful contributions …
Antony Lerman takes Rachel Shabi to task for erasing the Jewish left’s efforts to tackle antisemitism in her new book on the subject.
Four American scholars of human rights law and international law have put their careers on the line by publicising reports concluding that Israel has engaged in acts of apartheid against the Palestinian population and that its actions meet the international definition of genocide.
BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen interviewed commissioner-general of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, exposing and denouncing Israel’s killing of journalists, blockading of essential aid, displacing massive numbers of Palestinian civilians, unwarranted attacks in UNRWA as if it were a front for terrorism and the craven complicity of Western governments.
By Leah Levane
The reaction to Louis Theroux’s documentary which showed us much about the reality of settler strength (and power) in the West Bank, has been widespread and interesting. As well as the inevitable criticism, there have been some articles showing that he understated the problem. Dimi Reader in a New Statesman article points out that Theroux and …
By Leah Levane
The planned total take over of Gaza, “Operation Gideon’s Chariots has yet to begin, and the chariots of genocide are already warming their engines.” So says veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. His fury is clear: in Israel’s claimed determination to “eliminate Hamas”, which comes alongside the commitment to completely take over Gaza , anything seems …