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Former B’Tselem board member Vivian Silver confirmed among those killed during the 7 October attack on Beeri
Vivian Silver founded and worked on several initiatives bringing Jewish Israelis and Palestinians together (social media)
Tributes have been pouring in following the news that (...)
The Gazan scholar and activist, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, believed in the radical potential of solidarity.
Khalil at the sea with his daughter.
“כי הוו מיפטרי מהדדי, אמר ליה: ליברכן מר. אמר ליה: אמשול לך משל, למה הדבר דומה? לאדם שהיה הולך במדבר והיה רעב ועיף וצמא, (...)
ESSF publishes this statement as part of our coverage of Palestinian and Israeli reactions to the current crisis. We do not share the Da’am Party’s assessment of the role of the US and the Biden leadership of a suposed democratic bloc. However, our readers may be interested in their analysis of the increasingly right wing Israeli regime.
On October 7, the Hamas organization committed crimes against humanity, (...)
Sixty years after co-founding the radical leftist group Matzpen, Moshé Machover reflects on the organization’s enduring legacy, the internal splits that led to its demise, and its lessons for today’s anti-Zionist left.
Moshé Machover is anxious to set the record straight. “There’s been a (...)
Two Israelis of the same generation passed away last week: Meron Benvenisti and Reuven Kaminer. I know both, but only Reuven was a friend, a comrade. Benvenisti was a politician, a dignitary. As deputy mayor of Jerusalem, he was architect of the annexation of East Jerusalem, with everything (...)
Born in 1953 to immigrants from the United States who had joined the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), Noam Kaminer was a stalwart of the Israeli radical left until his untimely death in 2014. His political way-stations, including the joint Arab-Jewish student group CAMPUS, the Israeli (...)
Activists who leave the battle are not weaklings, but also not heroes.
To be clear: I don’t judge anyone who decides to leave the country and reside abroad. This is a personal decision, just like the decision to keep religious commandments, be vegetarian or, as strange as it might seem, to (...)
As the Zionist left struggles to stay relevant, some members of Meretz are proposing a new way forward.
Top members of the Zionist left-wing Meretz party are trying to transform their party into one based on full Jewish-Arab partnership, just a month after it passed the election threshold (...)
‘Peacenik’ is widely used as a slur in Israel. Here four campaigners explain their demise and why they hold on
It’s a sad-looking protest. A few dozen members of Israel’s beleaguered peace movement mill around on a road in east Jerusalem, holding signs in Arabic, English and Hebrew (...)
Adam Keller, who spent 50 years working alongside Uri Avnery, remembers the man who hoped for a warm embrace between an Israeli and a Palestinian president.
Uri Avnery (Yossi Gurvitz)
How to sum up in a few words 50 years of political partnership, which was also an intimate friendship, (...)
A renowned Israeli anti-Zionist was expelled from Labour on Tuesday, as the party bureaucracy falsely accused him of anti-Semitism.
The 81-year-old retired professor was expelled from Labour outright with no hearing. (TeleSUR)
Retired philosophy professor Moshé Machover told The Electronic (...)
The aim of this article is to pinpoint the explicit and implicit support of the Zionist Left intellectuals usually identified with Labor or Meretz for the brutal attacks on Gaza since 2006. This support is a new stage in the Left intellectuals’ loyalty to the state and its oppressive policies (...)
IN December 1942, when I was 13 years old, German troops occupied my hometown. Within days, our house was commandeered as an officers’ mess hall. I soon had a yellow star on my dress, setting me apart from many of my childhood friends. The men of our family were ordered into forced labor. My (...)
Laura Durkay pays tribute to the life of an International Solidarity Movement activist.
PALESTINIANS AND international solidarity activists around the world reacted with shock and sorrow last week as the news spread that 36-year-old Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, a long-time volunteer (...)
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT & FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
ISM confirms the death of Vittorio Arrigoni
For Immediate Release
(April 14, 2001) – Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped by (...)
In 2006, the new Freedom Theatre [[http://www.thefreedomtheatre.org] in Jenin Refugee Camp held an art competition.
“Don’t just go for the tanks,” Juliano Mer-Khamis, the co-founder of the theater, told the children-artists. “Hope. Where is the hope?”
A 12-year-old girl named Wafaa (...)
As the controversial 443 highway, which connects Tel Aviv with Jerusalem by passing through the West Bank, begins to curve toward Israel’s capital, the eye is inevitably drawn to an imposing gray structure with massive concrete walls, part of the Ofer Military Prison. Commuters are barely (...)
Communist Party of Israel
The Popular Uprising The Arab peoples’ historical breakthrough
Decisions of the 13th session of the Central Committee February 19, 2011
The Central Committee of CPI salutes the mass popular movement for democracy and a dignified existence, which marks a (...)
Olivier Besancenot, leader of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) and 2007 presidential candidate in France, visited the Alternative Information Center (AIC) on 19 April and met with Israeli and Palestinian social justice activists. Besancenot and a delegation of French political (...)
Numerous people wished to commemorate the life of Saadia Marziano , founder of the Black Panthers movement in Israel, who died last week. However, their speeches were mostly garbled and lacking in content. This is a shame.
In contrast to the majority of those commemorating him, Saadia wrote (...)
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