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Edwin Black, who has written an excellent book on the Nazi-Zionist Transfer Agreement (Haavarah), which broke the anti-Nazi Boycott of Germany, has also written extensively on how US capitalism supported Hitler and in particular on the nefarious role of IBM, which had a site in every major concentration camp. Without IBM the Nazis would not…

Rumours have been circulating, not least on this blog, that the SWP have finally woken up to the fact that it is useless denying that Gilad Atzmon is anti-Semitic and a holocaust denier, despite their attempts to brush it under the carpet and pretend that nothing is amiss. In the spirit of comradeliness I wrote…

An interesting book which is likely to set the cats among the pigeons. There is no doubt that Einstein was a Zionist supporter in the early 1920’s, as was Hanna Arendt. Both became more and more disillusioned as time progresssed and Einstein, as the review makes clear below, opposed the establishment of the Israeli State…

It is not well known that the early founders of Zionism were devoted adherents to the racial sciences and Eugenics in particular. People like Max Nordau and Arthur Ruppin. The following article shows how this was the accepted wisdom of the Zionist movement’s leadership. For example Ruppin, in charge of land settlement for the Jewish…

Israeli company tells Tel Aviv labour court that compensation claims of enemy workers from Gaza must not be heard in court In December 2008, Sawt el-Amel filed compensation claims on behalf of 13 workers from Gaza who used to work in the former Israeli-controlled Erez industrial zone. Since then, hundreds of men and women from…

According to Charlie Pottins, thousands joined the Gaza march called by three left-wing Palestinian organisations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine(DFLP), and the Palestine People’s Party(PPP). RED flags were flying in the streets of Gaza, and in the southern districts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, to celebrate…

People may remember the article a few weeks ago on the attempt to sack Arab workers from Israel Railways because they hadn’t served in the army. This is one of the means by which Apartheid is maintained in Israel without the need for ‘Jews Only’ signs or specific legislation reserving jobs etc. to Jews only.…

In its backward advance to 1984, The Party of Israel’s new fascist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman’s , Yisrael Beteinu, is proposing that make it illegal for Israel’s own Arab citizens from commemorating the Nakba. Presumably the truth is too uncomfortable for much of the Zionist movement, which hosted and welcomed Lieberman in all European countries.…

On 4th May, a group of us wrote to Steven James, CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians. MAP, formed in 1984, has a reputation second to none when it comes to support for the health and welfare of Palestinians living under occupation. It was for that reason that we were concerned to see that Gilad…

AN OPEN LETTER TO LEONARD COHENDear Leonard Cohen, We are Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens, who hold your poetry and music in high esteem, and it is because of this respect for your artistic contributions and your moral Buddhist commitment to “save all beings” that we hope that our appeal to you to cancel your planned…