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Keir Starmer: a damning appraisal
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Tom Blackburn reviews Oliver Eagleton’s important book, The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, Verso 2022, in the latest…
#cps #press #gestapo #starmer #metpolice #winstanley
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We post this one day before Kol Nidre which marks the start of the Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of…
on Thu, 2AM
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Call for Justice: complaint about 1000 Israeli soldiers
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This Press Release issued one day after the anniversary of October 7th provides an outline of the key elements of…
on Oct 10
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Juliet Stevenson says: UK support for Israel’s military has to stop
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In a new short film, Every Day a New Atrocity, award-winning actor Juliet Stevenson lends her voice to a global…
on Oct 3
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Jews around the world say: End the genocide – End the occupation!
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Please watch and share this short video for Global Jews for Palestine in which Jewish Voice for Labour is an…
on Oct 2
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Avi Shlaim: ‘Three Worlds – Memoirs of an Arab – Jew’
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Graham Bash reviews this groundbreaking personal and political memoir by Avi Shlaim in which he laments the lost world of…
on Oct 2
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Beyond Hasbara to Indoctrination for Israel’s school students
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Ssssshhh, don’t mention the hostages! One year on from October 7th, the Israeli government has issued a memo to schools…
on Sep 30
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Israeli Schools Seed Genocide: an interview with Nurit Peled-Elhanan
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Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a distinguished Israeli academic who has written much on how Israeli schoolbooks are full of virulent anti-Palestinian…
on Sep 27
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Sarah Wilkinson in her own words
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Sarah Wilkinson, prolific online chronicler of the plight of Palestinians, tells how UK anti-terrorism police raided her home, another attempt…
on Sep 5
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Palestinian lives “Not of the same order” – Chief Rabbi of France
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Just when you think the depravity of Israel’s defenders has reached rock bottom, along comes the Chief Rabbi of France,…
on Sep 1
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Jeremy Corbyn was right about Putin from the start
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Peter Oborne looks back at the vilification of Jeremy Corbyn and highlights that he was one of the first to…
on Aug 13
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Netanyahu’s willing executioners: how ordinary Israelis became mass murderers
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The genocidal impulses, witnessed so strongly in so many ways in the war on Gaza cannot simply be blamed on…
on Aug 11
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Prof. Amos Goldberg: “Yes, it is genocide”
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Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wrote the following article about the situation in…
on Jul 13
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Smotrich Has Completed Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank
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In an opinion piece for Haaretz, renowned Israeli human-right lawyer Michael Sfard describes the constitutional revolution recently effected in the…
on Jul 12
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Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Not quite what you might imagine
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Zionism has meant many different things to many people over time. Although its founder, Theodor Herzl, is feted…
on Jun 26
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The Church of England’s complicity in Gaza war crimes
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In an extended 13,000+ word essay published in May, the Rev Stephen Sizer looked at the Church of England’s complicity…
on Jun 26
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Jewish Voice for Labour is proud to have hosted the first ever congress of the International Jewish Collective…
on Jun 24
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Starmer accused of ‘gaslighting’ on Palestinian statehood recognition
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Starmer, it is claimed, will take a big step forward and put into recognition of Palestine “before the end of…
on Jun 23
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In an opinion piece in Haaretz, veteran reporter Gideon Levy warns, Cassandra-like, against the looming disaster of the coming war…
on Jun 23
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Two resignations, with more to come
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Two more resignations from Labour of decades-long activist members who, like former Labour MP Colin Challen, have simply had enough.…
on Jun 5
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A former Labour MP has had enough
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We repost two brief notes by former Labour MP Colin Challen, now former Labour member. Always considering himself as on…
on Jun 5
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An Open Letter from Concerned Jewish Faculty at the University of Oxford
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Concerned Jewish faculty at Oxford have released a statement on the University’s response to student protests against the…
on Jun 1
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Friends of Israel Groups – what is their impact?
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JVL is publishing a second review of “Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity” by Hil Aked as John…
on May 31
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The “most moral army in the world” violates morality with impunity
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Janan Abdu in +972 magazine [“where Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists, and thinkers can report on and analyze what is…
on May 21
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Jewish Journeys from Zionism (10): Leah Levane
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This, the tenth in JVL’s “Journeys from Zionism” series is the story of Leah Levane, JVL’s Co chair. Leah outlines…
on May 17
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Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza
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The Guardian reports on a legal move begun within Israel to redress the issue of “Extensive and blatant incitement to…
on Apr 19
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Court rejects defamatory claims against academic
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A court judgement in favour of an academic who was defamed by pro-Israel campaigners reveals the underhand methods used against…
on Apr 14
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There is no Green Line; Israel makes sure of that
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This detailed piece from Ha’aretz looks at how changes in funding arrangements, in responsibilities of ministries and yet more examples…
on Apr 14
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Jewish Journeys from Zionism (8) Charlotte Prager Williams
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I kept my (antizionist) feelings to myself, and slowly over the years I read more, talked more and accepted that…
on Apr 1
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Guilt by association thrives in Starmer’s Labour
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Mike Cushman, JVL’s membership secretary, has been expelled (or in the Party’s dystopian words, ‘terminated’) by the Labour Party. This…
on Mar 15
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On March 2, the day after we learned of Labour’s trouncing by George Galloway in the Rochdale parliamentary…
on Mar 5
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Professor Gus John sent this piece to us on 22nd February 2024 and happily agreed to us publishing this. Professor…
on Mar 1
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Isaac Asimov On Antisemitism And The Universality Of Prejudice
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Isaac Asimov, one of the great founders of modern science fiction, was actually born in post-revolutionary Russia into an orthodox…
on Mar 1
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Weaponising antisemitism is a busted flush
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Masks have started to slip, veils are being lifted, scales are falling and chickens are coming home to roost…
on Feb 29
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Labour’s treatment of left wing Jews – an update
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Yet again the Labour Party has responded derisively to evidence from Jewish members that they have been treated unlawfully in…
on Feb 9
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Open letter to Chief Rabbi Mirvis
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Marge Berer, like many of us, was outraged at Rabbi Mirvis’s high-handed dismissal of he ICJ ruling on the Gaza…
on Feb 8
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Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza – a poem
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Khaled Juma’s poem “Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza” was written during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge…
on Feb 7
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The final straw for another Labour member
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Nick Jenkins long term Labour Party member, most recently in Calder Valley has responded to Starmer who said that “if…
on Jan 22
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Michael Rosen has been writing stories about the King and the King’s tutor (a descendant, perhaps, of one Niccolò Machiavelli).…
on Jan 7
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Songs to Make It Better – Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko
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Daniel Kahn is known for putting Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah into Yiddish. Two…
on Jan 5
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Brief response to an ‘antisemitism’ hoax
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The self-styled Campaign Against Antisemitism has devised a report to support a predetermined conclusion and to tarnish the Labour Party…
on Dec 18
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Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt warn against fascism in Israel
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The letter below, published 75 years ago today in the New York Times, was prescient. Signed by Albert…
on Dec 6
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Sunday’s march against antisemitism is not a march against antisemitism
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The Campaign Against Antisemitism describes itself as “a volunteer-led charity dedicated to exposing and countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance…
on Nov 24
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Ukrainians stand with Palestinians
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This comprehensive open letter from prominent Ukrainians expresses solidarity with and understanding of the historical context as well as the…
on Nov 19
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History of the slogan “From the river to the sea”
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Adam Johannes presents a short history of the slogan “from the river to the sea…” and its vicissitudes through different…
on Nov 11
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Cheap provocation from Israel’s United Nations envoy says Ha’aretz
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In an editorial Haaretz, Israel’s leading liberal daily, expresses its outrage at the abuse of the Holocaust by Gilad Erdan,…
on Nov 1
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Orly Nor, an editor at +972 Magazine, stands up bravely against the current of warmongering and hysteria in a country…
on Oct 25
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How many antisemites in Labour? Facts not factionalism
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We are seeing growing evidence calling into question the oft-repeated claim that antisemitic abuse was widespread in the Labour Party…
on Oct 2, 2023