By Leah Levane
Thursday May 29th marks the 600th day of this particular horror. This is the statement prepared by Global Jews for Palestine (GJP) to mark the day. JVL is a member of GJP. The world is marching for Palestine, action from our politicians is long overdue!
By Leah Levane
The language and tone used by mainstream Politicians, media and other institutions has changed significantly in relation to Israel’s pummelling of Gaza. It is harsher and far more direct, indeed since Israel broke the ceasefire agreement in March, it has been rare to find politicians who agree with Netanyahu that it is the fault of … Continued
By Leah Levane
800 UK lawyers, including, for example, 70 KCs, have written to the Prime Minister outlining action that needs to be taken, especially sanctions. This letter omits the call for an arms embar3go since the outcome of a legal case on this is awaited but while welcoming the statement by Starmer working with the Canadian and French …
By Leah Levane
As this article shows, there is so much that is wrong with the annual, “state funded” march to “celebrate” the capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. On 26th May, the march went ahead with the usual violence, the presence of government ministers, the horrendous chants “Without a Nakba, there is no victory”, “Death to Arabs” and “Jerusalem 1967, Gaza 2025″are not new. The article notes that, if anything, policing was lighter than usual.
By Leah Levane
The genocide of the Jews was 80 years before the current genocide of the Palestinians. Here UK based Palestinian journalist, Yara Eid and 87 year old survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, Stephen Kapos meet. Below the short article is a 2 hour video of their conversation at a recent meeting held at London University’s School of …
By Leah Levane
This is the transcript of the harrowing report that Fergal Keane made for the BBC. There is no hiding the reality. People in Gaza are being starved by Israel. Today (May 26th 25) we learn that the the director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), resigned just as the group was about to begin the US …
By Leah Levane
Starmer and others in the UK and EU have changed their tone; their language is more direct and their tone is harsher and yet….why is the UK (and many other countries) still helping to arm Israel when what they are doing is now deemed “intolerable”? There is little to add here to this article by …
By Leah Levane
Being a woman in Gaza: how to manage menstruation and more. And life: Mariam Khateeb writes: “I return again and again to the image of my mother during the war. Back curved on a pot, hands trembling, eyes scratching the ceiling at every noise… Her body carried the architecture of war and motherhood at the same time. Now I realize how political her fatigue was – how her work, like that of so many Palestinian women, defied the logic of annihilation.”
By Leah Levane
While increasing numbers of Israelis are beginning to protest against the slaughter in Gaza, they remain nevertheless a minority. The large majority continue either to turn their eyes away from the images of horror that are so distressing the rest of the world, or applaud them in an utterly unashamed abdication of any remnants of …
By Leah Levane
When the BBC’s correspondent, Jeremy Bowen is considered “brave” for using the word genocide something is seriously amiss. There are still no plans to broadcast the documentary”Medics Under Fire” that the BBC had commissioned on the attacks on Gazan hospitals or to put back the documentary “How to survive a warzone” on iplayer that it …