Denmark’s Nazi Like Treatment of Refugees

As this cartoon from Steven Bell shows, the decision by the Danish state to strip refugees of all valuables brings to mind the treatment of Jewish deportees by the Nazis. This is especially shameful given the heroic record of Danish people during the second world war when the vast majority of Danish Jews were saved…

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Report on PSC AGM 2016

PSC Executive – Conservative and Fearful of Its Own Shadow Despite nominally opposing Prevent, PSC Executive opposed affiliating to the Together Against Prevent group Below is a report on PSC AGM by Gerry Downing.  It is fine as it goes but fails to draw out many of the political conclusions from this year’s event. I…

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The Attack on Israel’s Human Rights Organisations by the State

When Israeli Jewish Opponents of the  Occupation are Targeted for attack the  Israeli Labour Party Offers its Support Ezra Nawi – arrested Human Rights Worker The article below in Israel’s 972 Magazine illustrates graphically the attack on Israeli human rights organisations and groups which oppose the Occupation and highlight its casual brutality. Ezra Nawi has been detained,…

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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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