After a brief report on the murder of at least 30 Palestinians near Rafah in southern Gaza as they were waiting for aid, Democracy Now! asks Daniel Levy. a former Israeli peace negotiator, for his assessment of the current situation. It is honest and it is bleak: “[M]uch of the Israeli official political opposition is …
Arielle Angel, editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents reports on the important Jewish Voice for Peace national meeting held in Baltimore in May that drew together over 2,000 people from 45 states. The movement faces major external threats with JVP high on the list of targets in the broad effort to criminalise pro-Palestinian activism. At the same …
By Leah Levane
JVL Introduction We are grateful to Teresa Thornhill for drawing attention to the 2030 Roadmap for UK Israel relations. Signed in 2023 under a Tory government, concerns were raised about at the time as you can see in this statement by the Palestine Mission Palestinian Mission and in this letter from Jews for Justice for Palestinians. These … Continued
“Sportwashing” – tyrannical states using sporting events to burnish shameful human rights records – is a practice at least as old as fascism. This article reviews the possible significance of the current campaign to exclude Israel from FIFA and UEFA.
By Leah Levane
Lady Macbeth was filled with remorse for her role in the murder of one person, even though she did not kill him herself. In Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1. she utters these words as she is sleepwalking: “Here’s the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” …
By Leah Levane
This excoriating piece expressed the movement’s fury with the Labour government that has, finally, started to make some of the right noises and yet continues to arm Israel, to send RAF surveillance flights over Gaza from Akrotiri, Cyprus and, despite ostensibly suspending talks on trade negotiations, Labour Lord Austin was in Israel. The UK government …
By Leah Levane
In this article Nina Lakhani, of the Guardian, reports on a study by Frederick Otu-Larbi, of Lancaster Environment Centre and the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Ghana and Ben Neimark, of Queen Mary University of London. They documented the direct and indirect carbon emissions resulting from the conflicts in Palestine and surrounding countries in the …
By JVL
This is a clear and angry piece about Israel’s carnage in Gaza; its destruction of people and places such that even one month after the pulverisation that followed the October 7th attack on Israel, Gaza looked different as googlemaps show. There is no equivocation here, Israel is doing this while not allowing journalists in. Furthermore …
By Mike Cushman
Schuyler Mitchell details how the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther is a plot to delegitimise and proscribe all socialist and progressive politics in America under the guise of a campaign against alleged antisemitism. A plot drawing on the heritage of Joe McCarthy; not necessarily the heritage they are trying to invoke in the foundation’s …
By Leah Levane
Councillors in Dorset from several political parties have called for the local Arms company to stop supplying components to drones used by Israel. They have issued an Open letter calling for signatures, which you can access here and at the end of the article. We know that activists across the country are picketing their local arms …