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Report on Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’

By Richard Kuper

Do states have a right to exist?

Among the many submissions to justify the deproscription of Hamas as a terrorist organisation is one by legal expert John Dugard.

He writes: “The right of a State to exist is not a concept recognized by international law. It is not recognized in any treaty, in customary international law or in legal literature… A State has a right to its territorial integrity and political independence and not to be forcibly attacked by another State…This, however, is not a right to exist.”

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The proscription of Hamas

By Richard Kuper

As lawyers attempt to challenge the proscription of Hamas as a terrorist organisation in the UK, we repost this written submission made to the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs’ for “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” inquiry in February 2025, In it  Professor Jeroen Gunning, one of the world’s leading experts on Hamas, argues strongly that proscription of …

A Holocaust in Gaza and a Fascist regime in Israel

By Leah Levane

Andrew Feinstein speaks about why it is unacceptable cannot normalise what is being done to the people of Gaza that we are witnessing and about which the whole world – and our politicians – are aware.  Yet the barbarism and dehumanisation is happening with the active support of western leaders, many of whom are clamping …

MP’s call: investigate the ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’

By Leah Levane

The Charity Commission (CC) informed John McDonnell MP in November 2024 that they were going to reopen an investigation into the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA). In recent  years there was a regulatory compliance review after many complaints, including successive submissions by JVL since 202,  but  that review was closed down with no obvious signs of …

A message for Passover in a time of genocide

By Leah Levane

JVL Introduction The Jewish Festival of Passover begins (began) at sunset on 12th April.  It is the festival where we talk about the experience of Jews being enslaved in Egypt and of their getting their freedom.  We are asked to tell the story in every generation so that we understand what freedom means.  When the … Continued

We have to talk about Palestine at Passover

By Leah Levane

Rabbi Brant Rosen who leads an antizionist Jewish congregation in Chicago writes regular blogs and has three posts about Pesach (Passover) in the context of the ongoing destruction of Gaza and the  ramping up of violence and displacement in the West Bank.  How can we, as Jews, celebrate our freedom from oppression while Palestinians are …

Stephen Kapos – how to be a mensch through turbulent times

By Leah Levane

This fascinating interview with Stephen Kapos reveals much about how he lived through turbulent times: life under the Horty dictatorship; the Nazi occupation of Hungary and the Holocaust; Stalinism; the Hungarian uprising; and as a refugee in the UK. He avoided marches for many years for good reasons but is now a stalwart on the …

If the IDF kills you, you become Hamas

By Mike Cushman

It is not news that the IDF lies repeatedly, claiming that whoever they kill—journalist, medic, rescue worker—is a Hamas terrorist and that every school and hospital they bomb is a Hamas command centre. In their eyes even babies are future terrorists.

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