Rashid Khalidi speaks at a New York Jewish salon
Listening to eminent Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi offered a group of Jewish New Yorkers a chance to break out of the bubble many occupy regarding Israel.
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What most Israelis choose not to know
Israeli historian Lee Mordechai’s massive archive of material called “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War” constitutes a methodical and detailed documentation of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. It is a shocking indictment.
Magic, rational or critical: embedding inequality or challenging inequality
By Mike Cushman
Current political developments pose a challenge to the usual ways of framing attempts to analyse them. How can we understand movements in constant flux and leaders who defy categorisation in terms commonly employed by academics and commentators of all ideological stripes?
Mike Cushman proposes a fresh approach by dividing them into three: magical, rational and critical.
Amnesty International confirms it is genocide in Gaza
By Mike Cushman
Amnesty’s new report leaves no doubt that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Its findings are based on detailed reports of Israel’s actions in Gaza, over 200 interviews and careful review of statements made by leading Israeli politicians and soldiers. It set this evidence against the 1948 Genocide Convention prohibited acts and in particular: “killing members of the group”; “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”; and “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.
The conclusions are damning and the UK must cease aiding and abetting genocide.
Reflections from Occupied Palestine
By Leah Levane
Felicity Laurence talks to Mohammad Maragha, both are musicians and campaigners: Among the people of Gaza, still there is incredible resilience and courage, kindness and mutual support. This takes many forms, among them the efforts to look after the children and bring them respite and even moments of joy in whatever ways might be possible. One source of such work is the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM) , which has six branches across occupied Palestine, including Gaza
Rashid Khalidi: Israel has created a nightmare for itself
By Leah Levane
In this long but important interview Rashid Khalidi raises a number of issues including the value and success of BDS, the changing attitudes towards Israel, the weakness and mistakes of Palestinian leaders past and present. Among many other works, Khalidi wrote “The Hundred Years War on Palestine” in 2020 that has been updated to include …
#BoycottCoke! Coca Cola is now on the BDS priority list
As consumers are increasingly shunning Coca-Cola across the Middle East and wider, the Palestinian BDS National Committee explains why it has made #BoycottCoke a priority campaign.
Art of Gaza – a determined act of defiance and resilience
By Leah Levane
A Gaza Biennale – a heroic idea and “also a statement of intent that the biennale will be a recurring event and that Gaza and artists will still be standing in two years’ time.” It aims to also be “an artistic proof of life in the face of an attempt to strip Gaza’s Palestinians of …
Labour’s war on protest
Keir Starmer’s Labour government won’t repeal draconian Tory anti-protest laws because it will not take political action that would make unnecessary the kind of protests their predecessors were trying to repress.
Digest 4 – Selected Additional Reading
Another roundup of interesting and informative articles which we have not chosen to foreground in individual posts for various reason, but all of which we’d like to draw to our readers’ attention.