The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed
Yuval Abraham Journalist; Academy Award recipient (2025)Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Documentary film-maker; Sundance world cinema jury prize recipient (2012)Udi Aloni Film-maker; Tribeca film festival best international narrative feature recipient (2016)Liran Atzmor Documentary film-maker; Peabody Award recipient (2014)Prof Tali Bitan University of HaifaMichael Ben-Yair Former attorney general of Israel; former acting supreme court judgeNir Bergman Screenwriter and film director; Ophir award recipient (2020)Avraham Burg Former speaker of the Knesset; former head of the Jewish AgencyPeter Cole Poet and translator; MacArthur FellowGuy Davidi Documentary film-maker; International Emmy Award recipient (2013)Ari Folman Screenwriter and film director; Golden Globe recipient (2009)Shira Geffen Actor and screenwriter; Camera d'Or recipient (2007)Prof Emeritus Amiram Goldblum Hebrew University of JerusalemProf Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel prize recipient (2021)Tamar Gozansky Former Knesset memberProf Uri Hadar Tel Aviv UniversityProf Moty Heiblum Wolf prize in physics recipient (2025)Adina Hoffman Writer; Windham Campbell prize recipient (2013)Eran Kolirin Screenwriter and film director; Ophir Award recipient (2021)Nadav Lapid Screenwriter and film director; Golden Bear recipient (2019)Alex Levac Israel prize recipient (2005)Hagai Levi Television writer and director; Golden Globe recipient (2015)Samuel Maoz Film director; Golden Lion recipient (2009)Dr Adi Moreno Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic CollegeProf Michal Na'aman Painter; Israel prize recipient (2014)Ohad Naharin Choreographer; Israel prize recipient (2005)Daniella Nowitz Cinematographer; Academy Award recipient (2023)Prof Adi Ophir Tel Aviv UniversityInbal Pinto Choreographer and dancer; Israeli ministry of culture award recipient (2011)Aharon Shabtai Poet and translator; Israeli prime minister's prize recipient (1993)Eyal Weizman Architect; director of Forensic Architecture
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The National
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- The National
Peter Kennard to open Gaza exhibition in Edinburgh's Palestine museum
The exhibition of new work aims to reveal the 'context and complexities' of the ongoing situation, rather than simply depicting the horrors of war, and will launch at the Palestine Museum in Scotland in conjunction with the Edinburgh Festival this month. Kennard, who is a pioneering artist and activist, is celebrated for his impactful photomontages that critique politics, war, and a range of social issues. Through his art, Kennard seeks to highlight the complicity of Western governments and their active support for Israel, encouraging viewers to think critically about the situation. READ MORE: Meet the 21-year-old asylum seeker who has earned a spot at top Scottish art school His exhibition features a series of prints made using a variety of mediums, including photomontage, double-exposed photographs, drawing, and paint, in response to the ongoing conflict. Kennard explained that as an artist, he felt 'impelled' to create images which would make people think about the massacre taking place in Gaza while the world's political leaders look on. 'A horrific genocide is now taking place on the civilian population in Gaza, the children, women, and men, who are being starved, bombed, and shot,' he said. 'As an artist, I feel impelled to try and make images that will allow the general public to think about the massacre taking place, while the world's political leaders look on or openly support the genocide by sending weapons to Israel.' The showcase will run daily from 9 August to the end of the month from 11am-6pm and is free to attend. With a career spanning over five decades, Kennard has produced notable images of resistance and dissent, as he aimed to address topics such as the Vietnam War, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and environmental activism. His work has been exhibited globally, and he has been recognised as one of 'Britain's most important political artists'. The Palestine Museum in Scotland, located on Dundas Street, features work from a range of Palestinian artists showcasing paintings, sculptures and installations. The museum is the first of its kind in Europe and aims to counteract the 'dehumanisation' of the Palestinian people by illustrating their culture and narrative through art. It is the first branch of an existing museum in Woodbridge, Connecticut called the Palestine Museum US and showcases work from both international and local Palestinian artists.
New Statesman
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- New Statesman
Support for Palestine in Britain is not limited to Muslim voters
Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP 'By September, there will be nothing left to recognise.' These are the words of a right-wing Israeli journalist, posted in response to the British government's announcement that it would recognise Palestine as an independent state in September if Israel did not meet certain conditions, including agreeing a ceasefire and reviving the prospect of a two-state solution. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no less coy, accusing Keir Starmer of 'rewarding monstrous terrorism'. Dramatic language, but an alien sentiment to the median British voter, and indeed westerners, who, it seems, have an increasingly lost love for the Israeli state. Across Europe the voters' view of Israel has fallen to a new low. While a majority in every major European state agree that Israel was right to respond to the Hamas attacks of October 2023, the scale of its assault on Gaza has been disproportionate, and unforgiveable. At the start of this conflict I noted how, for the most part, Britons wanted no part in picking sides. That still holds. British enthusiasm for Israel is a minority view, and is falling with every passing month. British enthusiasm for Palestine is also minority view, but has strengthened, relatively, in recent months. But when it comes to the prospect of recognition, a plurality of voters now back recognising a Palestinian state. YouGov's latest poll on the issue finds almost half of Brits (45 per cent) back the stance set out by the UK government. Just 14 per cent are against it. The rest – a hefty 41 per cent – aren't quite so sure. Sympathy for Palestine is by no means limited to Britain's Muslim population. While it doesn't sit high as a voter motivating issue for many, the plurality view in a majority of constituencies now is that Palestinian statehood is a necessity. But where? I've taken the YouGov headline figures and applied them to a demographic and election forecast model I've built of Britain. It factors for religion, age, and voting intention. And it shows us that much of the enthusiasm for Palestinian statehood does come from the more built-up, urban areas of Britain. But it's also a little more widespread than that. Chester North backs a Palestinian state in plurality terms, while Liverpool Riverside backs it in absolute terms – almost six in ten. Neither hold significant Muslim populations. Meanwhile, 71 per cent of voters in Blackburn, a seat which saw a hefty Labour majority felled in favour of a so-called Gaza Independent in last summer's general election, backs recognising a Palestinian state outright. Clacton, Nigel Farage's own seat, isn't quite so sure. Because within the YouGov cross-breaks you find only 15 per cent of current Reform voters backing the idea of Palestinian statehood. Also worth noting is that 68 per cent of Green voters back recognising Palestine. These two findings from the more shoe-end parts of the horse-shoe parties in Britain today expose a persistent truth about UK public opinion. Reform, polling 30 per cent right now, does speak for a body of Britain that would rather stay out of anything and everything overseas. Less the successor party to Winston Churchill, Reform has become the poor-man's reboot of Neville Chamberlain-type indulgent isolationism. 'Not in my back yard? Not interested.' Whereas when it comes to Green voters, unsurprisingly a majority would back Palestinian statehood, but it is not absolute. The notion that Green supporters are all a bunch of activists is very much an online view. The Greens are not sloppy seconds for disgruntled Labour members. Their appeal speaks to a voter base in rural England, one that is not especially enthusiastic for Zack Polanski's eco-populism. The findings from this model projection tell us the following. Enthusiasm for a Palestinian state will, naturally, be concentrated in Muslim-majority areas – areas that gave Starmer's Labour outsized defeats in council and parliamentary elections. But there is a growing number of voters who believe that Palestinian statehood must be recognised in Merseyside, in County Cheshire, in Wrexham, in the Central Belt of Scotland and indeed, even in Home Counties England. [See also: How do we keep the lid on race-related violence?] Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Related
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- Economist
State swing: recognising Palestine
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