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Alternative Jewish Voices has been thinking about that phrase, 'from the river to the sea.' Several weeks ago, Wellington had a series of big, many-lingual demonstrations seeking justice and safety for Palestinians. One was on the steps ...

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Israel’s Never-Ending War Against Palestinian Health Between all the headline-rattling periods of military violence, Israel’s policies toward Gaza keep its residents in a continual state of suffering. Said Khatib/Getty Images In the aftermath of a delicate ceasefire coming on the heels of ten days of Israeli airstrikes that killed some 230 Palestinians, Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure has weathered serious damage: Bombs hit 17 hospitals and clinics, interrupted importation of medical sup...

Author Palestinian protester on the border between Gaza and Israel. August 30, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatb / Shutterstock The past several years have seen a chorus of demands for decolonization coming from various movements, giving new life to the term. The challenge to colonial power structures today ranges from contestation over public monuments, museums and school curricula, to the struggles for the recognition and reclamation of the stolen lands on which many modern capitalist power ...

Protest banner in London, 2018. (Photo: Jewish Voice For Labour (UK) via The Palestine Poster Project Archives) I don’t want antisemitism to be misunderstood. I don’t want Jews, Zionism and Israel to be conflated. I don’t want to be perceived as supporting an oppressive and undemocratic State, just because I’m Jewish. I don’t want to be associated with a one-dimensional interpretation of Zionism which denies another people their history and identity. I don’t want the definiti...

February 24, 2021 at 10:39 am As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important for organising political uprisings and opposition movements. In response, several of the continents regimes have shut down the internet or blocked social media apps. To sidestep the economic costs and global criticism that these online shutdowns incur, governments have turned to digital surveillance technology as a shrewder way to crush all oppo...

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by Jeff Halper (Pluto Press, £14.99) THE IDEA of a single democratic state as a political solution for Palestine is nothing new. It was the policy of the Palestinian liberation movement, enshrined in the PLO Charter and only abandoned by the PLO in 1988 in favour of the two-state solution. In this book Jeff Halper, a founder member of the recently established  One Democratic State campaign, argues that Israel never intended the two-state solution to be a solution at all — instead, it was em...