Author

Tom Suarez

Browsing
People make their way amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment, in the Jabalia camp for displaced Palestinians on August 31, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)

Palestine is the perfect illustration of the West’s staggering hypocrisy. The Gaza genocide defines us because it is us. 

Lamar Elias conducting l’Orchestre Symphonique Étudiant de Toulouse (Photo: Robert Lacroix)

Tom Suarez interviews Lamar Elias, who was recently named Artistic Director of l’Orchestre Symphonique Étudiant de Toulouse. “My hope is that music, and especially classical music, can be a voice of liberty for the Palestinian youth.”

In the opera Amal — Oltre il Muro, siblings are on a quest to reach their father in prison. Left-to-right of the in-focus figures: Rami, played by Yacoub; Sabri, played by Mohammad; Amal, played by Lina; Faizah, played by Tala. All are from Hebron. (Photo: Fares S. Mansour)

Palestine’s Amwaj Choir has embarked on an ambitious eight-stop tour of Italy, which includes performing the opera “Amal — Oltre il Muro” based on the work of imprisoned Palestinian writer Walid Daqqah.

Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn at the premiere of the film 'I, Daniel Blake', in 2016. (Photo: Joel Ryan/AP via Getty Images)

“I am proud to stand with the good friends and comrades victimised by the purge,’ filmmaker Ken Loach says of his expulsion from the Labor Party over bogus antisemitism allegations. It was predicted that once Jeremy Corbyn was out, the “antisemitism” claims within the UK Labour Party would suddenly vanish. Instead, the purge of Labour’s anti-Zionist left has adapted to the new battlefield.

The news invariably invokes “Hamas” and “rockets” to explain the Israeli siege and massacres. No: Although Israel heightened its blockade after the rise of Hamas, the siege began in 1948 and has continued unabated since. Many of the people Israel ethnically cleansed in 1948 ended up in Gaza, facing starvation, cold, and disease in the suddenly overpopulated land.