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....
There has been a prolonged furore over the BBC’s craven decision to ban a documentary on life in Gaza under Israel’s bombs after it incensed Israel and its lobbyists by, uniquely, humanising the enclave’s children. The English-speaking child narrator, 13-year-old...
Walter Salles' new film I’m Still Here is a moving, true-story, Oscar-nominated portrait of a middle-class, leftwing family in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s struggling to come to terms with the father's disappearance – 25 years later confirmed as murder – by the...
The death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this – all the more so when Israel’s apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest that the figures are inflated. On 6 May, 7 months into Israel’s...
