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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…
Read MoreJeremy 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. …
Read MoreDefend Ezra Nawi – an Israeli pacifist and Campaigner for Palestinian Rights
Palestinians in Bi’ilin march in support of a Jewish comrade Ezra Nawi at Susiya village which the army intended to demolish It comes to something when Palestinians take to the streets to demonstrate in favour of an Israeli Jew, but that is what has happened in the West Bank village of Bi’ilin. But it demolishes the…
Read MoreIsraeli Soldiers Enjoy a Day’s Shooting
Here you can see the reality of the fiction that Israeli soldiers only shoot when their lives are in danger. Palestinian teenagers throwing stones are targeted by Israeli snipers who thoroughly enjoy the occasion.
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreFREE 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…
Read MoreOpen 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreBanning the northern Islamic Movement Demonstrates that for Arabs Israel is no Democracy
Demonstration against the banning of the northern wing of the Islamic Movement Netanyahu decided on November 17th to ban the northern wing of the Islamic Movement. A movement which is supported by about half of Israeli Palestinians. Netanyahu did this for nakedly political reasons, as Jonathan Cook shows in his article below. Raed Salah outside…
Read MoreZionists Squeal as American Methodists Disinvest From Israeli Apartheid
$20 Billion Methodist Investment Fund Disinvests from Israeli Banks I am very pleased to announce the decision of the $20 billion United Methodist Church’s Investment Fund in the USA to disinvest from 5 Israeli banks. This is a very welcome decision. Just as with the Jewish Boycott of Nazi Germany in the 1930’s (which the…
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