By Leah Levane
The USA has always wanted a compliant Middle East, not least for access to oil. Iran has failed to be compliant since the downfall of the Shah – who was, of course, put in place against the democratically elected leader who had the temerity to nationalise Iran’s oil much to the fury of British Petroleum, …
A right-wing newspaper publishes an opinion piece by a leftie political commentator celebrating both a Communist singer and an Irish republican charged under British terrorism laws. Is Establishment consensus crumbling?
By Leah Levane
Do join the Jewish Bloc if you can, the attacks on Iran and their retaliation has pushed the killing in Gaza off the news but it is still going on. Meeting point is Russell Square, corner of Montagu Street and we are gathering at 11.45. Bring your banners and placards.
A Guardian editorial says it’s not just Gaza’s infrastructure that is collapsing, “It is the principle that even war has rules.”
By Leah Levane
We are delighted to share this new, 26 minute documentary by Helena Aksentijevic with you. ‘Gaza it Rhymes With Me” – Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against the Genocide’ provides moving and valuable information through interviews with some of the members of the group which attends every march and other events supporting Palestine in London
In Gaza, Israel, abetted by the US, has created a “death world” for which the term “war crime” is totally inadequate, writes Suzy Hansen in New York Magazine.
By Leah Levane
Holocaust survivors addressed the Vienna Jewish Anti-Zionism Congress. Over 400 people attended the Congress held in June 2025. This first Congress of its kind was held in the shadow of Israel’s ongoing murders in Gaza and just as Netanyahu launched missiles at Iran in an attempt to start a nuclear war to consume us all
Most at the Congress were from Europe but there were people from all continents. Over three days they heard from experts in the histories of Palestine, Israel, Zionism and antisemitism and from activists opposing apartheid and genocide and challenging their government’s complicity in crimes against international humanitarian law.
By Leah Levane
The Oxford Union has always prided itself on open and even controversial debates but it seems the Union’s Trustees are not happy with a debate held last year where Palestinian author and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine spoke. They do not want the video of the whole event published. The students are standing firm. The video …
A dispassionate analysis of the likely physical and mental health and societal impacts of Israel’s war on Gaza demonstrates the ghastly reality of genocide.
In this horrifying account, freelance journalist, David Keys, provides what is, arguably, the most comprehensive account ever published of the war’s likely long-term health and other consequences.
By Leah Levane
While the bombs fall on Iran and Israel, as the internet was again shut down for Gaza, the murder of Palestinians there continues. This is a harrowing account of the latest round of attacks on starving people. We have published many pieces about starvation, as a weapon of war, as something so far from Jewish …