For the past 69 weeks, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) has been peacefully protesting Israel’s Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, near her Swiss Cottage residency for her incitement of genocide against Palestinians. However, on the night of 27 February, the police-imposed conditions to move the picket from Swiss Cottage to […]
Workers
Holding various jobs, but suffering work harassment
Fausto*, an immigrant who arrived in the UK several years ago, is holding various jobs to try to get ahead for his family. However, in one of these he tells us that he is suffering from ‘Work harassment’. The situations that Fausto encounters in his 3 jobs are each […]
Students arrested after pro-Palestine occupation at Attenborough Tower
The occupation followed a similar protest at the university’s engineering building the week before. Rhys Everquill / Leicester Gazette* Eleven people, including students, were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest occupation at Attenborough Tower on Friday, 15 November. According to Leicestershire Police, “the people reportedly refused to leave” before […]
In search of people and place
“I just want the Palestinian and Israeli people to live in peace.” Simon Collings from Renton grew up in the Vale, however his birthplace was many thousands of miles away in Jerusalem. Charlie Sherry / Clydersider Magazin* Born in 1979, he was adopted by a couple from Renton […]
“Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now Then* This panel was organised to discuss the conditional solidarity which has meant that Western journalists have been a complicit audience watching Israel target and kill Palestinian journalists […]