By Leah Levane
The Irish Times publishing an Opinion piece by a former Director of BT’Selem in the wake of Israel closing its Embassy in Dublin on the basis that Ireland was being antisemitic for backing South Africa at the ICJ. As an introduction, we publish the Statement made by Jews for Palestine – Ireland
By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction This is the 15th in the series “Jewish Journeys from Zionism”. At 96 years old, John is the oldest person JVL member Kitty Warnock has interviewed and his experiences are varied and many including spending six years in Hebron and the South Hebron Hills. As always we thank Kitty for her work interviewing … Continued
By Leah Levane
We want to remind our readers of the importance of supporting independent media in Israel and are encouraging our readers to donate to +972 magazine, which we use extensively on this website as we value the insights from within Israel. We feel it is important to be reminded that there are still alternative voices inside … Continued
Aditya Chakrabortty convincingly asserts that Keir Starmer will bear much of the blame if Nigel Farage surfs a right-wing, anti-immigrant wave into Downing Street in the near future
By Leah Levane
We are delighted that, with permission from the author and original publishers, a special copy, ie an actual book “Jewish Not Zionist” will shortly be available in the UK. Written by Marilyn Garson who now lives in Aoteoroa (New Zealand). We published a review of the book in mid November but are posting this both …
By Leah Levane
On the same day that 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media released a new report titled “Erased and Suppressed: Palestinian Testimonies of Meta’s Censorship”, the BBC has also published evidence of Meta’s discriminatory practices. We are pleased to see and to post the BBC Report but we would strongly recommend …
By Leah Levane
The Bibi files is now on release in the UK and this interview with the film maker Alexis Bloom makes for interesting reading, not least because of the difficulties getting this screened and, indeed, more generally how documentaries are struggling as distributors seem to want to focus on “entertainment” and True Crime. Netanyahu has done everything to delay the trial but it is now taking place even though Tuesday’s proceedings were cancelled while he undertook a planned trip to Hermon in Syria.
Artists rally to defend a youth theatre company and director under attack by pro-Israel activists.
Peter Beinart sees a market for spokespeople who can dress Zionism in progressive garb, now that few prominent figures speak the required language fluently. Bernard-Henri Lévy fits the bill with his manichean fantasy of inherent Jewish moral superiority.
By Leah Levane
Olives are of huge cultural – and, of course, – eco0nomic importance for Palestinians. The 2024 harvest has come under unprecedented levels of attack from soldiers and settlers. This is nothing new but this year those attacks have bee extreme such that some farmers have been completely unable to access their land or, when finally given permission to do so, found that their trees have already been harvested by settlers.