In defence of inalienable rights
The Jewish Socialists’ Group speaks for many Jews in their statement opposing the government’s proscription of Palestine Action.
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No words for Labour’s complicity on Gaza
By Leah Levane
July 4th saw the first anniversary of this Labour government after 14 years of Tory or Coalition led rule. Hugh Lanning of Labour and Palestine writes despairingly of the countless failures of a so called Labour government (led by a Human Rights lawyer) regarding the horrors experienced by the people of Gaza for 21 months! …
Israel’s “dangerous blindness” and an unrecogisable Gaza
By Leah Levane
A rare access into Gaza for Jean-Pierre Filiu, one of the few historians who has written about Gaza. He describes an unrecognisable Gaza and is disorientated not only by being unable to get his physical bearings but also the breakdown of Gazan solidarity as hunger has forced so many people to prioritise their immediate family. …
Remember: legal does not also mean right.
By Leah Levane
How and why has the Labour government proscribed Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act? What has been the experience in universities and why has this government been prepared to go even further than the previous Tory government – of course the Terrorism Act 2000 WAS introduced by a Labour government
My favorite ‘anti-semite’ and the Zionist thought police
“The media panic,” writes Tony Karon veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle in Souoth Africa, “over Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic Party Primary for Mayor of New York reminded me of this piece I wrote 18 years ago, when the same “anti-Semitism” charged was leveled at Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a lifelong beacon of moral clarity. …
Sane voices must prevail
While pro-Israel lobby groups were celebrating their success in setting British democracy back a century with MPs’ approval Yvette Cooper’s draconian plan to brand Palestine Action a terrorist group alongside Russian neo-Nazis and ISIS, sanity appeared in a number of eloquent letters to the Guardian.
How Israel seeks to justify its actions in Gaza
JVL Introduction Tom London, a proud British Jew and what he describes as an “unthinking Zionist” for most of his life, has rightly became exercised by the ongoing destruction in Gaza, so exercised that he decided to grapple with the issues in an extended “Open Letter to those in the UK who are silent on … Continued
BBC impartiality is dead, its own journalists say
Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel explains how she became “horrified at the contradiction between the ideals of our public broadcaster – accuracy, transparency, public trust – and its actions. Editorial caution had become editorial cowardice.”
Wishing death upon a genocidal army is apparently worse than committing genocide
Bob Vylan really has upset the cheerleaders and gatekeepers of our political system.
Ricky of Council Estate Media is on fine form as he skewers “politicians who couldn’t condemn a genocide after 20 months so easily condemn a punk act for wishing death upon the genocidal army”.
There is no internet…
Dr Ezzideen Shehab, born and raised in Jabaliya and still working in the desolation of Gaza, posts a lot on X (formerly Twitter) with the self-description: “Doctor, sometimes a writer. Revealing hidden stories, a voice for the unheard. Witness to humanity’s darkest depths.”
This post explores those “darkest depths”.
This was written three weeks ago.
The slaughter continues, unabated.