Israel/Palestine

See our publications on Israel/Palestine, and articles on fighting left antisemitism.

General Strike in Israel

The Histradut union has called a general strike over the government’s failure to pay almost 3,500 workers over the past months. Meanwhile, government is blaming local authorities for not following efficiency programmes initiated after the last such disputes. About 400,000 workers went on strike from 9am this morning. For more information see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6473681.stm http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-20-israel-strike_N.htm

General strike in Israel

Israel is paralysed by a general strike by public sector workers over unpaid wages. Latest reports are that the government is giving way, and the strike will end soon. So much, however, for the idea that Israel is a monolithic "Zionist", "racist", "imperialist" bloc, with no class struggle within it worth mentioning...

A secular-democratic state

By Jim Higgins It is always a pleasure to see Sean Matgamna in full spate and my enjoyment of his piece, “Paul Foot, philo-semite” (WL 32), was abated only by the fear that the might do himself a serious mischief, carrying that immense weight of heavy irony. What a spiffing wheeze, Sean must have though, to belabour Footie with Hilaire Belloc, because one thing is sure, whatever Foot’s prejudices may happen to be, Belloc was a brass-bound and copper-bottomed anti-semite, the author of the lines: “How odd of God, to choose the Jews.” Now I have not read, and I hope I do not have to do so, the...

The Olmert-Abbas Meeting: New Moves in the Middle East?

Editorial in current "Solidarity" In 2003 George Bush talked of a worldwide drive by the USA to erect bourgeois democracy and American-style capitalism across the globe, wherever "dictatorial" and heavily state-regulated economies existed. He saw no limits to US power, no insuperable obstacles to an American-engineered transformation of the globe into more or less developed replicas of itself. When the US invaded Iraq Bush abandoned all the considerations which a dozen years before had held the US back from occupying Iraq and dismantling the Iraqi state machine: the fear that Iraq, which...

Middle East politics after the Lebanon war

By John O’Mahony A. For socialists in Britain, what are the most important political issues in relation to the situation in the Middle East after the Israeli-Hizbullah war? B. • To oppose any American-British attack on Iran. • To give solidarity to the beleagured Iraqi workers’ movement, and those fighting for secularism and women’s rights in Iraq. • To reject and oppose both Jewish and Arab chauvinist approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. • To oppose and fight the Islamophobia that threatens all Muslims, and those who “look like” Muslims, with victimisation by the state and by...

An open letter to a demonstrator against the war on Lebanon

Stop the slaughter! Israel out of Lebanon! Stop rocket attacks on Israeli civilians! This is a demonstration against Israel and the USA. We are together here because we oppose the policy and "strategy" of Bush and Blair... most of the ideas and more or less all of the policies advocated by the leaders of the ‘Stop the War Coalition’ make no sense... You hold to some or all of the following ideas. Comrade, This is a demonstration against Israel and the USA. We are together here because we oppose the policy and "strategy" of Bush and Blair, and because we share all or most of the following...

Video - Palestinian Prime Minister Haniya on Oct 6th

MEMRI may have a suspect agenda with its founders and I don't imagine they should be expected to give a balanced account of politics in the Arab world.
Nevertheless they compile many videos, largely broadcasted on Al-Jazeera, worth looking at. See links in this blog entry. You will probably need a...

Engagement - Not Bans and Boycotts

Engage was set up to campaign for links rather than boycotts as a way of supporting justice in Israel/Palestine. It initially concentrated its efforts on opposing the call for an academic boycott of Israel, but is now campaigning against the Israeli government's outrageous imposition of a ban on...

An exchange with the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign

An attempt by AWL and Committee for 2 states to explore possibilities for joint work between the PSC and the Comm for 2 States are rebuffed. Why? Well read on.

This is the letter of reply by myself to the local PSC answering their reasons for not wishing to explore joint work. The PSC's...

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