Israel’s annexation plan is legalising illegality
The plan “to impose Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria” is gathering momentum.
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War crimes through the IDF’s own cameras
By Leah Levane
Al Jazeera has collated filmed evidence of what has been happening – and continues to happen – in Gaza. Creating a chilling documentary War crimes in Gaza that “exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.” The article below outlines the database behind the film which was …
Trump’s cuts are for everyone – even Jewish projects
By Leah Levane
So Trump (via the Musk led “Department of Government Efficiency [sic]) has cut and cut and cut; it has fired workers from many services including 80% of the staff of the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) which provides grants to organisations but many grants from government organisations have been stopped well before the end of …
Speaking for Palestine – risk deportation in the US
By Leah Levane
There are so many terrible stories coming from the Trump led USA about massive sackings of federal employees, ending of valuable service and also of deportations, including of people who have organised pro Palestinian protests. Often of people with the right to be in the US, sometimes by mistake (that somehow cannot be reversed) and …
Any dissent is too much for the Board of Deputies
By Leah Levane
Deep cracks are appearing in that most pro-Israel of institutions, the Board of Deputies of British Jews. 36 Deputies wrote a letter highly critical of what Israel is doing. the response from the President of the Board was swift and dismissive and rather filled with panic. He effectively acknowledges that the Board represents only those Jews who agree with him that it is always and ALL the fault of Hamas
Social media platforms remove pro-Palestinian posts
By JVL
internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News reveals that Meta has been complicit in a sweeping censorship campaign orchestrated by the Israeli government since October 7, 2023, removing or suppressing tens of millions of Facebook and Instagram posts critical of Israel or supportive of Palestinians. Internal Meta data shows that the company complied with …
There are two sides to the story of Exodus
By JVL
Jewish people are celebrating the annual Pesach (Passover) festival. As well as family Seders (the ceremonial meal usually just for the first two nights of the eight night festival) there are many Freedom or Liberation Seders where we remember not only that “we [Jews] were slaves in Egypt” and yearned for and were given freedom, …
Palestine solidarity proudly on display at National Education Union conference
Palestinian scarves and other symbols of solidarity were prevalent among the 1500+ delegates at this year’s annual conference of the National Education Union, where British Palestinian activist Leanne Mohamad addressed a PSC fringe meeting
A not-so-unorthodox history of British Jews
In his book An Unorthodox History, Gavin Schaffer argues against the common view that the British Jewish community is hidebound, conventional and decaying, focusing instead on diverse, heretical, “unorthodox” forms of being Jewish that have been developing since 1945 and have created a flourishing “fluid and vibrant community”.
At the same time he believes in the fundamental unity of the British Jewish community.
Deborah Maccoby, though she finds An Unorthodox History often engaging, is not convinced by this thesis.
Teasing apart his arguments which juggle with contradictory aspects, she queries how he deals with “Israel-critical Jews and the Zionist majority” and his conclusion that Zionism has largely “proved irresistible to British Jews”.
The Hamas case: “In the matter of an application for deproscription”
Robert Jenrick, shadow lord chancellor and justice secretary has said it is ‘sickening’ to see a London law firm argue that Hamas should no longer be designated as a terror group’.
Others are joining in the demonisation of those lawyers involved in representing Hamas.
In our view it is clearly in the public interest for the case to be heard.
For the benefit of our readers, we provide a detailed outline of the issues at stake in the post below.