By Leah Levane
This story from Susiya on the edge of Masafer Yatta, in the shadow of a Settlement, is simply awful. The sheer joy of the Oscar win and then the reality of intensified attacks from settlers and soldiers on Susiya and many other parts of the South Hebron Hills, especially Um Al Khair and Jinba. This …
By JVL
Marilyn Garson, from Aotearoa New Zealand, is an observant Jew. She worked in Cambodia and Afghanistan before spending four years in Gaza, during which the 2014 bombardment of the Strip took place. On her return, her attempts to tell the story of the community of Gaza were met with hostility in her synagogue, where she was a full participant. This experience is shared by many of JVL’s observant members.
The UK government can no longer deny that support for Israel’s war on Palestine is dwindling, even in Parliament, and yet it remains steadfast in adopting a cowardly and hypocritical pose of feigned impotence.
Is Donald Trump a devoted ally of Israel who will give it whatever it needs to pursue its genocidal goals, or does the US President have other ideas about American interests in the Middle East that could weaken Benjamin Netanhayu’s far-right government?
As Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that “not even a [single] grain of wheat will enter the [occupied Gaza] Strip”, leading UN officials issued a desperate plea to world leaders to act “urgently and decisively” to uphold basic principles of international humanitarian law.
By Leah Levane
Leading human rights lawyers have presented a dossier to the Met police about the actions of ten British people who have been fighting in Gaza within the Israeli Army. The dossier is based on extensive research that they believe show these individuals are guilty of committing war crimes. This is extremely important; Britain has a …
By JVL
Tao Leigh Goffe has written a book about the founding exploitation for environmental breakdown. She traces the possible extinction of much of life on earth to the colonisation of indigenous, Black and Brown peoples, starting from the setting foot of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean. The book has received much attention and mixed reviews. It is described in review we reprint here from Damien Gayle in the Guardian as “groundbreaking” but also as failing “to develop a coherent analysis”, in a critical article by John Clarke in Counterfire. For, Goffe is also a collage artist and uses narrative juxtaposition to create multiple foci of interest, rather than a linear exposition. So, there is detail about the effect of colonisation on biodiversity, a theme also emphasised by Mazin Qumsiyeh in Palestine, as well as wide ranging consequences of imperialism in the Americas, Africa and Asia.
The so-called Independent Press Standards Organisation IPSO seems to be straining every sinew to avoid having to use the powers it could wield to investigate the Jewish Chronicle’s recurrent editorial failures.
Guardian journalists have spoken to IDF combatants corroborating a new report from Breaking the Silence, describing how Israeli forces are destroying everything in a 1km (0.6 mile) wide “buffer zone” inside the Gaza perimeter. It provides “a clear line of sight for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to identify and kill militants”.
By Leah Levane
As we watch the horrors being perpetrated by Israel on our phones we learn that “Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply”. The politicians try to treat this as “business as usual” and perhaps call for calm while clamping down on those standing up for Palestine. But it will not work. We have seen too much and we will not accept this as normal. We are angry, we are upset and we will make the connections about whose interests are being considered.