The ecology of dispossession

11th July 2026

We provide below an overview of the issues covered by New York based environmental and human rights activist, Diana Kruzman who looks at how ecology has been weaponised in pursuit of the Zionist project.

WE also provide some information about Irus Braverman’s 2003 book Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel on which Kruzman draws.

The overall message is clear: ecological and environmental justifications are an essential part of Israel’s settler-colonial regime, actively deployed in the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinians.

The Condemnatory National Jewish Assembly – an exchange re Zack Polanski

11th July 2026

By Leah Levane

The Jewish Nationala Assembly (incorporating “We Believe in Israel” issued a statement condemning Zack Polanski’s call for Monitoring and Investigation of British Nationals Who Have Served in the IDF . We wrote to them, they did answer and also said that “We are entirely comfortable with readers considering both your letter and our response and reaching their own conclusions.”

Ultimate Chutzpah from the UK Jewish Establishment

10th July 2026

By Leah Levane

The Chief Rabbi and others in the UK Jewish Establishment wants to control what the Church of England discuss at its upcoming Synod and prevent them from discussing a document produced by Palestinian Christians. The very idea that there could be consideration given to Kairos II, the new document produced by Kairos Palestine, is anathema to these self-appointed arbiters of permitted discourse – and, indeed, of perspective.

Israel’s “free press”: censorship and self-censorship

10th July 2026

By Richard Kuper

Last year, the Israeli military censor halted the publication of an average of two articles per day by media outlets in Israel, while interfering in the content of another 13. This makes 2025 the second-highest year on record for media censorship in Israel since +972 Magazine began tracking it 15 years ago — According to … Continued

US Media’s complicity over Israel’s genocide

10th July 2026

By Richard Kuper

In The Complicit Lens Robin Andersen looks at the response to October 7 and the genocide in Gaza. Her focus is on the US Establishment media in particular.

It was, as we are painfully aware, to echo the framing put forward by the Israeli government.

The detail is telling. In chapter after chapter, incident by incident…

Imminent danger to Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life

9th July 2026

By Richard Kuper

Amnesty International has issued a warning concerning Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya making it clear that he is in critical condition because of the abusive treatment he has been subjected to in Israeli detention.

Dr Safiya is a Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist who served as the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip from February-December 2024, when it was emptied by the Israeli army.

Soon after, Dr Safiya was arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned without charges or trial under what Amnesty describes as the “cruel and abusive Unlawful Combatants Law”.

What 1000 days of Gaza genocide looks like

8th July 2026

By Leah Levane

2nd July 2026 marks 1000 days of the Gaza genocide. Here Al Jazeera outlines some of the impact with 90% of Gaza destroyed or damaged and Israel occupying up to 80% of the Strip. The so called Board of Peace is making no progress “There are no shared policies or even a shared vision,” analyst Iyad Jouda told Al Jazeera, adding that the board “has deviated from its main purpose”, which is “unifying the Gaza Strip and the West Bank”. The board is also out of money as billions of dollars in pledges have yet to arrive.

A death camp denser than Srebenica

8th July 2026

By Leah Levane

Israel is cramming the people of Gaza into an ever smaller amount of land. To compare, the people of Gaza is now crammed into an area smaller than Srebrenica – “but with a population over 50 times larger and a density roughly 60 times higher, all amidst rubble, waste, and a severe lack of basic living conditions.”

I told you so, Israel “supporters”

7th July 2026

By Richard Kuper

There is more than a hint of schadenfreude in this delightful piece by US commentator MJ Rosenberg.

We sympathise, having shared with him the experience of being in the wilderness for so long on the question of Israel, watching helplessly as the various establishments – both Jewish and national, in Britain, the States and elsewhere – simply thought their uncritical support for Israel was unchallengeable, destined to last forever.

Well the times they are a-changin’.

The divestment drive that could shake Israel’s economic foundations

7th July 2026

By Richard Kuper

Israel’s wars need funding and Israeli government bonds make it possible.

They also make Israel vulnerable to pressure and campaigners are increasingly making the case for divesting from them.

It seems that the UK’s largest public sector pension pool quietly sold its holdings of such bonds last year. No reason given, but it is obvious that persistent activist pressure pays off in changing the climate in which investors have to make their decisions.

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