Israel/Palestine

The Morning Star carries claims, some veiled, some shameless, that support for Ukraine is somehow incompatible with support for the Palestinian cause

Hamas built a theocratic police state, integrating their militias into new police and security forces, replacing the judiciary with their own people, merging sharia law into the legal system, and purging secular teachers from the education system.

Uri Weltmann is the National Field Organiser of Standing Together (Naqef Ma'an-Omdim be'Yachad), a left-wing social movement bringing together Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel to fight for peace and equality. He spoke to Daniel Randall during a recent visit to London. The conversation took place on 12 December.

Adam Keller, a longstanding peace activist in Israel, spoke to Solidarity in December 2023

many come to the Gaza ceasefire marches out of elemental human solidarity with the people of Gaza. But there is heterogeneity and heterogeneity.

On 28 December, around 1,000 Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel rallied in Tel Aviv to demand a ceasefire agreement, the return of hostages, and a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.

An 18 year old Israeli, Tal Mitnick, has gone to prison after refusing to join the military in protest at the Israeli assault on Gaza. (Pictured above holding a placard of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, murdered by an Israeli soldier in May 2022.) You can donate to support Mesarvot , the network for youth military “refusers” of which Mitnick is part, here . And the wider Refuser Solidarity Network here . Mitnick is the first public military refuser since the 7 October Hamas atrocities in southern Israel and Israel’s launching of the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. Such left-wing...

Four articles by Hein Htet Kyaw, and a comment by Martin Thomas

Discussing the different strands in "Zionism"

The intercommunal conflict can be traced back to the Ottoman empire.