Palestine
2 August 2021 · Israel, Palestine
2021, the year of Israeli apartheid
We are publishing this piece from Jewish Voice for Labour because we not only agree with it but think it is highly significant. JVL Introduction Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead argue that…
18 July 2021 · · Middle East, Palestine
Palestinian liberation and the MENA revolutions
Israel’s recent attacks against Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza demonstrated, once again, the brutal colonial, racist, and apartheid nature of the Zionist state, writes Josep…
17 May 2021 · Palestine
Solidarity with Palestinians against neocolonial aggression
Statement of the Fourth International In recent weeks, Palestinians in Jerusalem have mobilized en masse to defend their basic right – to live in their own homes, homes to their families for…
21 September 2020 · Labour Party, Palestine
British Palestinians speak out
Socialist Resistance has always stood in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. We have opposed the silencing of Palestinian voices inside the Labour Party, which has been a hidden conseq…
15 May 2020 · Labour Party, Palestine, Uncategorized
British Palestinians' letter to Labour's leadership candidates
My brothers, sister and I sent the letter below to the three Labour Party leadership candidates because we were increasingly horrified by their capitulation to the extreme Zionist lobby’s ou…
24 February 2020 · · Palestine
Palestine: The “deal of the century” or a new attempt to liquidate the Palestinian question
On January 28 in Washington, a so-called Middle East peace plan was presented by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and in the notable absence of the Pa…
22 August 2019 · · Israel, Palestine, USA, antisemitism
On Trump and Netanyahu and mutual interests
It has been an interesting week, writes Susan Pashkoff. Two members of Congress, Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib had been invited to visit the Israeli-occupied territories under…
28 May 2019 · Israel, Middle East, Palestine · 1 comment
As Israel lines up with the far right, step up solidarity with Palestine
Israelis living in a self-imposed cultural bubble, in which they see themselves as living somewhere in the mid-Atlantic remote from the Middle East, saw their composure very slightly dented …
5 August 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism · 4 comments
The New Coup
The shape and direction of the current coup are clear, writes Roland Rance . Corbyn is being set up to lose, and Jews are being set up to take the blame. The plotters will not be satisfied w…
14 June 2018 · Palestine
Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad
For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines. Called by organisers t…
15 May 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine · 1 comment
Palestinian Lives matter
It seems almost inevitable that by the time this short piece is published more Palestinians will have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli state, writes Veronica Fagan . And yesterday’s deat…
12 May 2018 · Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
Corbyn under Fire
For weeks, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been the target of a defamatory campaign meant to undermine it, wrote Daniel Finn on April 9. The dominant narrative in the British media about Je…
21 April 2018 · Palestine
The courage of the #GreatReturnMarch
Statement of the Fourth International The Fourth International salutes the desperate courage, resolve and creativity of the thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip taking part in the #Gr…
15 April 2018 · · Palestine, Reviews · 1 comment
Comedy from the front line
Showtime from the Frontline by Mark Thomas, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Alaa Shehada I’m sorry to be writing this review so close to the end of the run of this remarkable show as my message is t…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
How not to fight antisemitism
On March 30 2018 Israel accelerated its practice of deliberate cold-blooded murder of Palestinian civilians demonstrating peacefully in their own land, writes Ariel Pardess . But you might n…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
Palestinians will not be silenced
As a British Palestinian Arab and member of the Labour Party I am beginning to feel there is a minority who do not want the Party to welcome people like me. And they sure don’t want to make …
5 April 2018 · Israel, Palestine
Solidarity with Gaza
Friday March 30 2018 saw the murder of sixteen Palestinians and the injury of at least 1500, mostly from live ammunition by Israeli troops as they protested inside Gaza, reports Susan Moore …
19 December 2017 · Israel, Palestine, USA · 2 comments
When tragedy ends as farce...
Watching world leaders’ response to Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel on the basis that it was simply acknowledging reality would have been humorous if the situati…
16 November 2017 · Britain, Israel, Palestine
A century after the Balfour Declaration
On November 15, London Socialist Resistance held a meeting commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. The speakers were Bernard Regan and Roland Rance both of whom have …
3 November 2017 · Israel, Middle East, Palestine, antisemitism
Palestinians still paying for European antisemitism
The hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, by which Britain promised the land of Palestine, over the heads of its Arab inhabitants, to Jews fleeing European racism and pogroms, ha…
15 September 2017 · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
No backsliding on Palestinian rights
Labour’s National Policy Forum is trying to weaken an already inadequate party policy on Palestine explains Ariel Pardess Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party into the May general election wit…