By Leah Levane
Labour under Starmer has bought into – and fed – the frency about immigration. Here Nesrine Malik writes in excoriating terms about this and notes, eg. that “In the past week alone, Starmer has posted 14 times on X; 10 of those posts were about immigration, particularly irregular arrivals and those arriving on small boats.” …
By Leah Levane
Craig Murray, who was formerly a British diplomat, has checked out the reports on Palestine Action from the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and finds no evidence there to back up the Home Secretary’s allegations about Palestine Action. He reminds us that the UN (and, we can note others such as Amnesty International) has made clear …
The letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper from leading British Jews, sent on 5 August, remains unanswered. As the situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate the British government wrings its hands and does nothing So the letter has been sent again, with additional signatories including Miriam Margolyes. We have appended a short video of …
By Leah Levane
This journalist spent four years reporting on Palestine; she has now written a novel but perhaps the key question she asks is: “why have those of us whose job it was to report the atrocities in Palestine been so spectacularly unable to stop them?” Greenwood reported extensively on several “wars” in Gaza as well as …
Jewish academics in Scotland speak out against the complicity of Scottish universities in the genocide in Gaza. We repost a report in the Scottish daily, The National, which quotes extensively from their letter Arthur Balfour, Foreign Secretary at the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, was also Chancellor of Edinburgh University for four decades, …
By Leah Levane
Former Army Colonel Chris Rombert is descended from Austrian Jews who had to flee the Anschluss. He felt obliged to protest on Saturday and was one of the c 522 who were arrested. He is a JVL solidarity member. Here he is interviewed for Skwawkbox and among much else of interest he said: “I do …
By Leah Levane
As the news gets worse every day, pro-Palestinian supporters in the UK despair of any country taking decisive actions to curb Israel in its genocidal mission and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. However, it is countries in the global south who have taken the lead, first with referring Israel to the ICJ and the ICC and …
By Leah Levane
Five journalists working for Al Jazeera were killed by Israel close to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City – the City that Israel plans to take full control of in order to “save the people of Gaza from Hamas” (as Netanyahu said yesterday). Anas al-Sharif was a particularly well known journalist, aged only 28, was …
By Leah Levane
This Video was compiled by The Guardian and rather highlights the futility of the action and the waste of police resources. This article in The Times, “Quelling Palestine protest was an ‘unrealistic’ task, shows that the Met police (and those brought in from as far as Wale) might rather have been doing other things. The …
By Leah Levane
Jeremy Till is one of more than 500 who were arrested on Saturday 9th August for peacefully, indeed silently, protesting the genocide in Gaza and the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. There is widespread consensus that this was at the very least a poor use of scant police resources but the …