By Leah Levane
This is a sobering account of the diminishing impact of “protective presence” and the determination of so many to continue to show solidarity. As recently as summer of 2024, the presence of international and Israeli peace and solidarity activists had some influence on curbing the worst of the behaviour of settlers and soldiers.
Al Jazeera explores how Israel is looking for new ways to justify its genocide for the benefit of traditional allies across US society.
By Leah Levane
Israel has refused to release Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader, incarcerated with multiple life sentences plus 30 years in 2004. His political rivals, Hamas always place him at or close to the top of their lists of prisoners to release in exchanges
In the first of two illuminating investigations, Al Jazeera looks into how Israel is pouring resources into restoring flagging support among young right-wing and Evangelical US voters. Videos circulating on social media revealing the mass killing and devastation in Gaza have been generating sympathy for the Palestinians. NWI
By Mike Cushman
The Saharawi people of Western Sahara have lived under illegal Moroccan occupation for 50 years (just like the Palestinians) – and now the UK is backing Morocco’s plan to cement its control of Western Sahara.
By Leah Levane
The level of complicity in the Gaza genocide is extraordinary and outlined in some detail in Francesca Albanese’s latest report to the UN Human Rights Council. We have posted before about the UK’s complicity, not least the barely explained flights over Gaza from the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus. The report covers the West Bank as well as the Gaza genocide.
By Leah Levane
For some time Israel has been supporting four gangs in Gaza, allowing them to steal aid; has provided them with guns and vehicles, presumably to be part of a proxy front against Hamas. These gangs often include criminals and have all now been moved behind the yellow line that cuts Gaza in two as part of the ceasefire deal.
By Leah Levane
In this chilling and important article, Yuval Abraham outlines the argument used inside Israel to counter allegations of genocide. The aim, they claim is a military one, to deal with Hamas (operatives), not to kill civilians. However, there are many examples of senior people (not only in government) making their genocidal intent crystal clear.
Rabbi Brant Rosen exposes the moral hypocrisy of those who charge critics of Israel, such as New York politician Zohran Mamdani, with encouraging and exacerbating hostility toward Judaism and Jews.
By Leah Levane
Germany’s largest-selling tabloid, Bild, exploited an Alice in Wonderland (not to say Kafkaesque) legal technicality to successfully defend its smearing of the Palestinian photojournalist, Anas Zayed Fteiha, one of the few journalists still working in Gaza. Fteiha accused Bild’s publisher – the mighty Axel Springer media corporation – of violating his constitutional rights by accusing him of being a Hamas propogandist and ‘staging’ a scene at a food distribution point. This allegation was false, as shown through an investigation conducted by Bild’s main rival, Spiegel.