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Israel/Palestine


Boycott Israel?

The debate as to whether boycotting Israel is a good tactic in support of the Palestinians


Israel-Palestine: Two Nations Two States!

Israel/Palestine

Israel out of the Occupied Territories!
For a Palestinian state with the same rights as Israel!

For a socialist Israel and a socialist Palestine in a socialist federation of the Middle East!

AWL Pamphlet:
Two Nations, Two States - Socialists and Israel/Palestine

Buy the pamphlet online here, or read articles from it.


Democracy still the key in Unison

Boycott Israel?
Author: 
Conference Delegate

In his speech to this year’s conference of the public services union Unison, in Brighton in mid-June, general secretary Dave Prentis called on the “Labour Link” section of the union to stop funding constituency development plans, and to work only with Labour MPs who abide by the union’s values and objectives.


Obama signals drive for a deal

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
John Nihil

So long as the Jewish and Arab workers in the Middle East remain subordinate to the forces of Israeli and Arab (or Islamic) chauvinism — as they are now — the only hope for Palestinian progress towards their own state is from intervention on their behalf from outside governments.

Of those, the USA is the decisive one.


Misunderstandings, Misrepresentations and Lies: Getting Workers' Liberty wrong Part 3

Workers' Liberty
Author: 
Sean Matgamna

Continuing a series on misunderstandings, misrepresentations and lies about the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty.


RMT calls protest to support Arab workers on Israeli railways

Iraq

The RMT rail union has called a protest outside the Israeli embassy in London on 11 May to support Arab workers threatened with the sack from Israeli railways. More details here.


Two appeals from Palestinian workers

Israel and Palestine

East Jerusalem workers appeal for support

Twenty one Palestinian workers from East Jerusalem who have been employed by the Israeli Antiquities Authority have lost their jobs in a bid by the employer to get around the law. They are victims of the kind of outsourcing many of you will be familiar with in your own countries. They've launched an international appeal for support.


Sheffield Gaza occupation rallies activists across the country

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Gemma Short

Students at Sheffield University have been in occupation of space in the Hicks Building since Monday 16 March; on 23 March the occupation spread to the university's new, extremely posh, flagship exhibition centre.


Challenging Israeli militarism — and “absolute anti-Zionism”

Tamar
Author: 
Sacha Ismail

Between 5 and 13 March, I had the privilege of touring round the UK with Tamar Katz, a 19 year-old women from Tel Aviv who was jailed for three months at the end of last year for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Force as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians.


Greetings from Occupied Sheffield

Education
Author: 
Daniel Randall (pc)

I write to you from inside a student occupation.


World News in Brief

Asia

Japan

Thousands of workers have rallied in Tokyo demanding job security and wage rises.


War-refusers: the other Israel

Tamar Katz
Author: 
Interview with Tamar Katz

Following massive demonstrations and a wave of student occupations against Israel’s war in Gaza, British activists have been hosting a speaker tour with Tamar Katz, one of the Shministim, Israeli high school students jailed for refusing to fight in the occupied Palestinian territories.


Debate on Israeli war-refusers

Israel/Palestine

The Shministim - A Dubious Cause !
By Ian Sternberg


Stop Israel's War on the Palestinians

Israel/Palestine

Israel’s bloody attack on Gaza in December and January left over 1,000 Palestinians dead, including hundreds of children.


As we were saying: the Muslim Association of Britain's first public appearance, April 2002

MAB placard
Author: 
AWL leaflet

Solidarity with the Palestinians — but don't line up behind Hamas!

ON 13 APRIL [2002] there was a big London march "for Palestine". What happened was shocking from a socialist standpoint, and harmful to the Palestinian cause.


Debating Gaza

Israel/Palestine

About 60 people, mostly young, crammed into a Green Park social centre on 15 January for a forum on the war in Gaza held jointly by Workers' Liberty and the Worker-communist Party of Iraq.


Student action on Gaza: occupying against the occupation

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Ed Maltby

Students at nearly 20 universities across the UK have staged occupations in protest at Israel’s war on Gaza.


Who speaks for Jewish people in Britain?

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Ira Berkovic

While many, perhaps most, Jews globally do feel some sense of identification with the Israeli-Jewish nation (its people, at least, if not the State of Israel itself), and while many Jews are understandably a great deal more sensitive to the threat posed by Hamas’s anti-semitic project than many on the British left, it is by no means the case that world Jewry is united in support for the colonialist adventures of the Israeli government in the Occupied Territories.


Gaza: the ceasefire is fragile

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Colin Foster

On 28 January Israel launched its heaviest attack yet on Gaza since its official ceasefire, sending in bombers in retaliation for a Hamas attack on an Israeli army patrol. Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said that the bombing, and an earlier ground incursion, would be followed by a heavier response.


Israeli student war-refuser tours Britain, 5-14 March

Tamar

The Shministim speak: Israeli student jailed for refusing to serve in army tours Britain, 5-14 March 2009


The "cowardice" of AWL on the Gaza war?

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Eric Lee, Sean Matgamna, Ian Sternberg, Sacha Ismail

A debate from the website (in full here).


Workers of the world: Guadeloupe, Israel, United States

France
Author: 
Ira Berkovic

GUADELOUPE: The French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been rocked by a general strike — a total shut-down of shops, supermarkets, schools and public services.


Israel out of Gaza and the West Bank!

Imperialism
23 Feb 2009 - 5:00pm
23 Feb 2009 - 6:00pm

Location: 

Opposite the Israeli Embassy, Kensington High St, 2 minutes from Kensignton High St tube station


Description: 

Weekly pickett of Israeli Embassy to demonstrate against the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip and occupation of the West Bank. Calling for the creation of an independent palestinian state on the basis of internationalist working-class solidarity and the recognition of both the palestinian and israeli right to national self determination.


AWL Sheffield public meeting: Workers' unity in the Middle East

Israel/Palestine
19 Feb 2009 - 7:30pm
19 Feb 2009 - 9:00pm

Location: 

Dales Room, University of Sheffield Students' Union


Description: 

What's the way out of a national conflict that's lasted over 60 years and a colonial occupation that began in 1967? How can Palestinian and Israeli workers unite to find a solution based on mutual respect and common struggle? And what can we do to support them?

7:30-9pm, Dales Room, University of Sheffield Students' Union

Facebook event here.

More: 07961040618


As right gains, step up solidarity with Israeli left

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Ira Berkovic

As we go to press, both of Israel’s main centre-right parties — Likud and Kadimah — were claiming victory in the general election. Most exit polls gave 30 seats to Kadimah and 29 to Likud.


Co-ordinating the occupations

Universities
Author: 
Koos Couvée

As Solidarity went to press, students at the University of East Anglia, Edinburgh University and Goldsmiths College in London had just gone into occupation in solidarity with Gaza — bringing the tot


Leeds AWL meeting: How do we best help the Palestinians?

Israel/Palestine
23 Feb 2009 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square


Description: 

We need democracy in the Palestinian solidarity movement!

Placard
Author: 
Editorial

On Saturday 17 January, a contingent of Workers’ Liberty members in Sheffield attended a demonstration to oppose the Israeli assault on Gaza, as we had done for the previous two Saturdays.


For two states and workers' unity!

Israel/Palestine

In the last issue of Solidarity, we called for a campaign to make solidarity with the Palestinians on a rational, internationalist basis, fighting for a two-state settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and making solidarity with working-class and democratic forces against political Islam as well as the Israeli ruling class.


The Socialist Party and Gaza: "Socialism" as Evasion and Placebo

SP leaflet
Author: 
Sean Matgamna

Among those who criticise AWL for openly proclaiming our policy on the Middle East — Israel out of the Occupied Territories; two states, i.e. a Palestinian state alongside Israel; hostility to political Islam and Islamic clerical fascism — on the Gaza demonstrations have been members of the Socialist Party.


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