UPDATE February 25 – Mike Leigh, Alexei Sayle, Miriam Margolyes and Gillian Slovo among 600+ British Jews calling on BBC to reject complaints about Gaza documentary. The updated list of names, posted below, has been sent to Tim Davie. More than 170 British Jews have rallied to support the BBC for its broadcast on Monday … Continued
By Leah Levane
Here Paul Rogers writes about the government’s astonishing lack of interest in scientists’ warnings about accelerating climate breakdown. They cling to a mantra of “growth, growth, growth”, hoping to claim more than the UK’s fair share of dwindling global resources to stave off the playing out of capitalism’s contradictions of unending growth on a finite …
By Leah Levane
Rather than criticism of Israel being equivalent to antisemitism, it is a challenge to Jewish exceptionalism and to anti Palestinian racism. Here a snapshot from Australia that will be all too familiar in the UK (and elsewhere in the world). The writer here provides examples of social media and other attacks on people who speak …
By Mike Cushman
When Mike Cushman travelled to Perth, Western Australia in January 2025 for a family visit he was not expecting to be invited to address a rally in defence of Gaza by local anti-Zionist Jews. We have split the video of his speech into two. The first describes the context of JVL: its history; the struggle …
By Leah Levane
Meir Kahane was an extreme right wing Israeli politician who believed in removing all “Arabs”. His views were considered so extreme that he was arrested more than 60 times in Israel. In 1984, his took the one seat that his Kach party gained but in 1988 he was barred from standing again. This article asserts that …
By Leah Levane
The attempts to destroy Gaza are now being echoed in the West Bank with c 40,000 people displaced from refugee camps, where homes are being destroyed and new roads laid to prevent rebuilding. As we had previously published, the Palestinian Authority operated their own clampdown, especially in Jenin Camp for 52 days after which the …
By Leah Levane
“The Israeli regime of 2025 suppresses criticism. When my parents shared with me their experiences in communist Poland, where the regime canceled theater performances, censored books and imprisoned those who dared criticize it, I counted myself fortunate to have been born in a country where none of this occurred. Well, it’s happening now. It has …
By Leah Levane
The impact for Israelis of October 7th 2023 was profound; trauma for those directly affected or with relatives and friends killed or captured and the shock that the Israeli Military had not provided the protection needed. Certainly, for Israelis the IDF is not the institution they thought it was and many, even at senior levels …
By Leah Levane
In the South Hebron Hills, as in most parts of Area C in the Wet Bank, demolitions are an all too regular occurrence that we rarely hear about; compared with the horrors of Gaza and even the destruction of Jenin and Tulkarm, these all too common experiences rarely make the news.
By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction This is the 16th in the Jewish Journeys from Zionism series and, like the others, makes for fascinating reading. Jonathan Rosenhead grew up in Liverpool and is active on the Executive of JVL and is also Chair of BRICUP – the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine. Once again our huge thanks … Continued