Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
Day 4: East Jerusalem. “The Nakba [Disaster] has never ended,” the director of the Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights tells us when we meet.
She explains that the Oslo accords had provided hope that a Palestinian state would be created but the outcomes were a disaster following the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin in 1995.
The West Bank was divided up and the rights of Palestinians increasingly restricted, including their rights to travel freely.
House and village demolitions are a daily occurrence to enable land confiscation and the settlement expansion declared illegal in international law.

Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right


