Resisting repression, sustaining solidarity
Although the latest national demonstration for Palestine on February 15 went off relatively free of explicit police repression, we cannot afford to be complacent.
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Killing the land to end Palestinian presence
By Leah Levane
The Refusers Solidarity Network is a small but important group of people refusing to fight for Israel is also engaged in solidarity work with Palestinians. Here is a description of time spent in Masafer Yatta supporting olive growers. They note that “Refusing the war also means refusing ecocide in all its forms: across Israel-Palestine, the …
Singing Bella Ciao for Palestine
By Leah Levane
At the peace protests on Saturday the 18th of January and again on 15th February around fifty protesters in and around the Jewish Bloc, sang a version of Bella Ciao written by Tony Booth, calling for a mass movement for Palestinian justice and an end to apartheid and genocide
The map is changing – we must keep resisting
By Leah Levane
Moshe Machover founded Matzpen in Israel before the six day war in 1967 and moved to the UK. Here his grandson, also a strong advocate for Palestinian rights, asked some questions about what is happening and what we can do. Among other things, Moshe said: “I still think there is a place for a Jewish contingent …
Labour’s defence of authoritarianism – a danger to us all
By Leah Levane
Why does Labour have no plans to repeal the draconian anti protest laws introduced by the Tory government? We know that Labour’s failure to offer any meaningful ways to improve the living conditions and security for working class – and middle class – people in this country is leaving the path clear for the far …
Stand Up for Palestine and Be Counted
By Leah Levane
This blog post was written after attending a powerful meeting about anti Palestinian racism. The free speech warriors at Meta (Facebook) took it down, so we are pleased to post this. The strong request from the speaker was that we wear our support for Palestine as a way of showing support to the people and …
They tried to silence her – they failed
By Leah Levane
The Free (sic) University of Berlin cancelled a presentation by Francesca Albanese, entitled “Conditions of a life to be destroyed. Legal and forensic perspectives on the ongoing Gaza genocide”. Ms Albanese is the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. The reason given by the University management for the cancellation was “incalculable security risks”. …
UPDATE: Jewish support grows for letter to BBC defending Gaza film
UPDATE – As of Tuesday evening, February 25, more than 600 British Jews have publicly endorsed calls on the BBC to reinstate on iPlayer the documentary Gaza: How to survive a Warzone. The updated list of names has been sent to Tim Davie and appears at the end of this post. Thanks are due to …
Antisemitism is real – but…
By Mike Cushman
Janet Parker draws on experience in Australia and elsewhere. She shows how stunts to produce alarm by provoking an antisemitic response distract from real problems of antisemitism and do Jews a disservice. This campaign to exaggerate antisemitism allocates responsibility to opponents of genocide rather than on the radical right where it belongs. The aim is …
Like Jews in the 1930s, Palestinians are seen as “a problem”
By Leah Levane
A heartfelt plea from a Palestinian man including the parallels he sees from history in “…the way Jewish people were treated in Europe – not just during the Holocaust, but in the centuries leading up to it… how, over time, their humanity was eroded in the eyes of the world until the unthinkable became possible …