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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.


Don't let the Israeli state silence Emelia Marcovich!

Israel/Palestine
28 Jan 2010 - 6:00pm
28 Jan 2010 - 7:00pm

Location: 

Kensington High Street (at the entrance to the road where the Israeli embassy is)


Description: 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, FOR DIRECTIONS ON THE DAY, OR IF YOU WANT TO ORGANISE A PROTEST IN YOUR CITY OR AREA, RING DANIEL ON 07961 040 618.

This year, hundreds of Israeli high school students and graduates (Shministim) have again refused to serve in the Israeli army in protest at 'their' government's continuing oppression of the Palestinians, facing prison as a result.

One of them is Emelia Marcovich. She is going to be jailed on Tuesday 1 February, and her comrades have called for global demonstrations in protest on Thursday 28.

Join us in London to show solidarity - with the Palestinians and with courageous Israeli internationalists like Emelia.

Facebook event here.

Location: www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=525741&y=179806&z=0&sv=W8+4QB&st=2&pc=W8+4QB&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf

For more on the Shministim see december18th.org


How Trotskyists debated Palestine before the Holocaust

Trotsky
Author: 
Robert Fine

In this article Robert Fine looks at working-class socialist views from the late 1930s on Palestine.


Gaza: Hamas steps up its control

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Dan Katz

On 12 November Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed the Palestinian parliamentary and Presidential elections due in January 2010. He said this was because of lack of progress on US-sponsored peace talks. But part of the background to the current situation is the repression of Abbas’s political allies, Fatah, in Gaza, by Hamas.


Channel 4 on Israel Lobby: Back the Palestinians, Reject 'Jew Conspiracy' Theories

Fighting anti-semitism
Author: 
Editorial

The plain facts will impart a strong bias against Israel in any simple, straightforwardly honest report of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Today it is a David and Goliath story, with the Palestinians in the David and Israel in the Goliath role.


Gaza: clampdown on women's freedom as Hamas tightens grip

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Dan Katz

On 24 October Fatah’s Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set the date of Palestinian elections for 24 January 2010.


Avigdor Lieberman and the Israeli Arabs

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Dan Katz

Avigdor Lieberman is in the news over corruption allegations. But what does the political grouping around Lieberman represent? And what do Lieberman’s number one target, Arab Israelis, think about political developments in Israel?


Avigdor Liberman and the Israeli Arabs

Israel/Palestine
Author: 
Dan Katz

Avigdor Lieberman leads Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home), which won 15 of the 120 Knesset seats in the February 2009 Israeli general election.


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.


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