Category Archives: News

Jewish Voice for Labour Introduction Israel’s treatment of its own citizens and foreign nationals who stand in solidarity with Palestinians can be vicious.  Sadly too many other countries, not least the UK, USA and Germany are also clamping down on … Continue reading →

This introduction is taken from a Jewish Voice for Labour report, and the whole Commons debate was most timely, coming in the week of the BPP conference (in London, on 8 May), which dealt vociferously with this very topic Tuesday’s … Continue reading →

On 29 April, 2025, at the first official visit of Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa to the United Kingdom, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed setting out a package of support, including more than £100m directed to humanitarian relief, support for Palestinian … Continue reading →

By Mandy Turner 21 April 2025 In many Western societies there is a very visible disjuncture in political attitudes between entrenched elite support for Israel and growing public support for Palestinian rights, which is highlighting a severe democratic deficit. This … Continue reading →

By Hamdan Ballal 25 April 2025 From The New York Times On 2 March, I won an Academy Award for best documentary for a film I co-directed, No Other Land. It’s hard to put into words how that moment felt. … Continue reading →

By Omer Bartov The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met. From The New York Review of Books, 27 March, 2025 … Continue reading →

Sami abu Salem is a Gaza journalist who, like most Gazan Palestinians, has been pursued with his extended family up and down the Strip by Israel’s war machine since October, 2023. Sami has reported regularly to broadcaster and film-maker Mike … Continue reading →

The story isn’t Hamas, religion or terrorism. Rashid Khalidi, eminent historian and a pre-eminent Palestinian intellectual of our time, is convinced that the Israelis simply do not understand the conflict – living in a ‘bubble of false consciousness’. Here he talks … Continue reading →

On 6 April this year (2024), amid steadily increasing Israeli aggression and oppression in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Israeli security agents seized at gunpoint a 23-year-old Palestinian woman, Layan Nasir, taking her from her home in … Continue reading →

By Daniel Levy US policies strengthen Benjamin Netanyahu – whose political preference in the short term is an open-ended war, not a deal. Kamala Harris should not continue this (This article appeared in The Guardian on 27 Aug 2024) The Biden … Continue reading →

By Richard Sewell 2 August 2024 People must not avert their eyes from the conflict in the Holy Land, writes Richard Sewell in a personal reflection from Jerusalem In 1955, the Anglican priest and monk (and later bishop) Trevor Huddleston was recalled … Continue reading →

A historian of the Middle East recalls the passionate Zionists who opposed such an entity as a distraction from the goal of ‘true Zionism’, which was to create a land where Arabs and Jews would flourish together. By JOHN MCHUGO … Continue reading →

Menachem Klein explores how Israel’s rule over the Palestinians has created a new form of the religion Originally published in Logos. A fundamental question: “Are we, Israelis, still Jews?”, asked the philosopher Ernest Simon in 1953.[1] What looks like a … Continue reading →

The June-July 2024 report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, primarily on Gaza and Southern Israel but also including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, finds that on 7 Oct last year, … Continue reading →

Top Israeli Government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the International Criminal Court and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, reveals a joint investigation by +972, Local Call and The Guardian … Continue reading →

Special guest Queen Rania of Jordan discusses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the Israel-Hamas war in this exclusive one-on-one with The ReidOut on MSNBC. “What’s happening in Gaza today… is a war crime,” Queen Rania tells Joy Reid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxe9JFsfzc&ab_channel=MSNBC

‘It is hard to describe it as anything but ethnic cleansing’ By Donald Macintyre If you wanted someone to illustrate the Palestinian concept of sumud you could have done a lot worse than Halima Jaber Nawaja sitting  in front of her house … Continue reading →

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, the Israeli magazine +972 and Hebrew-language news site Local Call reveal. … Continue reading →

A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel’s far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal By Menachem Klein 9 April, 2024 For most Israelis, the war has become routine. They … Continue reading →