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“The Board of Deputies of British Jews” says Chair Vivian Wineman, ” is not a mouthpiece for the Israeli government to defend Israeli policy” – but reading his statement on the flotilla ‘episode’ you might be forgiven for thinking otherwise…
And Mick Davis, chairman of both the UJIA and the executive committee of the Jewish Leadership Council, has demanded a greater “collaboration” between Israel and diaspora Jews: “His words will be seen as a barely coded attack on Israel’s dismissal of diaspora views about the Middle East…”

While welcoming the agreement to open the Gaza land border crossings “within the next few days” to all domestic goods… we note that the agreement has not lifted the naval blockade…

Parallels are drawn with the Exodus in 1947: “ON THE high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the passengers were killed, scores injured…”
Articles by Uri Avnery, Linda Grant and Richard Irvine

Latest: Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship. Emergency demonstration today Monday at 2.00pm outside Downing Street.

29 May: Swedish author Henning Mankel hasn’t turned up for his planned speech at the Hay book festival – according to the Guardian he ‘has an excuse not many will be able to argue with’ – because he’s ‘leading an aid convoy to Palestine,’ which has been ‘delayed, and is in the process of negotiating entry into Israeli waters’…

“Israel will try to block flotilla from reaching Gaza, but will let aid through…” Links to articles by the ISM (“Israel’s Disinformation Campaign”), Diaa Hadid for AP (“Israel’s Gaza blockade baffles residents”), Isabel Kershner NYT (“Ships Head to Gaza, in Defiance of Israeli Blockade”, and the Gaza Freedom flotilla website among others…

In extracts from his new book “Hopes and Prospects” Noam Chomsky provides an overview of recent history of Gaza, of the settlements and of Washington’s changing responses to Israel. He sees little substance to Obama’s commitment to democracy and human rights in relation to the conflict…

Amira Hass writes: “The demonstrations in Cairo are conclusive proof that Israel pressured Egypt not to allow entry into Gaza,” said one Egyptian citizen (who like other Egyptians, did not dare participate in the demonstrations, for fear of punishment). “What does Egypt need this headache for? It would have been easier and simpler to have sent them all to Gaza and forget about them.”

Alternative Information Center report, Executive Summary The Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip from 27 December 2008, to 18 January 2009, was the most violent and deadly offensive by Israel since the second Intifada began. According to the UN, 1,434 Palestinian residents of Gaza were killed by the Israeli forces, and over 5,000 were […]

Thursday 16th February, 8.00 p.m. Cambridge Union Debating Chamber Proposition: Dr. Brian Klug: Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. Daphna Baram: Journalist, Author of ‘Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel’ Richard Kuper: Chair, Jews for Justice for Palestinians […]

Reuven Moskovitz, a proud member of the crew on the Irene, our JfJfP Jewish Boat To Gaza in 2010, has died.

Glyn Secker, captain of the Irene, remembers him.

Lillian Rosengarten, one of the seven elderly Jews who tried to reach Gaza in the Jewish boat to Gaza, is aghast at what some Jews can do to other Jews and enraged at how Israelis use caricatures and religious nationalism to render Palestinians sub-human.