By Leah Levane
The government are planning to give police more powers to restrict protests and, furthermore, seem to see an equivalence with the racist attack on Mosques last summer with marches for justice for Palestine being in the vicinity of a synagogue. The Palestine Coalition has issued the statement, which we are happy to share. Chris Nineham, …
By Leah Levane
Joseph Finlay makes the case for a new Jewish denomination be created from synagogues in the Liberal and Reform movements; their likely merger is unlikely to resurrect their radical, antizionist, anti nationalist past and he argue that a new denomination should distance itself not only from the State of Israel but also from the British State
By Leah Levane
After several years, a Jewish man, expelled from the Labour Party for antisemitism has been exonerated, but is not going to rejoin the Party . In this article, Skwawkbox says that Labour’s ‘Independent Complaints Board’ (ICB)’s findings indicate that “the party is still ignoring the 2020 findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), …
By Leah Levane
Hamdan Ballal is one of the winners of the Best Documentary Oscar for the film “No Other Land”, which chronicles the settler attacks backed by Israeli soldiers in Masafer Yatta and the surrounding area where he lives. Last week he was arrested, along with two other Palestinians who were trying to stop a vicious settler …
By Leah Levane
Staff at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) called for a boycott as one of the targets of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The GFT agreed to stop stocking Coca-Cola products. Now, inevitably, complaints have been made about the organisation, which is a charity, but this reports states that the Office of the Scottish Charity …
This article from the Disability News Service, written prior to Rachel Reeves’ latest assault on society’s most vulnerable, provides an alarming accompaniment to George Monbiot’s Double Down News video that you can see below, which highlights the connection between the actions of Trump and those of Starmer and his government not only on disability and …
Many people have noted how little appears in mainstream media to help audiences empathise with Palestinians in all their diverse humanity. In a corrective to that scandalous absence, Al Jazeera has produced an extraordinary graphic representation of the thousands of children killed by Israeli aggression. Let it be a tale.
By Mike Cushman
Professor Avi Shlaim has published an article, Scholasticide in Gaza, in the prestigious Journal of the British Academy on the deliberate eradication of the entire education system in Gaza from kindergartens to universities: a process who describes as Scholasticide.
Amidst relentlessly grim reports from Palestine, it is heartening to hear news of a unanimous decision by Oxford city council to pass a boycott and divestment motion and a new pro-Palestine student encampment in Glasgow.
By Leah Levane
Miriam (Miki) David is a leading member of JVL’s Education Group and a long term activist with Women In Black. Here she outlines a little of the history and the current weekly vigils held in support of the people of Gaza and to show their opposition to Israel’s bombardment and oppression of the Palestinians people.
Although their focus is on all people in Gaza, as feminists, there is a particular interest in women’s experience.