Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Every place in Gaza – including schools – is a target
The massacre at al-Taba’een is the 21st attack on a school that has been serving as a shelter since July 4, writes VIJAY PRASHAD

IT IS almost as if the Israeli army is trying to gather as many Palestinians as possible in one place and then kill them all.
Ahmed Abed and his family fled the Dalal al-Maghribi school in early August after an Israeli air strike displaced them. That air strike killed 15 Palestinians who had taken refuge there after Israel had bombed their homes in the Ash Shujaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza City.
The family arrived at the al-Taba’een school, a private school with an attached mosque, that sheltered 2,500 people.
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