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Hope for Palestine is hope for the left
The British left can be proud that it never abandoned Palestine to be more acceptable to the Establishment — today it is Palestine and the huge rebellion it has inspired that is breathing life into our movement, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
People take part in the National March for Palestine in Whitehall, central London, to call for a ceasefire in Israel's onslaught on Gaza, Saturday November 25 2023.

ISRAEL’S war on Gaza and on the Palestinian people is upending politics across the globe. In few places is that more so than in Britain.

 

It was surreal this week to see the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, a once-respected weekly, accuse former defence secretary Ben Wallace MP of being a Hamas surrogate. Wallace is a hawk and was touted as a replacement from the right of the Tory Party for Liz Truss.

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