Israel Herzog v Gideon Levy and the Bankruptcy of Israeli Labour

The debate in the pages of Ha’aretz between Gideon Levy and Isaac Hertzog, leader of the Zionist Union/Israeli Labor Party demonstrates the utter bankruptcy of the Zionist ‘left’. It is a useful reminder of how useless the Israeli Labour Party is since there are illusions among the Corbynistas, not least Corbyn himself, that the Israeli…

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Jeremy Corbyn & the Retreat from Palestine

Jewish Chronicle report of Corbyn Backing Down Over Israel/Palestine Appeasing Zionism and Ignoring the Palestinians I have know Jeremy Corbyn for over 30 years.  When I was the Chairperson of the Labour Committee on Palestine and Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine Jeremy Corbyn was a regular speaker at our fringe meetings at Labour Party conference. …

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In 2016 one doesn’t have to be Adolf Eichmann to be executed in Israel – it’s enough to be a teenage Palestinian girl with scissors

An excellent article by Gideon Levy in Ha’aretz.  The Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom recently alleged that Israel was executing Palestinians. Sweden demands probe of Israeli ‘extrajudicial executions’ The response from Netanyahu was predictable.  He denounced her remarks as ‘outrageous’  Abdallah al-Shalalda was executed in Hebron hospital when an Israeli death squad came disguised in…

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FREE ASHRAF – PALESTINIAN POET UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH

Further Medieval Barbarity from  Saudia Arabia, the West’s Best Friend  Ashraf, a 35-year-old poet and artist, is sentenced to be executed by Saudi Arabian authorities for his art. On 17 November, the General Court in Abha, southwest Saudi Arabia, found Ashraf guilty of ‘apostasy’ – renouncing Islam – for his poetry and sentenced him to…

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Open Letter to Hilary Benn on Palestine

Below is an Open Letter I have sent to Hilary Benn concerning an article that he wrote for the Jewish News on his recent visit to Israel.  Benn has copied the tactics of Horatio Nelson and turned a blind eye to that which he didn’t want to see.  Below are also the statements of Fabian…

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How Nazareth Escaped the Nakba

Nazareth was the one Palestinian city in Israel whose inhabitants were not evicted in the Naqba.  Jonathan Cook tells the fascinating story of why Nazareth’s inhabitants escaped the massacres and expulsions.  He also tells the story of how Upper Nazareth was founded, as a way of confining and suffocating Nazareth.  In Upper Nazareth today, founded…

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