As Jewish Voice for Peace protestors occupy Trump Tower demanding the release of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, Jacobin Magazine sets the enormity of the affair in context. “No one is even pretending that Khalil is being targeted for any reason other than the politics of the protests he participated in,” writes Ben Burgis.
By Leah Levane
This is the 25th National March and the Jewish Bloc will be assembling on Saturday from 11.45 in Stratton Street at the corner with Mayfair Place W1J 8LAThe pressure must be kept up and if you can, please do go to the march. The ceasefire remains fragile and Israel is now blocking aid and has … Continued
By Leah Levane
Tonight, Thursday March 11th marks the start of Purim; a festival where Jewish people are encouraged to dress up and have fun. Peter Beinart explains the festival itself in the article but emphasises that too often while Jews remember and celebrate that Jews were saved from an extermination edict we rarely note the murders then perpetrated by Jews on the enemy’s people
Reaction from senior and respected media figures to cancellation of a Royal Television Society (RTS) Special Award for journalists in Gaza could mark a watershed moment in the sorry saga of institutional capitulation to pro-Israel lobbying.
US student organisers defiant statement following the arrest of Palestinian activist Mohammed Khalil by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Under cover of a crumbling Trump-brokered ceasefire, Israel has shifted its attention to the West Bank in a move Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik describes as “a forever war of permanent vengeance”.
BBC’s latest documentary “breathes life back into a racist western narrative – one that made the genocide in Gaza possible, and justifies Israel’s return this month to using mass starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinian people.”
No one commentary could reconcile the differences that have opened up about the Oscar winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary film No Other Land. Kenan Malik has a good stab at it in this article.
International Women’s Day on March 8 this year was marked by many events and publications celebrating the role women play in the Palestinian struggle.
The Foundation for Middle East Peace has been a consistent source of analysis of the occupation over decades. It invariably draws attention to pieces we would otherwise miss. This digest summarises a number of pieces we have already reposted, and many that we have not.