Israel / Palestine

[Ian H]

Combatants for Peace has been best known over the last few years for its joint Memorial Day ceremony, hosted along with Parents Circle – Families Forum, where Israelis and Palestinians come together to mourn loved ones lost to the conflict. Due to the restrictions on Palestinians' entry into Israel, the event has been held in recent years in separate venues, livestreamed to each other. They hold a similar, and similarly novel, ceremony to commemorate Nakba Day.

The group also coordinates non-violent protests and participates in direct action, providing protective presence to Palestinians from settler attacks. In April, its Israeli and Palestinian activists were fired on by a settler in Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem.
[Haaretz]

 

[C R]

Not very good news from the Eisenkot camp. Despite the Arab parties offering support, Eisenkot seems more interested in dealing with the loony end of the jewish parties.

As a representative of one of the Arab parties said on the BBC the other day, there will be a racist genocidal government or a racist apartheid government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/08/gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-allies-form-israel-government

 

[Pblakeney]

Not very good news from the Eisenkot camp. Despite the Arab parties offering support, Eisenkot seems more interested in dealing with the loony end of the jewish parties.

As a representative of one of the Arab parties said on the BBC the other day, there will be a racist genocidal government or a racist apartheid government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/08/gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-allies-form-israel-government

I do not hold high hopes of improvement.

 

[C R]

I do not hold high hopes of improvement.

It is apparent to anyone with eyes that zionism  is racist.

 

[Ian H]

Gaza has been experiencing an old-fashioned scorched-earth campaign reminiscent of the Nakba of 1948 and no different from the settler-colonial genocides of previous centuries. Much of it was carried out by artillery, tanks, sappers and bulldozers. The aerial campaign was so intense – the most intense on record – that its effects could equally have been achieved by carpet-bombing. [Eyal Weizman, LRB]

 

[Pblakeney]

It is apparent to anyone with eyes that zionism  is racist.

I cannot help but disagree with that statement, even if I agree with the point you are trying to make.
A religion is not a race. Zionism is religious discrimination.
Well, that’s my definition.

 

[C R]

I cannot help but disagree with that statement, even if I agree with the point you are trying to make.
A religion is not a race. Zionism is religious discrimination.
Well, that’s my definition.

Semantics.

 

[Pblakeney]

Semantics.

Semantics tend to be really important when it comes to race and religion.