By Leah Levane
Do march if you possibly can on Saturday 18th July 2026 to send a clear message to the new Prime Minister. The Jewish Bloc is meeting at noon at the South West Corner of Russell Square (closest to Montagu Street) WC1B 4JP Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s website announcing the march states: Keir Starmer has finally been … Continued
A rupture is developing the Catholic church over Palestine.
While the first year of Leo’s pontificate has consistently revolved the need for empathy as the hallmark of both personal and collective conduct, writes Paula Caridi, there is a glaring absence.
Pope Leo is prepared to invoke the immense suffering of the Palestinian people but not – yet? – to name the perpetrator, Israel, or to describe the reality as a genocide.
By Leah Levane
The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital refused to abandon his patients, even after his son was killed and he himself was wounded. Today, he is being held without charge in an Israeli prison. If Israel allows him to die there, it will annihilate a Palestinian symbol of heroism
By Leah Levane
Israel’s prisons (or Israel’s Guatanamo) now have new rules, issued last month, limit the International Committee of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (ICRC) to just four visits a year and insists that a list of no more than five prisoners that it wants to visit is a submitted in advance.
By Leah Levane
Nesrine Malik writes with clarity and some despair on the treatment of Palestinians incarcerated by Israel. starting with the inestimable Dr. Hassam Abu Safiya but refering to many others as well. What is perhaps most shocking is how well known this is, how well documented, including, for example by Israel soldiers and, more laudably by Israeli Human Rights organisation BT’Selem. Despite this, the torture continues and is denied again and again and Israel is still barely subject to meaningful sanctions by any government.
By Leah Levane
The Church of England’s General Synod has resisted the pressure from the UK’s Chief Rabbi and others from the Jewish Establishment who wanted them not even to debate the motion from Carlisle asking the Church to engage with the Kairos II document. (see our Ultimate Chutzpah article here) The debate began on 12th and continued on 13th July when they voted in favour of the motion. voted in favour of the motion, despite the warnings from the Chief Rabbi.
By Leah Levane
Israel claims to be a liberal democracy and expects to be treated as such by the international community. These expectations are unendingly reiterated by that State’s supporters throughout the world and heavy criticism. Jonathan Cook outlines some of the ways that Israel operates as an apartheid state on both sides of the Green Line
By Leah Levane
The clampdown on free speech has been identified internationally, here Spence refers to the 2026 report from censorship tracker Freemuse that usually focuses on regimes such as Iran and UAE but this time “dedicated a section to the cancellation of Palestinian expression in UK cultural institutions”. This too shall end
A new film, Life Support, released on July 10, provides a breathtaking insight into Israel’s destruction of Gaza seen through the eyes of dedicated medics who have been the sole international witnesses.
An elderly Methodist preacher is set to launch the first legal challenge to the UK government’s use of a contested definition of antisemitism after ministers used it to force a charity to remove her as a trustee over a Facebook post in which she described Israel as an apartheid state. Bea Foster, a … Continued