In interviews and a comment article over the weekend, the UK education secretary Bridget Phillipson made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israel’s criminal actions – and, of course, her own government’s collusion in...
There are several points that urgently need making about yesterday’s Palestine Action protest, which led to some 890 demonstrators being arrested – most of them on terrorism charges for silently holding a sign saying: “I support Palestine Action.” Police...
There are too many pundits, like the interminably dim-witted Piers Morgan, who are slowly, oh-so-slowly coming round to the idea that Israel might be committing a genocide in Gaza. But of course, they are still dismissing as “antisemites” those of us who pointed out...
Keir Starmer has been desperately searching for ways to make it look as if his government is getting tough with Israel. As public anger grows at images from Gaza of emaciated children, echoing historic images of Jewish children being starved in Nazi concentration...
If you have spent the past 20 months wondering why British leaders on both sides of the aisle have barely criticised Israel, even as it slaughtered and starved Gaza’s population of more than two million people, you finally got an answer last week. Conservative Party...
If you want to understand why Starmer has changed his *tone* about Gaza – but not his actions – watch the short exchange below on this week’s BBC Question Time between an audience member and cabinet minister Heidi Alexander. A woman berates the Labour government for...
After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments, western publics are now being served up a different – but equally deceitful – narrative. With the finishing line in sight for Israel’s program of genocidal ethnic cleansing,...
[READERS’ NOTE: Given the intentional chilling effect of Britain’s Terrorism Act, and the expansive interpretation of it by British terror police in relation to reporting and commentary about Gaza, this article was subjected to two reviews by lawyers before it was...
Israel and its genocide cheerleaders are claiming Israel's air strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza last week – which killed several patients and staff – was justified because a Hamas politician was being treated there for injuries from an earlier Israeli strike....
What excuses has Israel given for renewing the genocide: 1. Israel says it is trying to force Hamas to release the captives in Gaza. Yet, as we know from those already released, the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza only increases the chances the captives will be killed....
