Sean Oakley

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Nov 2, 2015, 9:40 PM

Protest for Palestine

I asked two of our PSC branch’s most active members, who attended the protest, what they took away from it in hindsight. Q – How many people would you say attended the march? And what was the general atmosphere? A – There were...

Jul 7, 2015, 5:54 PM

Some words are bandied about more liberally than they’re understood. Dr Mads Gilbert decided, at the end of his SOAS talk – which I had the harrowing privilege of seeing – last month, to clarify the meaning of solidarity: the expression...

Mar 23, 2015, 8:59 AM

Bibi Jumped The Shark

The dust continues to settle after the Israeli national election. Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that "there will be no Palestinian state", in the event of his reelection, challenged radically the status quo in international diplomacy. Netanyahu's stance was one already suspected by many,...

Feb 5, 2015, 12:59 PM

Sufism, Israelites, and an anthology of Yahia Lababidi

On August 18th, towards the end of the last brutal assault on Gaza, Cairene Sufi poet Yahia Lababidi published the poem "An Open Letter to Israel" on Electronic Intifada. Lababidi began his letter with the poignant Nietzschean call for...

Dec 7, 2014, 6:18 PM

Members of my generation could be forgiven lately for questioning whether or not we were born after the Cold War ended; or - even more troublingly - wondering if we're currently experiencing a twisted 'hotter' Cold War 2.0. House...

Oct 16, 2014, 9:36 PM

Occupy Thy Neighbour

Yesterday the French foreign minister signalled his country's intention to recognise the state of Palestine, with the proviso they'd only do so if the next round of peace negotiations failed. The day before, the British parliament recognised Palestine in...

Oct 5, 2014, 1:33 PM

55 Years in Tibet

After a half-century of occupation, self-immolations, the exile of an ancient spiritual community and its leader from their ancestral land, the cold-blooded assassination of pilgrims and monastics by Chinese soldiers, a million-strong genocide, and rampant political corruption, the Dalai...

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About Me

Writer and activist in the UK. Worked alongside the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist, and Secular Student Societies and various London-based organisations opposed to the political and religious right. Now, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's press officer for its Slough branch. My experiences - and that of my family in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands - continue to inform, rather than contradict, my position as a Jewish post-Zionist active in the international and domestic peace movements.