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Standing Together has criticised the choice of prisoners exchanged with hostages by the Israeli government on the grounds that many exchanged are Palestinians, mostly under 18 and many of them citizens of Israel, held with no conviction. By including these prisoners in the exchange, Standing Together argues that this “deepens efforts to criminalise Palestinian citizens, gives Hamas more power over the lives of Palestinians in Israel, and sets a dangerous precedent”. It reports that detainees’ lawyers were against the deal.

It is now almost eight weeks since Hamas perpetrated horrific attacks, including murders, kidnappings, and sexual violence, on innocent Israeli civilians of all ages from the very young to the very old. In the week after the attack, someone sent me a moving blog meant to help the wider community understand our trauma with a […]

I am glad that I encountered this tradition of vigorous nonviolent struggle back when I was in the grip of that murderous rage. It convinced me that I could

How can the political reality in Israel/Palestine be changed? And how can those, like us, many thousands of miles distant from the territory, best contribute to struggles for that change? Workers’ Liberty agrees with those Palestinians and Israelis who stress the irreplaceable role of pressure from grassroots social movements organising on a binational basis, aiming to win equal rights for both peoples.

( Tomdispatch.com) - When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best …