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Maybe Keir remembered he’s a human rights lawyer?
Assessing Labour’s week of Palestine policy
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Culture
Censoring anti-Zionist art isn’t free speech
If it’s diverse perspectives the Board of Deputies wants, they’ll have to accept anti-Zionist art.
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Peering into the post-election puddle
What does the pro-Israel right make of the results? And what’s the road ahead for the Jewish left?
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A new season
On electoral ambivalence.
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Labour is winning back Jewish voters, but at what cost?
An anti-racism that is selective is no anti-racism at all.
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The condition of being hostage
Who counts as a hostage, and what does it mean to be one?
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Campus Dispatch II
It is the end of term at the University of Oxford, but the university’s Palestine solidarity encampment operates on a different timeline.
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Kapos and coconuts
The strange history of an intra-racial slur.
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We Are Not Numbers: Refusing Gaza’s dehumanisation
An exhibition reminds us that with every Palestinian life lost, there were mothers who cooked, students who learned and children who swam.
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Live from the Oxford encampment
"We camp to show the world that we will not accept business as usual."
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‘People are really fired up and angry’: Resisting the Rwanda plan
Vashti speaks to activists fighting detentions, deportations, and the wider “hostile environment”.
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The expropriation playbook: Offshore finance and the Israeli settler movement
Through a British legacy of financial secrecy, the Israeli settler movement has a way to avoid international regulation and sanction.