By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction This moving piece of writing by Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, a 28-year-old doctor in northern Gaza, born and raised in Jabaliya, is an important read. As we will keep trying to convey, in the words of the people of Gaza “We Are Not Numbers”. This is the human experience of trying to survive in … Continued
By Leah Levane
The Centre for Media Monitoring has carried out another forensic analysis of the BBC coverage on Gaza-Israel. They looked at “3,873 BBC articles and 32,092 broadcast segments from 7 October 2023 to 6 October 2024, alongside a comparative analysis of 7,748 articles on the war in Ukraine. During the 12-month analysis period, 42,010 Palestinians and …
By Leah Levane
Our attention is diverted to Israel’s attack on Iran and Iran’s retaliation but people are still being killed in Gaza and as Israel attacked Iran it put the West Bank on lockdown, swinging shut those big yellow gates to block off towns, villages and hamlets, making movement even more difficult than usual for Palestinians – …
By Leah Levane
Donald Trump’s decision to greenlight Israel’s attacks on Iran could prove more calamitous than George W Bush waging war on Iraq.
By Leah Levane
Written by an Iranian born Israeli citizen, this heartfelt article highlights the dangers of an illusion under which most Israelis have been living; the illusion that the military will always triumph and protect the Israelis, regardless of the premise on which they are fighting. As Ms Noy says: “… for nearly 80 years, these so-called …
By Leah Levane
Ethnic cleansing is well underway in Gaza; ongoing killing by Israel, the 4 dystopian feeding points under Israel’s control where there were 400 (!) before. This is not accidental but is in the design: Netanyahu has told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset that: “We’re destroying more and more homes — they …
By Leah Levane
Israel’s attack on Iran – and also Iran’s retaliation – has pushed Gaza off the agenda for now. The killings continue while Israel blocked the internet for many hours. Israel has also imposed a complete lock down on the West Bank, those big yellow gates firmly shut on every road and track dramatically limiting movement …
By Leah Levane
Two more civil society attempts to reach the Rafah crossing have been blocked, aggressively so by Egypt. After Israel attacked the Freedom Flotilla we must ask why is Egypt backing this isolation of Gaza? Is it so the people there do not know that the people of the world are in action to stop the …
The writer digs deeply into many examples on how the term “trauma” is frequently applied by the BBC to Israelis and rarely to Palestinians. We hear again and again that Israelis were traumatised by the events of that day and, of course, are assumed to carry intergenerational trauma from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. And yet, nearly 80 years of ongoing Nakba, displacement, restriction, incarceration, torture, demolitions and then bombardment is rarely named, let alone the associated intergenerational trauma.
By Leah Levane
Israel is deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war. Israel’s control of access means control over Palestinians’ survival added to which they are being forced to risk injury and even death trying to get a share of the extremely limited amount of food available. There is an alternative that addresses Israel’s security concerns but which Israel is ignoring.