By Leah Levane
Palestinians living in East Jerusalem are always under threat. The latest is for the Batn Al-Hawa district of Silwan, just outside the Old City. This article highlights the likely eviction of 700 people even though they have lived in their homes for decades. Israeli law, as explained below, allows Jewish claims but not Palestinian ones. …
By Leah Levane
Palestine Action’s likely proscription under draconian terrorism legislation is important on many levels, not only for the right to protest and to take direct action but potentially for the right to free speech for us all.
By Leah Levane
A question rarely asked even as the expulsion of people from Masafer Yatta becomes imminent – why does the IDF need to do its training in the West Bank? When the area was originally designated a Firing Zone (918), the argument was that the land was needed for training as it was similar to that …
By Leah Levane
This is a chilling article with IDF soldiers clearly saying things such as: “It’s a killing field,” one soldier said. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine …
Daniel Finn writing in Tribune condemns “a disgraceful authoritarian measure from a Labour government that fears having its own complicity with crimes against humanity exposed in the courts.”
By Leah Levane
Zohran Mamdani will be the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York; the city with the largest concentration of Jews outside of Israel – and guess what, tens of thousands of Jews voted for him and others, especially in the corners of the Jewish Establishment are furious and something else – this is not …
By Leah Levane
Two messages: one from Mohammad Maragha, from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, this heart wrenching short message a few days ago from one of the music teachers in their Gazan team, who had until very recently still been gathering little groups of children and musicking with them in the rubble. No more. “We just want to die now, without this terrible hunger.” and from Erella of the Villages Group, whose words have reappeared several times in this series as she documents the ongoing horrendous settler violence that she witnesses first hand again and again, a howl of anguish.
Jonathan Cook delves into the encounter between veteran journalist Peter Oborne and BBC Director of News Content Richard Burgess at the launch of a damning report on the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Defenders of civil liberties and the right to protest are rallying in opposition to the UK government’s plan to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror legislation.
Israel’s unprovoked, illegal attack on Iran and the follow-up action from the US has generated a huge amount of analysis and comment from all points on the political spectrum.
From the left, we see considerable agreement on many aspects of the crisis the world now faces.
In this post we draw these out before linking to a range of helpful articles