BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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Why is no one talking about how senior Labour Party figures whitewash apartheid?
Instead of raising Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem’s condemnations of the treatment of Palestinians, the party continues to praise Israel, says IAN SINCLAIR
Palestinian mourners carry the body of 14-year-old Mohammed Shehadeh, who was killed by Israeli troops this week, during his funeral near Bethlehem, on Wednesday
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S recent report condemning Israel for “committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” is a damning indictment of the current Israeli government (and its predecessors), and its supporters around the world.
After carrying out research for four years, Amnesty concludes that “Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has control over their rights,” including Palestinians living in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and displaced refugees in other countries.
Defining apartheid as “an institutionalised regime of oppression and domination by one racial group over another,” Amnesty explains Israel’s “massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians are all components of a system which amounts to apartheid under international law.” This constitutes a “crime against humanity,” the human rights organisation notes.
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