Haaretz writes: “Israel’s policy of withholding all the customs and other fees it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority has created a kind of chain reaction that harms every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank. The worst damage has been to the public health system…”
It is an illegal act, genocidal in its effects, and Israeli officials should answer for it in The Hague.
I’d never heard of Sam Harris until now but it turns out he is quite illustrious, the author of five New York Times best sellers, an expert on meditation with a doctorate in neuroscience.
He’s also currently making waves in the States with a post entitled “Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel”.
Peter Beinart is undeterred. He provides an entertaining and insightful critique of some of the underlying dogma and false assumptions as well as numerous counter-examples to skewer Harris’s argument.
Palestinians were forced from the homes and, despite United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194, not allowed to return.
Of course it was not a single event but an ongoing reality as Israel has relentlessly pursued its drive for as much territory as possible with as few Palestinians as possible.
That’s what happened in 1967 when Israel gleeful seized the opportunity of war to push a further 300,000 Palestinians from their homes as well as 130,000 Syrians .
By Leah Levane
We have now entered the last year of the worst decade in the history of the occupation. A decade of pogroms and Jewish terror, enjoying political backing, public funding and various degrees of official cooperation by security forces. A decade of rampaging apartheid, official and unmasked, implemented by tens of thousands of Israelis, all of whom are accomplices to a crime against humanity.”
By Leah Levane
Descended from Egyptian Jews, Mike Scialom writes “People like me can’t sit in silence. We know the truth. We are the product of the past and too not talk about it is to be complicit. The creation of the state of Israel created hundreds of thousands of Arab victims, but they also created victims like my father, who barely spoke of what happened to him.”
By Leah Levane
There are grave concerns about the possibility that the four found guilty of criminal damage for their action at Elbit Systems in Bristol will be sentenced as terrorists. Not only would this be terrible for the young people themselves but it would represent a seroius constitutional crisis.
100 public figures express alarm at the prospect of the Filton activists receiving harsher sentences than the jury could have anticipated by categorising their actions as terrorism.
By Leah Levane
Mehdi Hasan argues that the “very real threat from rising authoritarianism in the US and the UK…(from) the opposition to the destruction of Gaza – and now also Iran and Lebanon – cannot be separated from the defence of our democratic freedoms at home. They are part and parcel of the same struggle.”
By Leah Levane
In this thoughtful piece in the wake of the terrible murder of Henry Nowak, Nesrine Malik looks at the real reasons that white, working class people are feeling aggrieved; lack of job security, dramatic changes to work, to communities all within decades of austerity that few politicians see ending. This is a thoughtful piece and offers a way forward, with hard work but as Malik concludes “what other choice is there?”
By Leah Levane
As someone who writes in Haaretz, I’ve often been accused of auto-antisemitism. But when right-wingers attack leftists in the same way the Nazis talked about the Jews, it’s not seen as self-hatred. To our horror, the global wave of antisemitism has not spared Israel