Israel is working overtime to hide its crimes (David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 March 2025) Palestinian captives in Israeli prison face 'health disaster', advocacy group warns (Middle East Eye, 27 March 2025) Israel parliament passes bill bringing judicial appointments under political control (Middle East Eye, 27 March 2025) How operating drones became a death … Continue reading Palestine Links April 2025
Palestinians in Egypt fear for return amid Trump uncertainty (Reem Sleem, Electronic Intifada, 27 February 2025) ICC urged to investigate Biden’s personal role in Gaza genocide (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 26 February 2025) Tough return to harsh reality (Abdallah al-Naami, Electronic Intifada, 26 February 2025) By pulling Gaza film, BBC shows it cannot stand up … Continue reading Palestine Links, March 2025
Labour Affairs Group There are now four main pieces of counter-terrorism legislation: the Terrorism Act 2000, the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001, the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, and the Terrorism Act 2006. Plus The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (which includes the “Prevent” programme). In fact this list may not be exhaustive, as the anti-terror legislation keeps … Continue reading Use of the Terrorism Acts against Palestine supporters
(Reprinted from Church and State 2025) British Premier Sir Keir Starmer took part in mid-December, in his official capacity as British Prime Minister, in the Jewish celebration of the festival of Hanukkah. A segment of his speech played by the media suggested that Hanukkah was about meditation conducive to peace, rather like what Christmas has become in … Continue reading Celebrating Hanukkah!
Three Israeli captives released in exchange for 183 Palestinians (Middle East Eye, 8 February 2025) US State Department informs Congress of $7.4 billion arms sale to Israel (Times of Israel, 7 February 2025) The Middle East's longest-reigning king heads into a standoff with Trump (Sean Mathews, Middle East Eye, 7 February 2025) The damage of … Continue reading Palestine Links February 2025
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/icc-arrest-warrants-welcomed-as-a-glimmer-of-hope-in-gaza/ 24/11/2024 While many Palestinians in Gaza see Netanyahu and Gallant warrants as merely symbolic, the faint promise of justice still resonates By Maha Hussaini in Deir al-Balah, occupied Palestine22 November 2024 Sitting in Gaza City, Anas al-Ramlawi could hear the bombardment of northern Gaza. He read the news. The International Criminal Court (ICC) had … Continue reading ICC arrest warrants welcomed as ‘a glimmer of hope’ in Gaza
Full text of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon (Josephine Deep, Middle East Eye, 27 November 2024) 'Why is Hezbollah celebrating?' Israelis unconvinced by ceasefire agreement (Lubna Masarwa, Middle East Eye, 27 November 2024) Lebanon: Israel and Hezbollah agree to ceasefire brokered by US and France (Josephine Deep & Lubna Masarwa, 27 November 2024) … Continue reading Palestine Links—December 2024
Mustafa Barghouti reflects on the future of the Palestinian struggle in a time of genocide and ethnic cleansing (Mondoweiss, 7 October 2024) Israeli bombing kills entire family in West Bank (Tamara Nassar, 6 October 2024) A year after October 7: British Jewish views on Israel, antisemitism and Jewish life (Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 5 … Continue reading Palestine Links November 2024
Torture, abuse and humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli prison ‘hell’ (Guardian, 5 August 2024) Hubris drives deadly Israeli gamble in Tehran (Omar Karmi, Electronic Intifada, 31 July 2024) Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh will strengthen resistance resolve (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 31 July 2024) Canada strikes Jewish National Fund’s charitable status (Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada, 25 July … Continue reading Palestine Links
How Israeli drone strikes are killing journalists in Gaza (Mariana Abreu, Aïda Delpuech, Eloïse Layan & Yuval Abraham, +972, 25 June 2024) Israel’s path to defeat: The implications (Helena Cobban, 21 June 2024) London Times is first mainstream outlet to debunk Israel's "mass rapes" hoax (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 16 June 2024) ICC must be … Continue reading Palestine Links July 2024
John ClaydenAn Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Force Made a Nation Verso, 2020by Haim Bresheeth-ZabnerNot long ago some of us went to demonstrate outside Hackney Police Station when we learnt the police were receiving training from the Israeli security services. Our MP Dianne Abbott turned up thereby no doubt sealing her own … Continue reading An Army Like No Other—Book Review
Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed (Yuval Abraham & Meron Rapoport, 28 May 2024) German foreign minister says she saw non-existent 7 Oct. rape video (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 27 May 2024) Can Palestinians imagine a future with Israelis after this war? (Mahmoud Mushtaha, +972, 27 May 2024) Doctor, teacher and children … Continue reading Palestine Links
(The photo shows Mosul after its destruction in 2017) "In a roundtable discussion Wednesday [8 May], former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp defended Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians by advocating military brutality as a general principle. .... “Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel is doing, we … Continue reading Military Brutality as a General Principle in Western Thinking
On 1st April Israel attacked an Iranian consulate in Damascus. 16 people were killed including two senior Iranian generals. This attack was against international law and gave Iran the right to make a retaliatory strike against Israel. But Israel has always made it clear that any attack on Israel would be responded to with even greater force by … Continue reading Israel’s Iranian Dilemma—Editorial
by Eamon Dyas The new definition Although the process had begun much earlier, the change in the definition of antisemitism began to have a direct bearing on the British body politic after Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party since 2015, took the party close to government in the 2017 general election. It was only … Continue reading The re-imagining of antisemitism and its implications
Manufacturing Famine: Israel is Committing the War Crime of Starvation in the Gaza Strip (B’Tselem Position Paper, April 2024) Did an Israel Lobbyist Confect an Antisemitism Story About a Palestine Demo? (Rivkah Brown, Novara Media, 22 April 2024) Mishal Husain Effortlessly Takes Down Suella Braverman's Attack On Met Police In Painful Exchange (HuffPost, 22 April 2024) … Continue reading Palestine Links
Eamon Dyas In order to complete the final stage of its full-scale invasion of Gaza the IDF says that it will be necessary to forcibly move “1.4 million people - or at least a significant amount of the 1.4 million people” that have now crowded into Rafah. The population of Rafah was around 280,000 before … Continue reading Israel’s Plans for Rafah – Redefining Genocide as a Humanitarian Mission
John McDonnell, the ICJ and another empty House of Commons Michael Murray (The photo shows the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands) On the 19th of March last, Labour MP John McDonnell tweeted: “The Government is sending arms to Israel that may be being used in attacks on Gaza, which under ICJ judgement may be … Continue reading “A Point of Order” on the ICJ Ruling
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