‘The Double Trial of Issa Amro’ On August 20th we hope to see the Israeli Military Court put on Trial as Israeli playwright and actress, Einat Weizman, plans the debut of her latest theatre production ‘The Double Trial of Issa Amro’. The play will centre on the case of UN formally recognised Human Rights Defender and…

A Plea to our States Assembly to Protect Our Democracy — The UK Policing Bill Dear Member of the States Assembly In the UK, we are observing the greatest assault on democracy since the end of the Second World War. The UK’s ‘Policing Bill’, which passed its second hurdle Tuesday…

Human rights activist Natalie Strecker reflects on a year racked by turmoil and global unrest — I have seen many people online refer to 2020 as the year we received 20:20 vision and I think this is an appropriate analogy for many. Reflecting back on how the year started, perhaps the indicators were already there that it would be no ordinary year. On the last day…

Issa Amro is a name everybody knows in Hebron and indeed Issa is internationally renowned within the Palestinian solidarity movement for his courageous work non-violently resisting and drawing attention to the settler colonialist project taking place, of course in the wider West Bank, but also in his birth city of…

And my experiences of the weaponization of antisemitism in Jersey — 2020 has continued our clear descent as an international community into neo-fascism. There are many excellent articles, that I could not hope to improve upon that have been written on this subject, so I will not cover this issue, but will recommend a brilliant book I read last year by…

Human Rights activist, Natalie Strecker, provides her speech from the Jersey Black Lives Matter demonstration — George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was murdered by US police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis on the 25th May whilst being taken into custody, which, as demonstrated by the footage taken at the incident shows he was not resisting. Unfortunately, this was not an unusual, nor a particularly unexpected…

This Saturday, 9 May 2020, we will see Jersey and Union flags flying proudly all around the island and although our celebrations will be curtailed by a new kind of enemy, in the form of a virus that has proved itself to be a silent but in many ways formidable…

For the past four years I, like many others, have watched with incredulity as I have witnessed the unfolding of the antisemitism ‘crisis’ within Labour, trying to make sense of it. I have witnessed good people, proven, seasoned, antiracist campaigners and others suspended or expelled for grounds that I cannot…

On Friday 22nd March 2019, Jersey’s community gathered to pay their respects to the 50 worshippers killed in the Christchurch terrorist attack — Good evening, Es Salaam Alaykum. Thank you again to you all for attending our vigil this evening to remember and honour the victims of the senseless and racially motivated act of terror perpetrated against the Muslim community in Christchurch last Friday, an event which became even more real to me…