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Tell your politicians: Israel must NOT ban UNRWA

By Leah Levane

The information needed to write to your political representatives to urge them to put pressure on Israel NOT to ban UNRWA reminding them (as in a joint statement by the UK and 6 other governments” that without “services, including education, health care, and fuel distribution in Gaza and the West Bank would be severely hampered if not impossible, with devastating consequences on an already critical and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, particularly in northern Gaza.”

Experience of Palestinian Women prisoners – solidarity as well as hardship

By Leah Levane

Palestinian women incarcerated by Israel are rarely written about. Their numbers have always been small compared with male political prisoners but, of course,  there is always a particular vulnerability for women.  This article focuses on the solidarity women find as well as education and campaigning from behind the bars of their Israeli jail.

I renounce my Israeli Citizenship: it is a tool of genocide

By Leah Levane

In this powerful piece, there are many reasons cited for the author renouncing his Israeli citizenship, citing Torah teachings as well as his awareness of Jewish solidarity with liberation movements. However, at root he has done this because he sees Israeli citizenship as illegal, based as it is on the Nakba and all that has …

Labour’s Year of Descent

By Leah Levane

Mike Phipps has written a helpful review of 2024 focusing mainly on Labour’s (poor) performance, despite the “landslide” victory at the July election. Just six months on, Labour’s vote is down and it is losing at council by elections – all too often to Reform. 

Was Carter the Best Ex President of the USA? (2)

By Leah Levane

Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.  His one term Presidency ended on January 20th 1981. He is known as a humanitarian and for applying the word “apartheid” to Israel. There is no doubting his commitment to humanity since 2001 eg participating in The Elders Group started by Mandela but …

Was Carter the best Ex President of the USA? (1)

By Leah Levane

Carter had a decency most politicians lack, but his moral crusades, which came once he was out of power, seem like a form of penance. His record as president is bloody and dismal, although not as bloody and dismal as the presidents who followed. That’s the best we can say of him. (Domestically and Internationally)

Joe Sacco: War On Gaza

By Leah Levane

Interview with graphic novelist Joe Sacco on his new book “War On Gaza” within which this exchange: “.. I didn’t think about superheroes. I seldom think of superheroes or supervillains. I just see sociopaths with a hell of a lot of power at their disposal.”

The EU know what is happening in Gaza – so why no action?

By Leah Levane

The Eu has been given clear evidence of Israel’s crimes and yet continues to work with them against their own Agreement. As Yannis Varoufakis comments, the Europeans will not be able to plead ignorance: “The world now knows that they knew they were in breach of international law because they were explicitly told so by the EU’s own special representative on human rights. History will judge them harshly. And perhaps so will the ICC.” 

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