Do I think it’s ok to ambush Jeremy Corbyn in the street when he was about to speak at a pro-Palestine rally to ask if he is anti-Zionist? No, I don’t. It was too reminiscent of the many times the media did the same when he was Labour leader; the Continue Reading
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Film Review: No Other Land
No Other Land won the best documentary at this year’s Oscars. This follows many other awards globally, including at the Berlin film festival where it won the Berlinale documentary award. The film is hard to watch even if we know the story it is telling us. From its opening scenes Continue Reading
Israel’s Agenda: ethnic cleansing and regional hegemony
This is an edited version of the talk given by Moshé Machover to the regular TAS fortnightly Zoom discussion on Monday 10 March 2025. The full discussion can be watched here. I am going to address the cardinal aims of the Israeli state. In fact, they are the long-term aims Continue Reading
A Communist position on the Middle East colonial conflict
This article is based on the talk that Moshé Machover gave to a Zoom meeting organised by Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view on 25 November 2024, addressing the question: What is a communist position for resolving the colonial conflict in the Middle East? You can watch the Continue Reading
Might is Right
Not content with bombing refugee camps, hospitals and homes, shooting children and burning people alive in Northern Gaza, or with bombing non-combatant civilians in Lebanon, Israel is also now revealed as having targeted UN peace-keeping forces. Israel is completely unaccountable because it knows that, whatever it does, it will always Continue Reading
Circle of evil – how the lessons of the past are not learned.
A review of Zone of Interest, Director Jonathan Glazer, by Janet Sillett.* ‘Unforgettable’, ‘haunting’, ‘chilling’: The Zone of Interest, which won this year’s Oscar for Best Inernational Feature Film, is all of these. Its ability to shock is more about what it doesn’t show but in what we hear, imagine Continue Reading
Yemen: Towards the Abyss
This article is based on the notes for an introduction given by Chris on 22 January which, along with the discussion afterwards, can be watched on YouTube: ‘Yemen: Towards the Abyss’ Nothing quite demonstrates the British government’s alleged commitment to containing the growing war in the Levant like slavishly following Continue Reading
Sunak, Shapps and Starmer beat the war drum
In a speech delivered at Lancaster House in London on Monday 15 January 2024, titled Defending Britain from a more dangerous world, UK Defence Minister Grant Shapps evoked the spirit of previous war-mongering Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to prepare the British public for war. War on many fronts. War that will Continue Reading
Palestine: The political background to Israel’s war on Gaza
This article is an edited version of a talk given by Moshé Machover to a ‘Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view’ online discussion on the subject, on Monday 13 November 2023. I will place present events in their historical context. As the General Secretary of the United Nations said, these events are Continue Reading
The Breaking of Bread and Catastrophe: Two poems on Gaza
The breaking of bread by Janet Sillett Families queuing for round flat loaveseach morning before dawn the struggle for bread Sharq Bakery in Gaza City bombed late October 2023in the doorway blood mixes with flour the smell of baking lingering in the space that is left I recall Jewish black bread, caraway Continue Reading