How the UK government has bought into Israeli hasbara
JVL Introduction
UK government policy with regard to Israel-Palestine has long consisted of a few stale and empty mantras, for example being “firmly committed to a two-state solution”, which is “to be achieved by meaningful negotiation between the two parties”.
But as the emptiness of these slogans becomes ever more apparent, so too does the hypocrisy of the government.
Rabbiting on about peace and negotiation – and caring passionately about human rights in Ukraine – it simply turns a blind eye to the realities on the ground in Israel-Palestine: occupation, ethnic cleansing, land theft, arbitrary arrest and detention, apartheid…
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Reproduced with permission of Middle East Eye
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Mon 18 Apr 2022. Read the original here.
How the UK government has bought into Israeli hasbara
Official communications are replete with empty mantras about ‘restraint on both sides’ and Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’
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