A broad coalition of faculty groups at the University of Edinburgh joined in requesting the administration to safeguard free speech on Palestine. But in a remarkable statement of demands, the coalition went further by calling for an end to complicity in Israel’s savage repression of Palestinian human rights: by ending financial investment and research links…
Masha Gessen, a Russian-American Jewish professor, won a prize in the name of Hannah Arendt, but when German sponsors of the prize heard his voice, so reminiscent of Arendt’s, they dissociated themselves from the prize and so too did the German town officials where the prize was to be awarded. Gessen’s comparison of human rights…
For the past half-dozen years, the Guardian has gone out of its way to protect Israel from criticism. Along with the BBC it led the way in discrediting Jeremy Corbyn, the only national party leader who has ever spoken up for Palestine, by tarring him with the brush of antisemitism. But every now and then…
Home > All News Items and Articles The UCU branch at the Open University has adopted two powerfully worded motions affirming their condemnation of war crimes by Hamas and Israel, their support for an immediate ceasefire, and their solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle against Israeli oppression for the past 75 years. The 1st…
The appeal below was issued barely more than a week after the Israeli assault on Gaza began. It is reproduced below because it is as timely today as it was then. If anything, it is even more urgent to heed it now. Do Not be Silent about Genocide Facebook Twitter Share 15 Oct 2023 Open Letter from…
A claim that the BBC’s news coverage of Israel-Palestine conflict is strongly biased against Palestine and in favour of Israel would not surprise anyone who closely follows developments there. It is nonetheless hugely valuable to have the report of two highly qualified academics, Greg Philo, Director of the Glasgow University Media Unit, and Mike Berry…
In a reasoned survey of the muddle served up to the British public as reportage on Gaza, Professor Jonathan Rosenhead outlines the mendacity of Western media and the complicity of Western leaders in the ‘atrocity crimes’ that Israel has been daily committing ever since 8 October. The original posted on the Jewish Voice for Labour…
In what may be the most grotesquely contradictory policy in modern Europe, Germany blindly supports Israel, possibly the most racist country in the world, in order to establish its own credentials as a non-racial state. This has led to steadily more repression of Palestinian sympathisers on German campuses, notwithstanding the guarantee of free speech in…
The struggle to silence the Palestinian story in countries claiming to uphold free speech has produced endless contradictions, but none more glaring than the effort in Germany to withhold the 2023 Hannah Arendt prize from Masha Gessen. Arendt was a German-American intellectual and critic of Israel. Gessen is a Russian-American intellectual and critic of Israel….
Home > All News Items and Articles On 2 November 1917 the British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Lionel, 2nd baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, promising to support the establishment of a Jewish “national home” – commonly understood to mean “state” – in Palestine,…