By Leah Levane
The UK government is reviewing its funding for UNRWA because of the claim by one of the released Israeli hostages Emily Damari that she was kept in UNRWA premises and not given the medical treatment that she needed: see, eg Jewish News. Emily Damari had a terrible ordeal: kept a hostage for more than 15 …
By Leah Levane
The “plans” to redevelop Gaza under Israeli control are not as new as some of the mainstream media would have us believe. The Daily Express on February 17th outlined the plans under the heading Benjamin Netanyahu shown shocking plans to redevelop Gaza into ‘idyllic settlement’. (my emph. Ed) Their article incorrectly states that: “The blueprints come after …
By Leah Levane
When Will Germany Ever Learn? In this detailed analysis of the many ways in which Germany is getting it so very wrong in its suppression of free speech on Palestine and Israel; its clamping down on protest and opportunities for learning. Furthermore, as he reports, Germany has created a Commissioner for Anti-Semitism (Antisemitismusbeauftragte) with “representatives …
By Leah Levane
Francesa Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine was due to speak on February 19th at the ‘Free’ University of Berlin together with Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture at an event named: ‘Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy – Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide.’ However, it seems that German students must not …
By Leah Levane
Zionism has always seen ethnic cleansing as inevitable and necessary; this had nothing to do with the Holocaust or of “Arab” resistance. The early zionists believed that a Jewish State meant a State only for Jews. That they have tried to turn their failure to expel all the Palestinians in 1948 is used as “proof” that this …
By Leah Levane
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner is the son of two Holocaust survivors, an Israeli and a long standing supporter of the rights of the Palestinian people and opponent of zionism. His powerful and passionate critique of Trump’s “plan makes an important read. Of Trump’s plans to make Gaza “the Riviera of the Middle East” Bresheeth-Žabner writes “This is …
By Leah Levane
We are pleased to post this review of Omar El Akkad’s book ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’. His anguish and questioning at the appalling bombardment of Gaza, including self questioning looks like compelling reading and, of course, the context is not forgotten. For example he takes aim at “a fiction of …
By Leah Levane
To witness Netanyahu smiling smugly as Trump talked about ethnic cleansing of Gaza was excruciating but unsurprising. Many Jews in the US made their objections clear with an advert in the New York Times (full list of signatories here.) Below this short piece from Skwawkbox is another from the organisers; both sections have suggestions for …
By Leah Levane
Trump’s appalling “plan” for expelling people from Gaza is not a new idea. The idea of “population transfer” or rather ethnic cleansing is rooted in the earliest ideas of Zionism, long before 1948 or the rise of Nazism. Here reference is made to many early zionist leaders who called for the removal of Palestinians, including: …
By Leah Levane
This thoughtful piece seeks to address the way in which many Jews – and their institutions – identify with the Israeli hostages and seem to lack empathy for Palestinians. Targeted at Jews who are observant, we know that for observant Jews in our networks, the emotional reaction outlined here will be all too familiar. For …