As we are offered a choice between Full Fat Reform Uk or Keir Starmer’s brand of Reform-lite, a poem from Michael Rosen delivers a powerful and moving rebuttal to the prime minister’s Enoch Powell-style rhetoric on migration
By Leah Levane
Callout for the next national march for Palestine. Jewish Bloc meeting point The Henry Bartle Frere Statue, Victoria Embankment Gardens SW1A 2ET. at noon
By Leah Levane
We send letters to our representatives and their reply has been full of sound and fury signifying nothing; here is a critique of every paragraph in the MP’s angry sounding letter that addressed none of the issues and seems to consider the British government powerless to do anything other than condemn actions and, for example, continue to arm Israel “for defensive purposes” (only) . There is much more that this government can do,
By Leah Levane
Israel’s treatment of its own citizens and foreign nationals who stand in solidarity with Palestinians can be vicious. Sadly too many other countries, not least the UK, USA and Germany are also clamping down on protests and other actions in support of Palestinians and in opposition to the genocide in Gaza and the brutal occupation …
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq are challenging UK government policy on arming Israel in a hearing starting on May 13 in the High Court.
By Leah Levane
Support for the war on Gaza is diminishing even among Israelis and Diaspora Jews. We may well think this is too little, too late and that the focus is on this government only is too narrow. However, as with the letter from the 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews we welcome …
By Leah Levane
Pro-Israel advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel has caused consternation by hailing Israel’s deliberate starving of Gaza’s population as potentially good for their health.
Louis Theroux’s documentary The Settlers offers a dystopian vision of where the supposedly liberal Western world seems to be headed, Jonathan Cook argues.
By Leah Levane
Robert Cohen writes with enthusiasm of attending the Jewish Voice for Peace gathering of anti-Zionist Jews. The focus is on building the movement, centreing it firmly as part of antiracist and anti colonial struggles, resisting the Trump regime’s deportations as well as restrictions on pro Palestinian discourse. As in so many countries, the opposition to conflating of antizionism with antisemitism.
By Leah Levane
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner was compelled to write about the starvation in Gaza after more than nine weeks of total blockade and on VE Day. The images were so reminiscent of those of his own father as the immediate ordeal of Auschwitz, a (near) death march and finally liberation in Mauthausen, near Ebensee.