... while Lord Sydenham warned: Read more [...]
"… if you are the victim of… state violence you have no right of self-defence, and... no right to replicate your oppressors’ inhuman tactics. If you attempt it, your actions become terrorism. It suggests an unspoken international law of double standards." Read more [...]
"The reaction from every American lawmaker I‘ve seen is that Hamas, not Israel, must pay for its crimes. How? By giving more weapons to Israel so it can kill even more families." Read more [...]
A reminder of Israel's deliberate policy of shooting peaceful Palestinian protesters in such a manner as to cripple them for life, while Western states continue their rearguard defence of Israeli impunity. Read more [...]
"The democracy the Israeli left… believes in requires the continuance of an independent judiciary… as a check on the executive branch… but again the Palestinians are left out…They [the left] just want a secularist version of apartheid democracy." Read more [...]
The latest violence shows that 56 years of harsh occupation, punitive attempts to squash Palestinian resistance and aspirations, and settlement activity aimed at changing the West Bank's demographics have failed. Read more [...]
Despite Israeli attempt to delay intra-Zionist confrontation by pulverising the Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip, the moment of political Zionism’s disintegration, and the prospect of an Israeli Jewish civil war, may well be at hand. Read more [...]
Pete Gregson, Chair, One Democratic Read more [...]
Stuart Littlewood provides some of the context missing from most Western mainstream media reports of the killing of three British colonists in the illegally occupied Palestinian West Bank, including land theft, murders and other acts of violence by Jewish colonists and the Israeli army. Read more [...]
Stuart Littlewood highlights the futility of talking to the duplicitous Israeli apartheid state and its 'bitch', the United States, about peace or de-escalation, as evidenced by Netanyahu's instant reneging on agreements reached at Aqaba. Read more [...]