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Read our name as Jewish Voice for Labour AS IT SHOULD BE NOT Jewish Voice for STARMERLABOUR
It's almost two years since we posted this poem on our blog and it is time to remind readers of it with apologies for making you cry
03.08.2025 19:24 β π 19 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0the Party. That 700,000 have signed up in support or at least for more information, is a sign that there is a real interest in a different sort of politics. Zarah Sultana, Jeremy Corbyn and others are wanting to build from the bottom up; looking, for example at a possible federated structure.
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The mainstream is going into a tailspin about 'Your Party' and demanding answers, for example about leadership, demanding easy answers. But what may be considered, at this stage, a "lack of clarity" is a reason for excitement because it means all can be part of shaping
https://is.gd/fKZe3y
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Israel closes 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse without charges
Action on Armed Violence says Israel is creating a βpattern of impunityβ
We have looked closely at ourselves and concluded we are not to blame for anything - https://is.gd/VKvTHP go away and stop bothering us
#MostMoralArmy
The report said parliamentarians βare more likely to use humanising terms when talking about Ukrainiansβ β such as βguestβ, βbraveβ, βcommunityβ or βdiasporaβ but negative terms when reporting on asylum seekers and refugees from elsewhere
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A report from the Runnymede Trust highlights how language used by politicians and media about race and immigration shapes βthe increase in reactionary politics and backlash against antiracism" emboldening the far right in this country
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/70655/
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occupation or starvation. Even so Starmer has drawn the fury of Israelβs leaders and disdain from Trump. Given how βappalledβ he is by what he is (now) seeing, he should take the action that is needed, sanction Israel and make a difference The genocide and 77 years of injustice must end
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This article by the Deputy Director of PSC highlights the need for sanctions to stop the genocide. Starmerβs half decision to recognise Palestine is something he has been pressured into by Labour MPs but more by the mood in the country It will not end Israelβs genocide,
https://is.gd/BkoKn3
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Ayana Gerstmann, 18-years-old, refused yesterday to enlist in the IOF and sentenced top 30 days in the military prison.
Ayana is a citizen of an Israel that is crushed by the supremacist Zionism of Netanyahu and his far right backers and endorsed by most of Israel's Jewish citizens
is.gd/c4xyLb
Trump is coming to the UK. Pledge to join the protests stoptrump.org.uk
#DonaldTrumpNotWelcomeHere
Peter Beinart offers a message to Rabbis as they contemplate what to say on the High Holy Days
He cites experience when one Liberal Rabbi who opposed the apartheid regime was forced to quit Are todayβs Rabbis frightened of their congregations' anger?
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/a-me...
since the Arab spring, since the climate crisis that is clearly already upon us, the rulers of the world are preparing.
The genocide is not separate from these things but goes in locks step with a pervasive new cruelty towards the weak and needy.
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The authors ask the question that has puzzled us all: why on earth has the world not stopped the genocide.
By placing it in a global context, they suggest a plausible answer.
Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, since the austerity imposed thereafter,
https://is.gd/UE36Sy
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We on the left need to claim (reclaim?) free speech as our issue We must not cede it to the right who make a big deal of it until it comes to free speech on Israel. Are we any better on the left? Do we also want to suppress free speech that we do not agree with?
worldisnotenough.org/2025/07/29/f...
A crack in the wall of support for Zionism
In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel
26 Democrats joined Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present.
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
Massive support for Miriam Margolyes as pro-Israel lobby tries to cancel her
Miriam isnβt afraid of speaking the truth. And amid the ongoing horrors of Israelβs genocide against Palestinians, the Jewish actress has invoked the wrath of Zionist genocide-supporters
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
After Awdah Hathaleen was shot and killed by a settler on Monday, the army is demanding that his family agree to certain conditions for his funeral as a precondition for the body's release, including no mourning tent and limiting participants to 15
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It seem that every day Israel finds a new way to exhibit its inhumanity
Israeli Authorities Refuse to Release Body of Palestinian Killed by Settler in West Bank
https://archive.ph/irJw3
@haaretzcom.bsky.social
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We think of places with no judiciary, certainly not one that is independent and guided by a professional ethos.
And now, in recent months in the West Bank, I stare straight into the eyes of raw, brutal, arbitrary power.
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by legal institutions that restrain it. When we think of this we picture distant countries and past eras. We imagine the feudal lord evicting a vassal on a whim; the king who seizes a poor manβs only lamb; the single-party official who, with a wink, has his annoying neighbor arrested.
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Michael Sfard, Israel human rights lawyer wrote
I have never felt as helpless as I do these days.
As law students we learn in law school about the dangers of arbitrary power β power that is unchecked, not constrained by legal norms, not subject to control
is.gd/brwK6S
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There's still time to sponsor Mike to cycle in the Big Ride 4 Palestine to raise funds for Gaza Sunbirds on 9 August
If you have already then I am very grateful.They are well worth supporting. Israel's barbaric assault on Gaza means there will be far more para-athletes needing support
is.gd/mPyC3k
We will announce the Jewish Bloc assembly point when the march route is fixed
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More heel dragging from Starmer. We need a ceasefire but failure to get one must not be a necessary condition for recognition
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
UK will recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to Gaza ceasefire and other conditions
βMy inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.β
βHow,β asks Bartov, βwill Israelβs future be affected by the inevitable demolition of its incontestable morality, derived from its birth in the ashes of the Holocaust?β
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Dr. Omer Bartov is a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
From someone who did not think that Israeli action in the period after October 7 amounted to genocide, the evidence has forced Bartov to change his mind.
is.gd/SNdVZN
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As images from Gaza spread, US rabbis wrestle with warβs morality from the pulpit
More than a thousand rabbis have signed a public letter demanding Israel stop βusing starvation as a weapon of warβ
forward.com/fast-forward...
The attack on Monday was captured on video, which appears to show an Israeli settler, Yinon Levi, who was put under sanctions by the US president, Joe Biden, then removed from the sanctions list by Donald Trump, firing his gun wildly at the time of the killing
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Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills.
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www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Join us outside Westminster Magistrates Court as we stand in solidarity Stop the War chair Alex Kenny and CND general secretary Sophie Bolt as they face charges for peacefully protesting for Palestine.
ποΈ Thursday 31 July
9am SHARP
Marylebone Road, NW1 5BR (tubes Marylebone/Baker St/Edgware Road
