By Leah Levane
Gaza: a survivor’s moving and powerful story of what this has meant not least how many people to whom she was close have been killed. This should be compulsory reading for every apologist, every member of our complicit governments.
By Leah Levane
The Shoah’s historical singularity is beyond dispute. But if that singularity removes it from all human context, it loses its ethical force and serves only as a shield against reality
The assumption of America’s largest Jewish organisations has always been that the overwhelming majority of US Jews are Zionist.
A recent survey calls that into question with a vengeance. It found that only 37% of American Jews identify with the term “Zionist” (while at the same time, 88% believe that “Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state”).
Arno Rosenfeld asks how we should make sense of this.
Aggravated burglary charges against 18 Palestine Action activists dropped Prosecutors drop charges over break-in at Israeli defence firm site after jury cleared six other defendants of offence Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Guardian, 18 Feb 2026 Prosecutors have dropped aggravated burglary charges against 18 defendants accused of a Palestine Action break-in at an Israeli defence … Continued
By Mike Cushman
Authorising prosecutions is the responsibility of the Attorney General. The current AG is Richard Hermer who has said: “I have dear family members currently serving in the IDF.” And Hermer is not alone, his predecessor Suella Braveman also reported: having: “close family members who serve in the IDF.
Harmer reluctance to prosecute IDF soldiers is matched only by his enthusiasm to sign off terrorism charges against people peacefully
By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction Global Jews for Palestine, of which Jewish Voice for Liberation is part have issued this statement on Phase 2 of the so called ceasefire. Since the start of Phase One on October 10th 2025, “Israel has breached the ceasefire agreement at least 1,250 times. During the same period, Israel banned 37 aid organizations … Continued
Israel has a vision of a Middle East free of weapons, whether they are slingshots or nuclear bombs – apart from those of the state of Israel…
A demand for total disarmament of others as a prerequisite for any diplomatic solution is not a call for peace but a declaration of perpetual readiness for war.
Palestinian academic Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon.
He describes himself as coming from a position of what Fred Halliday called “‘complex solidarity”.
It does not make for easy or comfortable reading, affirming as it does that Palestinian politics faces an existential crisis, echoing the words of Hani Al-Masri that the Palestinian “national project” has reached a “comprehensive structural impasse—indeed, a state of actual collapse.”
By Leah Levane
Keir Starmer is in a hole that is too deep to climb out of. The prime minister’s persistent unpopularity is best understood as the result of abundance: there is simply, in Starmer, something for everyone to deplore.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign unanimously agreed a motion submitted by JVL at its Annual General Meeting on February 14th to prioritise campaigning for the release of Marwan Barghouti, along with thousands of other unjustly incarcerated Palestinians held in Israel’s jails.