By Leah Levane
Israel’s cruel, despicable, illegal proposal to build a “Humanitarian” City on the ruins of Rafah should have unleashed not only condemnation but also action by the rest of the world’s leaders. Note that even former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, from the same Likud Party as Netanyahu, considers that this would be a concentration camp …
By Leah Levane
Graham Bash, a member of JVL’s Executive was arrested on Saturday as part of a group opposing the criminalisation of Palestine Action. He was one of c 80 people arrested in London, Manchester and Cardiff that day. Civil rights veterans joined Derry rally after Palestine Action ban and no arrests were made there. The proscription …
The 2025 Durham Miners’ Gala featured a large Palestine solidarity contingent. Ambassador Husam Zumlot addressed the Big Meeting on Saturday and Durham PSC hosted a packed eve-of-gala meeting where JVL’s Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi spoke of Israel’s unconscionable crimes.
By Leah Levane
Even experts in genocide find what is happening to Gaza too unbearable to keep looking at but we all know that this is what people in Gaza are living through minute by minute and have been doing for almost all of the past 21 months. But Israel has the solution – along with Donald Trump, …
By Leah Levane
The “Labour” government set up a working group to look into Islamophobia; so far so good. However, they barred the group from consulting with the Muslim Council of Britain, the largest Muslim Umbrella Group or the Centre For Media Monitoring but the group was free to consult with people who had been accused of Islamophobia …
By Leah Levane
In the compelling article, the journalist interviews James Elder, UNICEF’s global spokesperson who has recently returned from Gaza. I could pull into this introduction something that made me think “imagine I was in that situation” from almost every paragraph, but this is perhaps the most harrowing as we think of the future. “There’s nowhere else in …
By Leah Levane
3 short videos by the Guardian “Along the Green Line” (not recognised by most Israelis.) Looking respectively at Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza and interviewing Palestinians and Israelis. Some of this is shocking and gives little to provide cause for hope but perhaps in this, the bloodiest phase, is the time when considering the future is more essential than ever.3
In increasingly difficult circumstances B’Tselem, Israel’s premier human rights organisation, continues its valuable work as its Israeli and Palestinian researchers chronicle the violations of human rights they encounter every day.
Its latest newsletter (7th July) pulls together some recent reports and research, combining background information with stories that bring home the daily humiliations, violence and death so casually meted out to those under occupation.
A lead Haaretz editorial, seething with contempt for the criminal Israeli government. It shows how historial comparison and the memory of the Holocaust, meant to be cautionary, has been gutted in the thinking of Israel’s leaders today. So says the editorial, a concentration camp, so long as it isn’t a waystation on the way to …
By Leah Levane
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 has recently submitted a new report to the 59th session of the Human Rights Council, from 16 June to 11 July. It is called “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” and it is uncompromising. …