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Labour’s Obligation to Peace Between Israel and Palestine Starts by Rejecting the IHRA Examples

Aaron Bastani

It is not an opinion to say Israel was founded on violence, racism and ethnic cleansing - it is a historic fact. The Labour party’s proposed code of conduct on antisemitism should be refined, not discarded, argues Aaron Bastani.

Novara Live: A Row With No End? Labour, Israel and Antisemitism

Michael is joined by Barnaby Raine to discuss the latest iteration of Labour’s “antisemitism row”. The show will feature a video link with Norman Finkelstein speaking from New York.

Long Read: How Labour’s Dreadful Antisemitism Debate Has to Change

Barnaby Raine

The standard of debate around Labour’s antisemitism saga has been dire from the start, and both Corbyn's critics and his supporters on the left have been to blame, argues Barnaby Raine in this Sunday’s Long Read.

Explainers: The UK Is Complicit in Israel’s Violence

On Monday the 14th of May the Israeli military killed 60 Palestinians and injured 2771. Dr David Wearing explains how this violence to a significant extent belongs to Britain as well.

Airstrikes on Syria Show the Hypocrisy at the Heart of Britain’s Foreign Policy

Aaron Bastani

Theresa May can’t claim that striking weapons facilities in Syria is tantamount to humanitarian intervention while cosying up to some of the world’s most oppressive autocracies, argues Aaron Bastani.

The Land Day Killings Show Palestinians Have Never Had the Right to Protest

Alia Al Ghussain

Last Friday Israeli forces launched brutal attacks on protesters in Gaza which killed 18 people. This disproportionate response is part of a pattern of excessively punishing Palestinian protest, argues Alia Al Ghussain.

Long Read: The Balfour Declaration Kickstarted 100 Years of Dispossession for Arabs and Palestinians

Emmanuel Bennett

100 years after the Balfour Declaration, Israel continues to pass laws to dismantle democracy and dispossess Arabs and Palestinians.

Lowkey: Make It Right for Palestine

Lowkey: “it’s incumbent upon us at this time to mobilize in as large a way as possible.” #Balfour100 #MakeItRight bit.ly/2urPiqX

Unity and Hope: The Story of Palestine’s Hunger Strikers

Anonymous

Could mobilisations around the hunger striking prisoners signify a new dawn of Palestinian politics?

You can be a ‘liberal democracy’, or you can ban boycotts – not both

Thomas Seal

The Conservatives' boycott ban shows Britain’s values are all relative once our exports are threatened, says Thomas Seal.

Arts Strike Now! 5 Reasons Cultural Workers are Boycotting the Zabludowicz Collection

BDZ Group

Amid the erosion of public arts funding, the private Zabludowicz Collection has stepped up as the post-austerity arts pathbreaker. Notorious for its complicity in Israeli militarism, it is now the target of a boycott by cultural workers.

6 Misconceptions About the Iran Nuclear Deal

JT White

The deal on Iran’s nuclear programme has the potential to break with the tensions of the past. Yet the deal was made on wrongheaded assumptions about Iran. To this day we still view the country through a prism of falsehoods.

#StopArmingIsrael: 6 Reasons to Block the Factory

Sean O'Reilly

Today more than 20 activist groups are converging on a drone factory north of Birmingham to mark the anniversary of Gaza's bombardment by Israel during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

3 Things You Need to Know About the Israeli Elections and the Palestinians

Alia Al Ghussain

Netanyahu's Likud party has won the Knesset elections, confirming the Israeli PM for a fourth term. While Israel's allies laud the latest elections in 'only democracy in the Middle East', the media narrative belies the systematic disenfranchisement of Palestinians who will be negatively impacted by the results.

The Fuel That Fuels the Rage: 3 Key Gazan Resources Israel is Clinging Onto

Eleanor Penny

The biggest threat to Israel is not the Qassam Brigades' rockets. Beneath the regular media briefings on Hamas and its 'terror tunnels' is a fear that reveals the nature of Israel's occupation of Palestine: Palestinian independence would mean self-determination over its resources. These resources are what Israel depends on to sustain itself against the Palestinian resistance, and cut to the heart of its military strategy.

A Diary Entry from Palestine: why we don’t need ‘balance’

Alia Al Ghussain

As bombs drop on Gaza and revenge killings wreak collective punishment in the West Bank, many in the west have called for less emotion and more balance. Writing from Ramallah in the West Bank, Novara contributor Alia Al Ghussain argues this approach serves only to obfuscate the reality of the situation.

Novara FM: ‘The Invention of The Land of Israel’ – In Conversation With Shlomo Sand

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler are joined by author and academic Shlomo Sand as they discuss his new book 'The Invention of the Land of Israel'.

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