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Is Israel destroying itself?

By Leah Levane

Gaza: It’s not really a conflict but a colonial occupation of Palestinian land. The real issue is Israel’s military occupation. It’s the most prolonged and brutal military occupation of modern times. That’s the real background; the October 7 Hamas attack is an expression of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation. People don’t know the history of this conflict between Israel and Hamas. The past is crucial for understanding how we got here. It’s my job as a historian to put Hamas’s behavior in its proper historical context.

Using Israel’s tactics in Minnesota

By Leah Levane

US immigration officers and Israel have collaborated for decades and this has “included trips ferrying high-level U.S. law enforcement officials around Israel, joint training for immigration officers, and technology transfers that have put sophisticated surveillance capabilities in the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The result has been an increasing mind meld between security agencies in Israel and the United States.”

ICE out of Minnesota: this is what it takes and it matters

By Leah Levane

This is how you do the tough, vital work. The people of Minneapolis are inspiring people throughout the world who believe in equality, decent treatment and more.  This article makes comparisons with the Arab Spring, leaderless and growing.  But like the huge increase in solidarity for Palestine, it built on what had gone before, on planning and training that some had done who can now pass this on to the newer activists.

US/Israel’s dystopian plans for controlling Gaza

By Leah Levane

Israel’s plan for Gaza icludes a “new community” for 25,000 Palestinians.  Israel would “contain and control its residents through biometric surveillance, checkpoints, monitoring of purchases, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.”

I will never lose hope even after decades in Israeli jails

By Leah Levane

Nael Barghouti-, now 68, has spent more than four decades incarcerated by Israel, 34 years consecutively.  He was released in a Palestinian prisoner and Israeli hostage swap in January 2025 but had to agree to liv e in exile and is now in Egypt.  Somehow he remains optimistic about a future where Palestinians can live as most other people do, with freedom, able to move around when they want to. 

Impunity will end: Francesca Albanese keeps hopeful

By Leah Levane

The UN Special Rapporteur points to the way out of the current crisis facing international law, while responding to criticism over her stance on October 7.  In this interview with +972 Magazine after her visit to London, she discusses the current crisis of international law, why October 7 and the Gaza genocide must be a point of no return, and why Israel’s impunity will not last forever. 

Yes Pasaran

By Richard Kuper

Joseph Finlay has a simple argument in the article below: Jewish communal leaders in Britain are letting fascism off the hook.

To make his case he gives three brief accounts of fascism in the world today and looks at communal organisations’ reactions to them.

” What unites the failure of such bodies to condemn these various forms of contemporary fascism is that in each case their sole priority is Israel advocacy; they only campaign for causes that will further that goal.”

Holocaust Memorial Day: Never Again for Anyone

By Leah Levane

“As Jewish socialists today, we take particular inspiration from the Bundist Marek Edelman, Second in Command of the Uprising. A socialist, an anti-Zionist, an internationalist and anti-nationalist all his life, he said of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: “We fought for dignity and freedom not for territory or a national identity.”

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