As world leaders try to distance themselves from Israel’s crimes, we must continue to hold them accountable. They’ve been accomplices in this atrocity, and implacable enemies of those who have tried to stop it. They must never be forgiven.
If satirists tried to produce a caricature of legislation designed to steal from the poor to give to the rich, they couldn’t have done much better than the “big, beautiful bill” that the US House of Representatives passed by one vote on 22 May.
Today, many Jews are breaking with Zionism under the pressure of events in Gaza. This has also happened in the past. Indeed, anti-Zionism has been a crucial part of the Jewish radical tradition since the late 19th century.
The Liberal Party has historically been the preferred party of the capitalists. Currently, though, the capitalists and their representatives are despairing of the party.