Israel
2 August 2021 · Israel, Palestine
2021, the year of Israeli apartheid
We are publishing this piece from Jewish Voice for Labour because we not only agree with it but think it is highly significant. JVL Introduction Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead argue that…
22 August 2019 · · Israel, Palestine, USA, antisemitism
On Trump and Netanyahu and mutual interests
It has been an interesting week, writes Susan Pashkoff. Two members of Congress, Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib had been invited to visit the Israeli-occupied territories under…
28 May 2019 · Israel, Middle East, Palestine · 1 comment
As Israel lines up with the far right, step up solidarity with Palestine
Israelis living in a self-imposed cultural bubble, in which they see themselves as living somewhere in the mid-Atlantic remote from the Middle East, saw their composure very slightly dented …
5 August 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism · 4 comments
The New Coup
The shape and direction of the current coup are clear, writes Roland Rance . Corbyn is being set up to lose, and Jews are being set up to take the blame. The plotters will not be satisfied w…
15 May 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine · 1 comment
Palestinian Lives matter
It seems almost inevitable that by the time this short piece is published more Palestinians will have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli state, writes Veronica Fagan . And yesterday’s deat…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
How not to fight antisemitism
On March 30 2018 Israel accelerated its practice of deliberate cold-blooded murder of Palestinian civilians demonstrating peacefully in their own land, writes Ariel Pardess . But you might n…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
Palestinians will not be silenced
As a British Palestinian Arab and member of the Labour Party I am beginning to feel there is a minority who do not want the Party to welcome people like me. And they sure don’t want to make …
5 April 2018 · Israel, Palestine
Solidarity with Gaza
Friday March 30 2018 saw the murder of sixteen Palestinians and the injury of at least 1500, mostly from live ammunition by Israeli troops as they protested inside Gaza, reports Susan Moore …
19 February 2018 · Britain, Israel · 2 comments
Who's next?
The attack on supporters of Palestinian rights and opponents of Israel’s war crimes has been so relentless that the targets can be forgiven a feeling of glee when the attackers themselves fa…
19 December 2017 · Israel, Palestine, USA · 2 comments
When tragedy ends as farce...
Watching world leaders’ response to Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel on the basis that it was simply acknowledging reality would have been humorous if the situati…
16 November 2017 · Britain, Israel, Palestine
A century after the Balfour Declaration
On November 15, London Socialist Resistance held a meeting commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. The speakers were Bernard Regan and Roland Rance both of whom have …
3 November 2017 · Israel, Middle East, Palestine, antisemitism
Palestinians still paying for European antisemitism
The hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, by which Britain promised the land of Palestine, over the heads of its Arab inhabitants, to Jews fleeing European racism and pogroms, ha…
15 September 2017 · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
No backsliding on Palestinian rights
Labour’s National Policy Forum is trying to weaken an already inadequate party policy on Palestine explains Ariel Pardess Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party into the May general election wit…