1400 Israeli air strikes, over 1000 rockets fired, and Israel says there is much more to come. Over 200 Palestinians have been killed, 77% of them civilians, a quarter of them children. 1500 have been injured, 800 homes destroyed. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu says, “No international pressure will prevent us from striking.“ Israel’s barbaric bombardment […]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel/Palestine’
National demonstration for Gaza: assemble Downing Street 12 noon Sat 19 July
Jul 16th, 2014 by Newsdesk.Why Labour should boycott G4S as a provider of security to its conference
Jul 9th, 2014 by Greg Dropkin and John Nicholson.G4S is mired in scandal, but the company will provide security at Labour Party conference in September. Stop G4S campaigners Greg Dropkin and John Nicholson ask trade unionists and party members to demand Labour withhold contracts until, at least, the company pulls out of Israeli prisons and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During the recent UNITE […]
Who mourns for the Palestinians?
Jul 3rd, 2014 by Jeremy Corbyn.Nothing can justify these abductions and murders, which we again condemn. Those responsible must be brought to justice … but justice will not be served by Israel seeking revenge by imposing collective punishment, or committing other violations of Palestinians’ rights.” Thus said Philip Luther of Amnesty International in response to the murder of three Israeli […]
Peter Hain is right – the two-state solution is dead
Feb 13th, 2014 by Mohamed Harrath.In his recent contribution to the Israel-Palestine debate, Peter Hain did something remarkable. In a speech at Swansea University, the Labour MP, former Northern Ireland secretary, and veteran anti-apartheid campaigner broke with the consensus that a two-state solution spells the best chance of securing a just and peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unsurprisingly, Hain […]
Now Israel annexes all the Jews of the world
May 27th, 2013 by Uri Avnery.Can a law be both ridiculous and dangerous? It certainly can. Witness the ongoing initiative of the Israeli government to enact a law that would define the State of Israel as “The Nation-State of the Jewish People”. Ridiculous 1 – because what and who is the “Jewish people”? The Jews of the world are a […]
No platform for Israelis?
Feb 21st, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.No Platform for Israelis. So says George Galloway in the video above. Oh dear. Galloway’s career has seen alternating cycles of popular acclaim and public self-immolation. As Galloway is an intelligent man and a seasoned political bruiser, none of this is entirely accidental.
An Introduction to Israel and Palestine (video)
Dec 3rd, 2012 by Newsdesk.An excellent six-minute animated introduction to the IsraelPalestine conflict, courtesy of the US-based Jewish Voice for Peace.
Israel/Palestine and why the conflict needs less ideological posturing
Nov 24th, 2012 by James Bloodworth.Almost all of those with an overtly ideological take on the conflict in Israel/Palestine come across as slightly deranged. The justification offered by supporters of each side is that it is their faction that is in the right, their faction that is acting in self-defence, and that it is the other side which is motivated […]
So how should a Jew react to Jewish Apartheid?
Oct 27th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Two weeks ago, by one authority at least (the government of Israel), there appeared for the first time since 1967 to be a non-Jewish majority in the land of, or occupied by, Israel — leading liberal Israeli daily Haaretz to declare that “a situation of apartheid exists“. A week later, this news was trumped by […]
Luke Akehurst in Holocaust smear of Coop’s illegal Israeli settlement boycott
Aug 22nd, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Two months ago, we had occasion to reprimand Luke Akehurst, a member of Labour’s national executive (until next month anyway), for invoking the Holocaust in defence of Progress, Labour’s Blairite party-within-a-party. Now he’s at it again, this time in order to attack the Co-op. Yes the Co-op.