By Leah Levane
There are few punches pulled in this piece. Israel seems now to be wanting to displace more and more Palestinians into every reducing areas of Gaza. We need to keep reminding people that Israel broke the ceasefire – again and again – even during the two months when the massive bombardments stalled. Hamas kept to …
By Leah Levane
The effects of poverty are dramatically and tragically reflected in our health. A new Report from the Royal College of Physicians includes some staggering examples. Nearly all respondents to the RCP’s survey expressed concern about this and “46% said that at least a half of their workload was due to illnesses linked to social and economic factors …
By Leah Levane
Like its namesakes in other countries, Betar US are not only zionist but, on its website, “describes its members as “Jewish warriors” and proclaims they are “loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically zionist. We aren’t the nice, polite Jews.” This group is proudly and openly reporting people who are pro Palestinian to the authorities, which has …
Mike Phipps reviews Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund’s book Get In, focusing on Morgan McSweeney’s role in Keir Starmer’s rise to the Labour leadership and subsequent rapid political shift to the right.
By Leah Levane
Prof David Miller won a landmark Employment Tribunal victory against Bristol University for sacking him because of his anti-Zionist views. Now, Tony Greenstein explains, he is expressing views about Jews that endanger the anti-Zionist movement.
An illuminating look at Reform UK from inside its rally in Birmingham on March 28.
This book chapter documents the genocidal character of Israel’s ongoing onslaught and argues that it represents a logical (though not inevitable) culmination of dynamics that have figured centrally in Israel’s policy objectives and political culture since before the establishment of the State.
By Mike Cushman
Mike Cushman was not surprised when the Labour Party expulsion machine returned their attention to me after failing to achieve their purpose in several earlier attempts. I kept silent about my expulsion as I decided to give them a generous benefit of the doubt and act as though the appeal process they offered was genuine.
I am far more concerned to document the rampant injustice of the Party’s discipline procedures than to extend my connection to a Party that causes further distress to most impoverished in our society and that is complicit to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
By Leah Levane
George Monbiot outlines some of the ways in which protest is being more and more constrained with draconian measures against those broadly on the left, objecting to the use of fossil foils and its impact on the climate and the environment as well, of course, on those protesting this government’s support for the genocidal actions …
By Leah Levane
It is well known that Jews were “disproportionately” represented in many progressive movements such as that for racial equality in the USA and the anti-apartheid movement within and beyond South Africa. But who knew that Jewish people may have made up about a quarter of those who fought for freedom from fascism under Franco and …