The Israeli NGO B’tselem has been collecting testimonies from Gaza. This is from ‘Issam Da’ur, a general practitioner at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. His young son was killed a week after his birthday.
Seyla Benhabib, an American academic of Turkish origin, wrote this response to another open letter signed by many academics, mostly in the USA. It objects to how the letter sees "the conflict in Israel-Palestine through the lens of 'settler-colonialism' alone" ... eliding "the historical evolution of both peoples."
"Most people capable of critical thought will surely understand that the reference to Netanyahu is his government and the political project he represents, not to Israel as a nation."
"The Gaza demonstrations are heterogeneous. They have drawn hundreds of thousands rightly appalled at Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians, but with diverse views beyond that."
"We’ve repeatedly asserted in Solidarity that Israel has a right to defend itself. It needs to be asserted. Right now, on the left especially, it doesn’t go without saying."
Workers’ Liberty wants to see the largest possible presence on the streets,demonstrating for ceasefire, peace, and equal rights in a conscious way. That means intervening in the current protests with a distinct political message.
“My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza”, reads a placard held by a Jewish woman in Mexico. Politicians in Israel and internationally have invoked the memory of the Holocaust to justify the collective punishment of Gaza. The placard-makers' framing is not only misjudged but risks bolstering antisemitism.
The “Neither Netanyahu, nor Hamas” headline we had last week was wrong. The idea with the headline was to signal opposition to the horrors against Gaza’s people. But it wasn’t clear.
FOA, established in Leicester in 1997, is a spin-off loose affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), one of the world’s oldest political-Islamist groups, Egypt-founded but global.
Israeli politics has swung to the right since the assassination in 1995 of Yitzhak Rabin, a former nationalist hardliner who had been negotiating with the Palestinians. Palestinian politics has swung to the right, too, with the two swings forming a vicious spiral.
Videos propagating false information about the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria are a regular occurrence; now one related to the war in Gaza is circulating.
The potential for a shared future, represented in embryo by the Arab-Jewish movement Standing Together, is the democratic alternative to both Netanyahu and Hamas: an equal right for Palestinians and Israeli Jews to peace, security, and self-determination.
The below statement was published in the name of multiple Jewish, Arab, and cross-communal organisations in Israel/Palestine, including the left-wing political party Hadash.
The problem is "from the river to the sea" is that both peoples will remain in Israel-Palestine and that is the only starting point to any solution. It does not help to the end the occupation, to achieve peace or the end the killing of innocent people, to ignore this.
Socialist Worker's repeated statements of support for Hamas is aimed at presenting an image of being the most militant “anti-imperialists” in the hope of recruiting people who are appalled by Israel’s horrific actions in Gaza.
"I’m sure that most of the people who have been demonstrating ... think that calling for a ceasefire is the same thing as calling for peace. It is not. It is what Hamas wants — a lull in the fighting, a chance to survive for another day and to prepare for the next war."
To try to reverse the bad effects of Jewish migration to Israel-Palestine by expelling or subjugating is neither possible nor just. The only way forwards is self-determination and equal rights for all.
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