Luke Hodgkin, 1938-2020
Son of Nobel laureate and radical historian who forged his own path as a mathematician and activist remembered
Category: Columns
Members of the European Parliament call on the EU to ban trade with illegal settlements
A group of 46 Members of the European Parliament sent a letter to EC Vice-President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis asking to “send a WTO-compatible proposal to the European Parliament….
Legitimising Ariel University further marginalises Palestinian rights
The US’ announcement that it now regards Israeli settlements as consistent with international law does not make them so, say eight senior academics
Moshe Machover suspended – he has issued a public response
JVL Introduction Readers will recall that Moshe Machover was briefly expelled from the Labour Party in autumn 2017 under the old, discredited Iain Nichol regime. He has just been suspended….
Statement from 400+ Current UK Students on IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
If you are a current UK student, and would like to add your name to the letter, you can do so here.
For the Jewish state, the Holocaust is a tool to be manipulated
Something remarkable happened within the same week that an internal Israeli government committee approved the appointment of Effi Eitam, a former IDF general and far-right politician, as chairperson of Yad….
From Israeli citizens – We denounce the Festival du Cinéma Israélien in Paris and the whitewashing of Israeli apartheid
November 2020 Dear organizers We represent one thousand citizens of Israel, who are active against our government’s violations of international law and human rights against the indigenous Palestinian people [1]…..
Call for a boycott of Israeli products: when the French Ministry of Justice refuses to distinguish between products and men
By Nicolas Boeglin, Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Costa Rica, and Ghislain Poissonnier, magistrate.
The growing targeting of Palestinian students: An interview with LPHR
Last month, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention about the ongoing Israeli military detention of three female Birzeit students. LPHR Director, Tareq Shrourou spoke to us about the case.