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A classic piece of sophistry from the BBC
Former BBC Middle East Correspondent Tim LLewellyn calls out the BBC for erecting an Iron Wall to deflect complaints and appease British Governments “who at once support Israel to the hilt and hold the BBC’s future in their hands.”
Even wars have rules: Israel is breaking them
By Leah Levane
Jeremy Bowen has talked with the International Committee of the Red Cross and other legal experts who are clear that laws are being broken by Israel, even if you (ludicrously) take October 7th as the starting point. Hamas and others committed war crimes on October 7th 2023 when civilians were attacked, killed or kidnapped. Since …
Some change but legacy media is still failing on Gaza
By Leah Levane
The tide is turning, even in the media, but few editors or journalists are acknowledging that they got it wrong. For those who listened, reported on and took seriously the statements made by Israeli political and military leaders, the genocidal intent was front and centre of their reporting. For too many others it was a …
Strategically Starving Gaza
By Leah Levane
This article by Leila Sansour was written just before the 4* sites for food aid distribution were opened by the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and over 60 people were shot trying to get to the food. Here Leila Sansour asks and examines why Israel persisted with creating these famine conditions, given that it has …
The contortions of Liberal Zionism
In a blistering post on his blog, Joseph Finlay skewers the contortions of liberal Zionists who want to have their cake and eat it. He welcomes many in this category, late converts speaking out against the war on Gaza. But he stresses their limitations: “[S]ome of those coming round, particularly those with large public platforms …
Visiting Auschwitz in an age of monsters
A tour group organised by the National Education Union and Stand up to Racism visited Poland at the end of May, grappling with the lessons we must learn from the ghettos and death camps of Nazi Occupied Europe in WWII.
Sanctions now: reasons to expel Israel’s Ambassador
By Leah Levane
Sanctions against Israel are long overdue. The government and Labour MPs claim they are using “all diplomatic levers” but this is not the case. Here Jonathan Cook outlines some of the many ways in which Starmer and his government are not using doing that, indeed “The truth is that even the government’s highly circumscribed “sanctions” against Israel are nothing more than hollow threats. It has been, and continues to be, business as usual with Israel throughout the Gaza genocide.”
Muslims do not feel valued in Starmer’s Labour
By Leah Levane
The Labour Muslim Network has surveyed elected Muslim representatives and their conclusions should worry Labour’s leadership. Below are some statistics with a majority feeling Muslims were badly represented and a very high percentage dissatisfied with the government’s approach to what is happening in Gaza and 97% wanting recognition of a Palestinian State. One Muslim Labour …
Israel is arming a (possibly) ISIS affiliated militia in Gaza!
By Leah Levane
Several articles have been published in Israeli media about Israel providing weapons to a Jihadist group in the Gaza Strip affiliated with ISIS. None other than former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. “The Hamasha clan are in essence lawless criminals who in recent years wanted to give themselves an ideological angle or spin, so they …