The legal basis for the EU’s trade relations with Israel is the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Article 2 is explicit: Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of …
A hard-hitting analysis by genocide scholar Martin Shaw of how politicians and the media long denied there was a genocide in Gaza. Times are changing but those media which now call out genocide generally do so with a shrug of the shoulders, “as though,” says Shaw, “they are saying, “Yes, it’s a genocide, but what …
A strong statement of protest by Liverpool Trades Council adopted on 17 July. It was then also adopted by the Merseyside Association of TUCs on 19 July.
Tom London reminds us of Arthur Koestler’s anger, frustration and rage as he tried unsuccessfully to draw the Nazi atrocities in Europe to the attention an uninterested public in January 1944.
He speaks for us all when he writes:
A crime is under way in Gaza of unspeakable evil.
The evidence for the crime is conclusive, yet denied by Western governments and most Western media.
The UK Government is supporting and enabling the genocide in Gaza.
I feel a responsibility as a British person, as a Jew and as a human being.
I am a screamer. I don’t know what else to do.
Muhammad Shehada provides an interesting analysis of debates within Hamas about possible ways forward. Battered but unbroken, Hamas is adamantly opposed to Israel’s calls for it to disarm. But as cracks emerge in Israel’s top security establishment with many recognising that total disarmament is neither realistic nor enforceable, so too within Hamas there are those …
Craig Murray gives a devastating account of how the proscription of Palestine Action is playing out. As predicted, the police are already abusing the provisions of the Terrorism Act, contrary to the expressed wishes of those who introduced it and the most recent judicial interpretation of it by Justice Chamberlain. It is being used to …
Global Jewish Manifesto for Collective Liberation is to be launched with a webinar on Thursday July 24, addressed by Hungarian-Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté. Register Now!
Mike Phipps reviews Nicola Kelly’s Anywhere But Here: How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All. In the words of Grace Blakely, author of Vulture Capitalism: “A stunning expose of the UK’s broken asylum system. Kelly is an incredible storyteller who reveals the astonishing injustices experienced by the human beings fleeting conflict and hardship in …
Keir Starmer suspends Diane Abbott for a second time for remarks about different types of racism, sparking outrage and some incredulity on the left, and a thoughtful opinion piece in the Guardian.
Ha’aretz has published a series of satellite images showing with horrifying clarity the apocalyptic scale of destruction Gaza has suffered since October 2023.