JVL Introduction The clatter of condemnations of Israel’s genocide by mass starvation in Gaza is now deafening. But the question remains: what, precisely, should be done? A number of recent reports, articles and open letters have included a range of possible sanctions and we reproduce three of them of them below: from 58 former EU … Continued
This article was posted in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz but not, it seems, in the English one. Is the comparison with the Holocaust too threatening to lay before an international audience? In any event, Orit Kamir – an Israeli professor of law who drafted Israel’s law against sexual harassment and its law prohibiting bullying …
By Leah Levane
Peter Beinart gives a heartfelt message to Rabbis as they start to think about what to say on the High Days and Holy Days that are coming soon. He refers to experience in South Africa where one Liberal Rabbi who opposed the apartheid regime to his congregation was forced to leave. Are today’s Rabbis frightened …
In a powerful statement, Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, ask the question that has puzzled us all: why on earth has the world not stopped the genocide. By placing it in a global context, they suggest a plausible answer. Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, since the austerity imposed thereafter, since the Arab spring, since …
By Leah Levane
We on the left need to claim (reclaim?) free speech as our issue. We must not cede it to the right wing who make a big deal of it until, as this article from Australia, points out it comes to free speech on Israel. Are we any better on the left? Do we also want …
Freelance journalist David Keys welcomes Starmer’s statement about the recognition of Palestine conditional on Israel meeting certain wide-ranging conditions about ending the war on Gaza. Leaving aside some strong reservations about conditional recognition (see below), we are very happy to circulate this powerful compilation of ten arguments as to why “Israel’s ongoing behaviour is …
Michael Sfard is probably Israel’s premier human-rights lawyer, tireless in his support of those challenging the Israeli government’s oppressive regime or falling foul of its arbitrary , oppressive and often illegal interventions. He set up the Michael Sfard Law Office in 2004 which describes its work as follows: [We have] represented human rights, peace, protest, …
Aharon Dardik, a young Israeli born into an orthodox, Zionist American family, describes his evolution to chaining himself to a gate to protest Columbia university’s complicity in the detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
Hats off to UK Declassified for a fascinating piece of investigative journalism into the training of Israeli army officers in Britain. The journalistic team pull together much that is known with a lot of detailed information revealed here for the first time. Here is Rory Stewart in May, on what is known: “David Lammy, our …
If further proof were needed… A carefully produced, legally informed, report from Physicians for Human Rights Israel has no hesitation in accusing Israel of genocide. As well as presenting details of the health crisis in Gaza – destruction, illness, starvation – it argues that the assault is a deliberate, cumulative dismantling of Gaza’s health system, …