By Leah Levane
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the ludicrous charges against Hastings nurse Chris Dindar but not before an early morning raid by police, terrifying his young daughter and nearly a year of stress. His “crime”: displacing some Israeli produced hummus that was then “unfit for consumption as a result, causing a financial loss to the …
By Leah Levane
Omar Barghouti sets out the case for more Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions to stop Trump’s Plan for the USA to take over Gaza. He is clear about how evil this plan is but alo links the current situation of ethnic cleansing to other colonial regimes. As well as noting David Ben Gurion saying that wiping …
By Leah Levane
Two health workers who expressed their support for Palestine have been vindicated after a Grievance Panel found that the NHS Trust had breached their own codes. They are now planning to take their case to a Employment Tribunal – where the right to hold anti Zionist views was confirmed in a ruling in relation to …
By Leah Levane
This thoughtful but rather pessimistic article about rebuilding Gaza does spell out some of the difficulties and calls for a new Marshall Plan – although this time without US involvement. It is certainly correct to remind us that this is a political as well as a huge practical issue. The writer seems, however, not to …
By Leah Levane
Palestinians who experienced the Nakba in 1948 resist leaving Gaza. Saaed Salam remembers fleeing the bombs when he was five “When the truth became clear, that we had abandoned our homes and others had taken them, we wished a thousand times that we had stayed and faced death instead. The regret never left us.” Along …
By Leah Levane
Michael Rosen has written another powerful poem for this moment: this moment when Trump is talking about creating “the riviera of the Middle East”: Amoment of intense suffering for Palestinians, while we are somehow still supposed to focus on ‘Jewish pain’ Michael asks why.
By Leah Levane
There is an often cited fact that the proportion of people in Gaza with a PhD is the highest in the world. We might wonder what there is to fear from an educated population since, for example, the US and the EU may freeze funding for Palestinian education on the basis that the textbooks are …
By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction The Labour Party has faced up to the contradiction between its policies promoting GDP growth and those pursuing policies to meet its legal targets to curb carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050. It has decided to come down on the side of growth. In the unfortunate words of Rachel Reeves, “growth trumps other … Continued
By Leah Levane
Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza and its sending gas into tunnels was seemingly done with no concerns for Palestinian civilian and little enough for Israeli hostages. One Israeli security source said: “It was insane…You’re bombing the house of someone suspected of being a kidnapper. By sheer luck, we didn’t kill dozens of hostages. There weren’t …
By Leah Levane
This piece includes fury at Trump but also at the western leaders and media who enabled the pulverisation of Gaza for more than 15 months but are now shocked at Trump’s ‘plan’. Surely ethnic cleansing was the plan all along as it has been for many Israeli politicians for decades? If the ceasefire was fully …