Category Archives: Middle East
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What Now after Israel’s Election? A Conversation with Haggai Matar, 7 November
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2019 by IJV
Haggai Matar, editor of the radical Israeli +972 media organisation, will speak about the fall-out from the recent elections at …
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IJV Statement on BDS and Responsible Investment Campaigns
Leave a commentJune 14, 2019 by IJV
Since the launch of Independent Jewish Voices in 2007, the prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine have progressively diminished …
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Stop the Murders in Gaza
Leave a commentApril 6, 2018 by IJV
Independent Jewish Voices is horrified by the killing today (Friday 6 April) by Israeli military forces of at least …
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Public Meeting: Where Are We Headed in Israel/Palestine? With Jeff Halper (ICAHD), 18 Feb.
Leave a commentFebruary 7, 2018 by IJV
Sunday 18th February, 7:30pm Wilberforce Room, Wesley Hotel 81-103 Euston Street NW1 2EZ (nearest Tube station: Euston) Please join us …
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Independent Jewish Voices: 100 Years After Balfour
Leave a commentOctober 9, 2017 by IJV
On 2 November 1917, a letter from the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour was transmitted to the Zionist Federation, promising British …
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Audio of #ERFA2015 now available
1March 22, 2015 by IJV
IJV would like to thank all our participants for contributing to a frank and profoundly radical discussion on how to …
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Resisting Despair
Leave a commentFebruary 20, 2015 by IJV
Despair, surely, is what Israeli policy has been resolutely instilling in Palestinians from the beginning. It is pointless to resist! Abandon any dreams of justice and sovereignty. This is why, for many Palestinians, resistance is simply about surviving. It is what Eyad himself emphasized, observing ‘the long path of humiliation and despair’ that lies behind the creation of a so-called ‘terrorist’: ‘the struggle of many Palestinians is how not to become suicide bombers’, he wrote thirteen years ago. [3] He tirelessly sought to prevent such destructive martyrdom, standing implacably against all forms of violence, whether from Palestinians or the infinitely deadlier modes of Israeli state violence: that ‘eye for eyelash’, as Schlaim put it. Eyad liked to insist that the Israelis and Palestinians needed each other: ‘for only the Palestinians can release Israel from its moral guilt, from all that has gone wrong since those first Zionist dreams to the nightmare of living in a country permanently at war with its neighbours; while only the Israelis can negotiate a just peace with Palestine, allowing them control over their own affairs and thereby laying the basis for security, freedom and dignity for both sides’.[4]
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IJV announces “Equal Rights for All: a new path for Israel/Palestine?” 2-day International Conference
Leave a commentFebruary 13, 2015 by IJV
Independent Jewish Voices is pleased to invite you to join us for a our spring conference, organised in conjunction with Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL: A NEW PATH FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINE?
14 – 16 MARCH 2015, BIRKBECK
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Urgent Appeal from Physicians for Human Rights
Leave a commentJuly 25, 2014 by IJV
Urgent call from Physicians for Human Rights – Gaza
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A message from the Bereaved Families Forum
Leave a commentJuly 22, 2014 by IJV
An extract from the recent message by Chani Smith of the Bereaved Families Forum: The events in Israel and Gaza …
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