Sebutinde’s opinion opened with a lengthy history of the Israel-Palestine conflict that blended well-worn Zionist propaganda with the Old Testament. In rejecting her colleagues’ ruling declaring Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal, she resorted to accounts of the Jewish presence in the biblical land of Israel, omitting...
The Torah Judaism Jewish group has called on world countries to sever all ties with the Israeli occupation, which it said was founded on the “perverse ideology” of Zionism. Further recalling the slaughter of Jews during the Holocaust, the Torah Judaism group revealed that Zionists did not interfere when anti-Zionist...
The Palestinian Authority is deeply unpopular in the West Bank, with the vast majority of the population polled repeatedly expressing their desire for PA President Abbas to step down and even favoring the current authority’s collapse.This is largely down to its widespread image as being deeply corrupted, as well as...
Benjamin Netanyahu will not travel to Poland next month for the main ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, over concern that he could be arrested on the basis of the warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
What is happening in Gaza can no longer be considered collateral damage in a war against terrorism,” says Henri Goldman, a member of the UPJB. “For example, when we systematically destroy all drinking water supply networks, when we obstruct any significant humanitarian aid, we can no longer beat around the...
Justin Trudeau has a choice: siding with the morally bankrupt oppressor or with the morally upright oppressed. Between the oppression spearheaded by Netanyahu and the resistance to oppression spearheaded by Palestinian resistance groups (the PLO in the past; today by Hamas), there is no moral equivalency indeed. To claim differently...
In the wake of October 7, scholars of antisemitism, genocide, and Jewish history have warned of the ways that particularly traumatic episodes in Jewish history have been evoked to justify Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and crack down on those who criticize it.
Some Harris voters told me they were following the 1930’s examples of socialists voting liberal to defeat fascists. History may repeat itself to some degree, but any strategy must include an analysis with more subtlety and nuance than that simple formulation reflects. What are the similarities between Trumpism and classic...
More than the lack of humanitarian aid, it was the incessant artillery fire that made Youssef flee the Jabalia refugee camp, much worse, he says, than the air raids. Buildings have been destroyed and there have been no rescuers for several weeks to go and save the victims, he reports....