By Leah Levane
The bold action by member of the cast unfurling a Palestinian flag while taking their bow at the Royal Opera House has inspired 182 members of the company, including dancers, singers, musicians, and staff across artistic, creative, technical and administrative departments to push for action. The Royal Opera has now cancelled its planned performances at …
By Leah Levane
John Rees writes a cautious welcome to the New Party of the Left and emphasises the importance of understanding what happened, eg to Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain and Die Linke in Germany. He stresses that the pull of Labourism and of a push to focus on elections are to be resisted. Like James …
By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction We published one of many reports on the murder of peace activist, husband and father of three small boys, Awdah Hathaleen from Umm El Khair by a settler here. and this article included his last contribution via Zoom where he was reaching out to activists, including many Jewish activists, the night before his … Continued
We are reposting a report on the IHRA Working Definition and the shenanigans behind its adoption and propagation. First published in April 2021, this powerful report by Jamie Stern-Weiner has lost none of its relevance and perceptiveness, both about the manoeuvrings around the adoption of the definition, and its potential and actual use to undermine …
There are voices of resistance in Israel who keep on going in the face of a genocidal mood in the wider society. For the past 22 years members of the Israeli organisation Zochrot (Remembrance) have been campaigning to remember and keep alive the history of the nakba of 1948 as well as the ongoing nakba. …
By Leah Levane
Here Avrum Burg expresses some of our frustration that the Israeli government and its unwavering and uncritical supporters continue to allege antisemitism as the motivation for criticising what Israel is doing in Gaza. It no longer works: “Opposing Israel’s actions today is a moral obligation,” says Burg, “And it is not antisemitism. It is love …
By Leah Levane
We post this as a companion piece to our post yesterday, A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a fascinating account of how the meaning of Holocaust memory has changed over time. It was in the period from 1985 to 2005 …
By Leah Levane
This article welcomes the announcement of what is currently being called “Your Party”. This is the first in a series planned by the online magazine Sidecar, which is part of the New Left Review. The mainstream is going into a tailspin and demanding answers, for example about leadership, wanting easy, straight answers. I prefer to …
By Leah Levane
This article by the Deputy Director of UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign highlights the need for sanctions to stop the genocide. Starmer’s half decision to recognise Palestine is something he has been pressured into by MPs in his own Party but much more by the mood in the country and that the support for Palestinians is …
By Leah Levane
This new report from the Runnymede Trust highlights the way in which language used by politicians and the media about race and immigration has helped shape “the increase in reactionary politics and backlash against antiracism which has emboldened the far right in this country”. The report said parliamentarians “are more likely to use humanising terms …