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Zionism’s opponents want equality not expulsion of Jews

By Leah Levane

Do anti-Zionists want to drive Jews into the sea? No, they want the end of Jewish supremacy and a state based on equality. The statement “we have nowhere else to go” is merely a convenient excuse because the groups leading the struggle for Palestinian rights are not calling for the expulsion of Jews from the country. (If anything, this statement raises the question of whether the author believes that Jews cannot exist without constitutional supremacy over others.)”

Legal Scrutiny over banning Palestine Action

By Leah Levane

Craig Murray outlines what has been happening regarding Palestine Action activists and its proscription in courts and the attempts to prevent Juries from hearing the full picture, eg of the motivation of those who participated in Palestine Action.  He notes that Juries have usually found the defendants not guilty, at least of some of the most serious charges.

Raffi Berg: In his own words

By Richard Kuper

Senior broadcast journalist Martin Asser provides a devastating account of how the BBC has given free rein to its proudly Zionist Digital Middle East editor, Raffi Berg

How can there be a parade to salute Israel in 2026?

By Leah Levane

New York hosts the annual Israel Day Parade on 31st May. Gideon Levy is furious at the idea Whom are you saluting? How can you continue parading as if nothing happened, as if Israel has not committed crimes, as if it hasn’t turned into a pariah state across the world and only in New York you march, waving its flag? Are you not ashamed?

Israel is throttling the Palestinians in Gaza

By Richard Kuper

The ceasefire of October 2025 in Gaza is a sick joke. Ever since then Israel has been steadily increasing its grip on the territory, refashioning the geographical environment.

Netanyahu is quite shameless about his intention: “We now control 60% of the territory in the strip. You know, we were at 50%, we moved to 60%. My directive is to move to … First 70%. Let’s start with that.”

Ungrounding: the Architecture of Genocide

By Richard Kuper

 Here is the publisher’s blurb Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. As director of the organisation Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers document acts of state crimes and human rights violations around the world. Since … Continued

Jewish communal leaders and media always look for the worst interpretation

By Richard Kuper

Jewish communal bodies and politicians who should know better continue to work themselves up into a froth about the omnipresence of antisemitism and the imminence of doom and disaster.

We’re in the midst of one such moral panic and it is instructive to learn that we in Britain are not alone.

This story from New York City come from a quite different context from what we face in Britain; yet the structure of the response is similar.

How (Not so) Insidious Islamophobia shapes our thinking

By Leah Levane

Anti-Muslim rhetoric, certainly regarding Muslims as “a problem” has become largely normalised in many countries whereas antisemitism is (rightly) not.  Kenneth Mohammed gives many examples of how Muslims and Islam are portrayed contributes to Islamophobia and argues that this makes the world less safe for Jews as well as for Muslims. 

From a Zionist youth to an anti-Zionist adulthood

By Leah Levane

The film explores Diana Neslen’s journey from a Zionist youth to an active campaigner against the apartheid state of Israel. Diana Neslen was born in South Africa in 1939. The formative influences in her early life were her special needs sister, the Holocaust and Apartheid. These public and private influences instilled in her a passion for justice and equality which never wavered.

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