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Israel & Palestine Israel & Palestine Jewish Culture Review

Can film unteach Hasbara?

A new documentary, screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival this week, considers whether exposure to video footage of the plight of Palestinians can change the hearts and minds of Israel’s fiercest advocates.

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Israel & Palestine Israel & Palestine Report The Jewish Left

“Resist”: The political street art of Jerusalem

A reading of the politics written onto the city walls.

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Israel & Palestine Opinion UK

If Black lives matter to us, Palestinian lives should too

George Floyd and Eyad Hallaq were killed in the same week. The British Jewish press has spilt much ink on the former – and barely a drop on the latter.

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Israel & Palestine Israel & Palestine Report

Water, water everywhere

A contest over a spring exposes Israel’s water apartheid.

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Israel & Palestine Israel & Palestine Opinion

Israel is in denial about police brutality

Israeli politicians have expressed remorse at Eyad Hallaq’s killing, however it’s clear they view it as an aberration.

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Israel & Palestine Opinion UK

The Board of Deputies’ neutrality on annexation will doom it

The Board gained prominence through its forthright stance on Labour antisemitism. Its mealy-mouthed response to annexation will condemn it to irrelevance.

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Israel & Palestine Opinion USA

Trump’s peace plan won’t just entrench the Israel-Palestine conflict – it will radically destabilise it

By mainstreaming the fantasies of the annexationist hard-right, this plan paves the way for an escalation of unforeseeable proportions.

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Israel & Palestine Opinion UK

Boris Johnson’s BDS ban must be opposed – not least by British Jews

The law would forbid even boycotts focused solely on the occupation, thereby framing opposition to the occupation as opposition to Israel as a whole.