Guests have been invited to celebrate the good news: The results of their friend Lina’s medical test were negative. The cancer has not returned. Between glasses of red wine and talk of late-season mulukhiyah and methods of preparing it, the host told her guests the examination was pushed forward and why: Another person who had … Continued
The outline map above shows the state of Palestine in its internationally recognised borders.
The West Bank reality is portrayed in this map below, recently posted on Facebook by Jewish Voice for Peace. The Gaza reality is depicted in a futher map.
October’s horrendous attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester is just the latest reminder that antisemitism is alive and kicking in the UK. As British Jews, however, we worry about the disproportionate attention given to antisemitism claims, which comprise about 2 per cent of all police-reported hate crimes nationally. We are also disturbed by efforts … Continued
JVL Introduction Ludi Simpson, JVL member and environmental activist was arrested with two others in September 2022 for throwing soup at the glass and frames of two Van Gogh paintings to publicise climate breakdown in the face of insufficient action by the UK government to keep fossil fuels grounded. His trial will take place at … Continued
Peter Oborne’s long-awaited study of British complicity in the destruction of Gaza is a searing indictment of the politicians who allowed it to happen and the media who went cravenly along with the lies and distortions that made it possible.
Andrew Hornung reviews it here for JVL.
On June 4th, The Times of Israel reported that in 2024, annual Israeli arms exports had reached an all-time high of $14.8 billion, with Europe buying 54% of the weapons. The article noted that Israeli officials had previously been concerned that Western European allies may cancel weapons deals or sanction Israeli manufacturers over the country’s … Continued
The JCB boycott campaign is an ongoing effort led by human rights and Palestine solidarity groups, Amnesty International, and Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR), to pressure the British company JCB to stop the sale of its machinery to Israel.
In its November 2025 issue, Prospect Magazine published Imaan Irfan’s important investigation into the firm JCB under the title “The right’s love affair with JCB”…
They say football and politics should not mix — as though the pitch were sacred ground, untouched by the dust and din of the real world. But that is a comforting myth, a lullaby sung by those who have never felt politics at their doorstep. Football has always been political. It breathes through the songs … Continued
A classified U.S. government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli human rights abuses in Gaza but, the Washington Post reports, sanctions which should result are unlikely to be applied.
By Leah Levane
It seems that a ceasefire is still a ceasefire even when Israel drops bombs to “attack Hamas” but it is violated when Hamas kill an Israeli soldier. This is the Alice in Wonderland world we are living in; the topsy turvy, Kafkaeqsque nightmare that Palestinians are living through. For Trump this is OK and the ceasefire is still holding and we have not begun to get to Phase 2.