Jonathan Cook
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Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism
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Biden’s war on Gaza has become not just a war on the right to protest but a war on truth too.
My latest article can be read here:
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Finally, a European politician daring to say what the vast majority of us are thinking.
“Bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court so that he can be tried for what he is, a war criminal.”
—Ione Belarra, Spain’s Minister of Social Rights
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The genocide apologists are out in force tonight.
Having lost the argument – no group in Gaza has a rocket that can flatten a hospital, not even close – they're trying to spin it differently.
Supposedly it was still one of Islamic Jihad's paltry home-made rockets but the damage
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UNRWA is separate from the UN’s main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.
Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in
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Unlike Nile Gardiner, I actually am an expert on Israel-Palestine, reporting from there daily for over 20 years.
I can confidently say: You don't need to be a 'foreign policy analyst' to understand that bombing children is wrong. You need to be a thinking, feeling human being
Gary Lineker’s knowledge of foreign and national security policy is practically zero. His vast narcissism and ego as a BBC football pundit is matched only by his sheer ignorance
Gary Lineker backs pro-Palestinian protesters in row over Armistice Day march
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Western media appear to have missed the story that a mass grave of Palestinian bodies has been found in northern Gaza, handcuffed and with signs that the victims were tortured, then executed. Busy news weekend presumably.
Story here:
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We're on the brink of a Middle East war, which could quickly escalate into a world war, with nuclear weapons.
Still so certain it was a good idea to let Israel brutalise the Palestinians, steal their land, herd them into tiny reservations, and now slaughter them – all while we
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Tut, tut. Swedish singer broke Eurovision rules by wearing a keffiyeh wrist-band. But apparently Israel didn't break the rules by murdering 15,000-plus children in Gaza.
“All performers are made aware of the rules of the contest, and we regret that Eric Saade chose to compromise the non-political nature of the event.”
🇸🇪🇵🇸 Eurovision organisers (the EBU) on Eric Saade, the opening act, for wearing a keffiyeh.
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Ehud Barak tells Christiane Amanpour it was Israel that built a major bunker under al-Shifa hospital back in the 1980s. This fact's been all over social media for weeks, but Amanpour is stunned.
Establishment journalists really do live in their own bubble of fake news.
Ehud Barak: "Israel built the bunkers under al-Shifa hospital".
And the anchor was shocked
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Stunning moment when a Sky News journalist programmed only to run through western propaganda talking-points gets schooled by a Palestinian in what it means to be a thinking, feeling human being
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For decades, Palestinians demanded that the world acknowledge the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 to create a European Jewish ethno-supremacist state in their place.
They were ignored, ridiculed or accused of hating Jews. Now we see the
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Former UK ambassador Craig Murray attended the International Court of Justice yesterday on South Africa's genocide case against Israel:
'It occurred to me that the people who really did not want to be in the Court at all were the judges, because it is, in fact, the judges and
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Let's say it again: The BIGGEST fake news comes from the establishment media. When the stakes are high, it barely bothers to hide its role as mouthpiece for Western propaganda.
This is another Iraqi WMD moment. We are being gaslit. Believe your eyes and ears, and the laws of
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No evidence produced that Hamas beheaded babies.
Headline = 'Hamas beheaded 40 babies'
Overwhelming evidence that Israel alone possesses weapons capable of flattening Gaza hospital.
Headline = 'We may never know who hit hospital'
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The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement.
Israel didn't just cleanse
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You might have assumed a Pulitzer Prize would go to the brave journalists of Gaza. More than 100 of them have been killed by Israel in the past seven months – the fiercest eruption of violence against journalists ever. But you'd be wrong.
Instead it was the New York Times that
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US says: Israel's slaughter of 10,000s of Palestinians in Gaza is self-defence, not genocide, because Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
US says: Iran firing missiles at Israel is not self-defence, it's a dangerous act of aggression, even though Israel earlier bombed Iran's
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The family of Al Jazeera's chief reporter in Gaza has been killed by an Israeli strike. According to Israeli media, they were targeted because Israel didn't like Wael Al-Dahdouh's reporting.
This should serve as confirmation, if we needed it, that the sniper who shot dead Al
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No, NYT, starvation isn't stalking Gaza's children, like some weird, abstract predator. Israel is choosing to starve Gaza's children by blocking aid.
Starvation isn't committing genocide. Israel is.
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Two days before Israel is to stand in the dock at the International Court of Justice, accused of committing genocide, the UK's foreign secretary David Cameron suddenly remembers, under intense questioning, that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza, and that it therefore has a
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Israel is doing nothing it hasn't been doing since its creation 75 years ago: killing and displacing Palestinian civilians.
The difference now is:
a) it's dramatically sped up its kill rate
b) it's slaughtering Palestinians while everyone is watching
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Even if you have committed to a side – Israel's or the Palestinians' – you can and should stand back, every now and then, to look at the bigger picture.
There are reasons the West is continuously waging wars, or fuelling them. Think of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine,
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A BBC journalist writes to director general Tim Davie about the corporation's dire coverage of Gaza:
'It appears the BBC is keeping a lot of highly significant and relevant information, including extensive evidence, expert opinion, and historical context, from the public.
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Why? Is Israel postponing its bombing of Gaza's children?
We ask organisers to consider postponing any demonstrations in
#London
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#ArmisticeWeekend
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Those who hold Hamas responsible for Gaza's suffering because it attacked Israel on Oct 7 are exactly the same people who never said a word about Gaza's suffering through 16 years of Israeli siege.
They only remember Gaza when it hits back – and then they want it destroyed
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Amal Clooney, human rights lawyer to the stars, and her Clooney Foundation are outspoken on rights abuses committed by the West's enemies – from Russia and Venezuela to Iran.
Yet, peculiarly, she's completely silent on Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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One of the fundamentals of international law – at the heart of the Geneva Conventions – is a prohibition on collective punishment: that is, retaliating against the enemy’s civilian population, making them pay the price for the acts of their leaders and armies.
Very obviously,
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For those peddling the idea that Israel wasn't behind the rocket strike on the Gaza hospital, all of the following would need to be true:
1. Palestinian groups have managed to bypass Israel's siege and get their hands on very hi-tech weapons completely undetected by Israel.
2.
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The BBC finally notices that Jewish settlers are on the rampage in the West Bank, backed by the Israeli army. Some 150 Palestinian civilians have been killed there in the past month. Palestinian families are being driven off their lands in ethnic cleansing operations that are
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What happens when the US has a presidential candidate who's not narcissistic, senile, or beholden to corporate lobbyists? Answer: she gets thrown in jail.
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Marc Lamont Hill gets an ex-Israeli official to admit Israel is starving Gaza's civilians in revenge for Hamas' attack – a clear war crime.
This is what proper journalism looks like: interrogating power and holding it to account. You'll never see anything like it on the BBC
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1. The Israeli military has intentionally promoted disinformation about Oct 7 – such as evidence-free claims that Hamas committed unspeakable acts, including mutilating bodies and beheading babies – to justify Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Western media has willingly amplified
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Ex-ambassador Craig Murray:
'Yesterday I attended a session called by Palestine at the United Nations in Geneva. Over 120 states attended. While the formal session consisted of statements of national position with few surprises, I was able to discuss with a large number of
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Israel's high court has finally ruled that Jewish settlers handed tracts of West Bank land stolen by the Israeli state decades ago must return it to the Palestinian owners.
The Jewish settlers have been farming it for 30 years in violation of both international and Israeli law.
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What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7:
Kibbutz Be’eri has been a favoured destination for BBC reporters keen to illustrate Hamas’ barbarity. It is where Lucy Williamson headed once again this week.
And yet none of her reporting highlighted comments made to the Israeli
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Wow! Radical change of policy at BBC News at Ten. It excitedly reports young women – the resistance – making improvised bombs against Russia's advance. Presumably Palestinians resisting Israel can now expect similar celebratory coverage from BBC reporters
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In the latest of a cycle of "Hamas mass rape" articles, the Guardian joins the fray. It recycles a supposed eyewitness account of a group of Hamas fighters taking turns to rape a woman at the Nova festival on October 7, then cutting off her breast to play a football-like game
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No one really cared while Gaza’s Palestinans were subjected to a blockade imposed by Israel that denied them the essentials of life. The few dozen Israelis being held hostage by Hamas fighters pale in comparison with the two million Palestinians held hostage by Israel in an
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One doesn't need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this:
1. In public, Biden appears “tough” on Netanyahu, urging him not to “invade” Rafah and pressuring him to allow more “humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
2. But already
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Hundreds of EU staff have broken ranks to express fury at European Commission president Ursula von Der Leyen's backing of Israeli atrocities in Gaza. They accuse her of giving 'a free hand to the acceleration and the legitimacy' of massacres
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Why is there only one British politician speaking the language of morality and international law at the moment?
History has proved him right on every major international crisis over the past several decades. He'll be proved right once more
We may be witnessing the total obliteration of Gaza.
Political leaders refusing to speak out should feel eternal shame over the horror they are allowing to unfold.
Those of us who believe in peace cannot stay silent. We must say to the Palestinian people: you are not alone.
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We often wonder how people in past times could have been such monsters and stood by while atrocities were being perpetrated against fellow human beings.
And yet here we are, watching them play out live on our TV sets as we drink a cup of tea.
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Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.
No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite
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If there is an enduring image of how Israel so completely embodies the most obscene elements of settler colonialism, it is young, carefree Israelis holding a rave on the edge of an open-air prison, encaging 2 million Palestinians.
The Western media presents Hamas' attack on
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Why did the International Court of Justice accept all of South Africa's arguments but not order Israel to end its genocidal military assault on Gaza?
Because it dared not take on the real culprit: the US. Biden would have been forced to wield his veto at the Security Council to
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For weeks, the media made sure Gaza's astounding suffering – daily bombing of children and families, mass ethnic cleansing, genocide – shared the billing with (or more often got second billing after) the story of the shockwaves for Israel from Hamas' October 7 attack.
As the
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The British philosopher Bertrand Russell's warning from 1970 on Israel's strategy in the Middle East rings more prophetic than ever in 2024:
'For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has
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BBC correspondents really don't bother to hide where their priorities lie.
After assessing the likely backlash from Israel massacring civilians in Gaza, James Langdale, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, concluded on the News at Ten tonight:
'Final scary thought: Not only are
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Why Corbyn had to go as Labour leader. He's one of the only British politicians to show a moral backbone and call out Israel's genocidal policies.
30,000 killed. 1.8 million displaced. Thousands of children starving slowly to death. That is the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
This is not the time for equivocation. This is the time for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
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It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet:
"The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there."
This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith
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Former UK ambassador Craig Murray ask a series of damning questions:
How is it possible that an obviously faked video – of a crowd supposedly chanting 'Gas the Jews' in Sydney – was repeatedly and uncritically flagged as a real antisemitic incident by politicians and the
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Only two possible assumptions can make Hamas killing some two dozen Israeli children *more* of an atrocity than Israel killing many thousands of Palestinian children:
either a racist assumption that Palestinian lives are inherently worth less than Israeli lives;
or a
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Another Gaza hospital is hit tonight, after last night's massacre, with a high-velocity missile of the kind only Israel has.
Is this hard to understand? When Israel said it was going to treat every person in Gaza like a 'human animal', like a terrorist, it wasn't joking
BREAKING: Medical staff at ANOTHER Gaza hospital (al-Quds) cower in fear as Israeli missiles rain down on them.
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The BBC's reporting on Gaza – or rather lack of it – is beyond parody.
Tonight's News at 10 featured reporter Wyre Davies finding yet another excuse for the BBC to return at length to the fall-out for Israelis from the three-month-old events of October 7, followed by him gravely
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So the UK is not willing to lift a finger to protect Gaza's children from Israeli bombs. But the British government has banned demos outside the Israeli embassy in London to protect staff from hearing about the dead children
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The hardest thing about the war on Gaza isn't seeing the monstrous crimes approved by Israeli leaders – they've been doing the same, just more slowly, for decades.
It's realising how many people are fine with bombing children, so long as the flimsiest of pretexts is provided
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Research shows terms like 'massacre' and 'slaughter' are only ever used by the New York Times to describe the killing of Israelis, never for the killing of Palestinians.
Now the Intercept has found the NYT memo that specifically bars its journalists, and even interviewees, from
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Be sure, despite its obsessive revisiting of the events of October 7 in Israel, the BBC won't be reporting on this latest development:
Families of those killed in Kibbutz Be'eri that day are demanding an official investigation into the growing body of evidence that their loved
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Israel was founded as a Jewish supremacist state. Some observers mistakenly assume that, as a result, Israel sees Palestinian or Arab lives as of less value. No, as the calculated strike on the World Kitchen aid convoy shows, Israel views all non-Jewish life as of less value.
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Russia continues to be barred from the Eurovision song contest for invading Ukraine. Palestinian flags are banned to avoid 'politicising' the event.
But the non-European state of Israel, currently carrying out a genocide in Gaza, is not only participating. Its flag will be
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BBC News tonight
From Israel:
Five-day-old videos showing attack on partygoers.
Soldiers mobilising for a ground invasion.
Soldiers giving tearful children a final goodbye hug.
Families in safe rooms under threat of rocket attack.
Grandmas weeping for their loved ones taken
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Exhibit 1 in how you terrorise celebrities and public figures into keeping silent on a genocide unfolding in plain view.
Church was raising money for children in Gaza being starved by an Israeli aid blockade.
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Film director reminds everyone at the Oscars that slaughtering and maiming 10,000s of children is a bad thing and shouldn't be done in the name of Jews.
450 Jews in Hollywood disagree and say they are happy to be identified with such slaughter.
More:
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Ex-ambassador Craig Murray: 'The world has been jolted, suddenly. Masks have been ripped off. Almost the entire political Establishment of the West have outed themselves as enthusiastic proponents of a racial supremacism, prepared to give active assistance to a genocide of
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Former British ambassador Craig Murray:
In both the UK and the US there can be no more stark illustration of the lack of any kind of meaningful democracy, than the fact that there is no major political party that opposes the genocide [in Gaza] – despite massive public
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Biden was told a lie by Netanyahu's officials: that Hamas had beheaded children.
Biden then decided to recycle that lie but add a lie of his own: that he'd actually seen the photos.
Babies being ripped from incubators (Gulf 1991)
Weapons of mass destruction (Iraq 2003)
Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded Israeli children
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Finally, a European government minister calling what's happening in Gaza a genocide, and demanding that Netanyahu be put on trial at The Hague for war crimes
We ask our partner that, as the Government of Spain, we bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Here is my official statement 👇
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Israeli historian Ilan Pappe on the genocide in Gaza:
'Even the Nakba [Israel's creation through the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948], which was an unimaginable catastrophe, does not compare to what we are seeing now – and what we are going to see
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Mark my words:
Israel and its western allies are soon going to start selling you the idea that ethnic cleansing is a 'humanitarian' measure because it's better than the alternative of genocide.
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Piers Morgan is insufferable. He invites on rare voices supportive of Gaza, insists he's even-handed, then berates them unless they condemn the chaotic violence of Oct 7 as the worst atrocity in living memory, compared to industrial genocide in Gaza.
And he won't condemn Israel
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Where suddenly is BBC Verify when you need it?
BBC News is going out of its way to lend a sympathetic ear to Israel's patently ridiculous claim that Islamic Jihad, not Israel, hit al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, killing many hundreds of Palestinian families sheltering there.
That's
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The Catholic Church's collusion with the Nazi genocide is rightly seen as an enduring moral stain.
The Church of England's collusion with Israel's genocide in Gaza will be remembered in exactly the same way.
Archbishop Justin Welby is the most shameful of the clerical cowards.
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Imagine being inside Rachel Riley's head:
* She tells us she keeps herself out of central London on Saturdays because peaceful, mass rallies calling for a Gaza ceasefire supposedly pose some kind of violent threat to Jews.
* Except separately, she's told us: 'I don't look like
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The head of Yad Vashem, Israel's renowned Holocaust museum, rejects a letter from 50 Holocaust experts calling on him to condemn the rash of statements from senior Israeli figures calling for genocide in Gaza.
Yad Vashem, he says, is not interested in the universal lessons of
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'It's another Nakba. It's a crime against humanity, not a humanitarian crisis.'
A Europe-wide political system that produces only a tiny handful of representatives like Clare Daly, ready to give voice to what's staring us all in the face, is a depraved, corrupt system
A historic crime is unfolding in Gaza & the EU is in it up to its neck. MEPs sit & watch the slaughter & cannot even condemn it, calling it a "humanitarian crisis," as if it was caused by the weather.
Infamy. EU will never live down the shame of today's resolution.
#LongLiveGaza
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Fascinating. I set out Israel's game plan for genocide in Gaza, and now Facebook has banned my post – and is threatening to ban me – for inciting to violence.
So it's ok for Israel to commit genocide, but it's not ok for me to point out how Israel's doing it.
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After peddling the lie of Hamas beheading babies, western media are once again promoting an easily debunked deception from Israel.
President Isaac Herzog says a Hamas fighter killed in Israel was carrying a manual on how to make chemical weapons.
EXCEPT:
The manual is *not*
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The Israeli Haaretz newspaper interviews the army's 'ethics' chief, Asa Kasher, of Tel Aviv university, about two major incidents on October 7:
1. An Israeli commander ordered a tank to fire into a home in Kibbutz Be'eri knowing that there were 14 Israeli civilians inside,
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The late Israeli actor Juliano Mer Khamis recalled that his military service in the first intifada was to plant guns on dead Palestinian civilians to justify the IDF killing them.
Let's assume this feeble 'haul' is real. How does it possibly justify committing genocide in Gaza?
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The UK has actively assisted Israel in imposing a famine on Gaza. But it is now sending 20,000 "Dignity Kits" to Gaza's 1.2 million women and girls that include a bottle of shampoo for hair care and a whistle for their protection – as they starve to death.
What’s in a dignity kit?
@UNFPA
’s London director
@MonicaPFerro
talks us through the life-saving items in the packs we’re funding in Gaza.
#WorldHealthDay
#PublicHealth
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Oxfam:
- Israel blocks aid from entering Gaza
- If aid trucks get in, Israel targets them
- If Israel doesn't target them, it targets the people trying to reach the aid
"This is how Israel's making a perfect storm to ensure our humanitarian operations are completely blocked."
Oxfam have published a report today that documents how Israel is deliberately blocking humanitarian operations in Gaza.
Nour Shawaf from Oxfam explains.
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Please take this moment to study, really study, the journalists working for the BBC, ITV and Ch4. Do they seem like fearless, independent, objective observers of the world, or more like fawning courtiers? This is the moment when the mask slips. Drink it in deeply...
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The one thing we can know with absolute certainty is this:
However many atrocities Hamas was responsible for on Oct 7, it was a tiny fraction of the atrocities Cherie Blair's husband needs to stand trial for at The Hague.
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Just remember when the 'respectable' media warn us about fake news that the biggest fake news we're being exposed to – every day, for weeks on end – is peddled by the 'respectable' media: that Israel is 'eradicating' Hamas, rather than the truth that it is carrying out ethnic
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The UN secretary-general manages to condense into 30 seconds the historic context needed to understand that Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza – a context, let us note, the western media never seems to find time for
UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
"The attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation."
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Spokesman Mark Regev admits Israel inflated the number of dead from Oct 7 because hundreds of bodies were so badly burnt Israel accidentally included 200 Hamas fighters in the total.
As Ali Abunimah points out, Regev was inadvertently confirming the plentiful evidence that it
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Israel’s attack on Gaza provokes revulsion from so many because it seems impossible to rationalise it. It feels like a reversion. It lays bare something primitive and ugly about the West’s behaviour that has been obscured for more than 70 years by a veneer of “progress”, by talk
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The Israeli military admits for the first time that it killed its own civilians on October 7 "in immense and complex quantity" – and for that reason "it would not be morally sound to investigate these incidents".
More here:
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Amazing how quickly the establishment media can shrink our memories by bombarding us with propaganda.
A few months back, journalists were warning that Israel had the most far-right government in its history, including self-declared religious fascists, who wanted to make the
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Covering the World Court hearings that found Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza, the BBC showed Israel's defence in full while it aired only a few clips of South Africa's prosecution case.
Grilled by a Commons committee, BBC boss David Jordan concedes the decision
NEW: The BBC made a 'mistake' in choosing to show Israel's defence against genocide charges in full – despite only showing clips of South Africa's arguments to the opposite, a top official has said
Watch BBC editorial policy director David Jordan make the admission to MPs 👇
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A few observations on President Biden’s building of a “temporary pier” – or what his officials are grandly calling a “port” – to get aid into Gaza:
1. Though no one is mentioning it, Biden is actually violating Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza with his plan. Gaza doesn’t have a
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Chris Hedges:
Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic regimes. It does not deform the truth, it inverts it. It paints a picture that is diametrically opposed to reality..
Israeli supporters thirst for these lies. They do not want to know the
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Even more so than in 1948, what Israel is doing is staring us in the face in real time. And yet, just as in 1948, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative.
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza. Most genocide experts
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The BBC's been bombarded with complaints about its skewing of language to obscure Israel's role in killing Palestinians in Gaza. Yet it keeps running headlines like this one.
In fact, Israel's role in killing these 42 family members isn't mentioned *anywhere* in the story
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Quite extraordinarily, in reporting the devastation of ravaged houses and burnt and crumpled cars from Hamas' October 7 attack, journalists have completely ignored not only testimonies from Israeli survivors, Israeli witnesses and Israeli military personnel but the visual
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New investigations reveal the illegal dark money that financed Keir Starmer's takeover of the Labour party:
'A massive fraud was perpetrated in the 2020 Labour leadership election. It is now clear that Starmer was a kind of Manchurian Candidate, a sleeper agent for entirely
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Let me get this straight. Biden gives Israel a blank cheque, which it uses not only to slaughter civilians in Gaza for six months, but to bomb the Iranian consulate in Damascus, a very grave violation of international law.
US intelligence tells Biden this risks triggering a
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The BBC's misrepresentations are off the charts at the moment.
Lyse Doucet thinks she's offering 'balance' by stating that Gaza's 'dire humanitarian crisis' is about to get much worse – as though Israel's 16-year blockade of Palestinians by land, sea and air, starving them and
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BBC journalists just can't grasp – or maybe don't dare express – what it's like to be in Gaza right now.
Clive Myrie called the people of Gaza 'anxious'.
No, Clive. I'm anxious about what's happening in Gaza. They aren't anxious. They're traumatised and terrified
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Israel's own assessment is that 16 Israeli children died during the Oct 7 attack.
We know that Israeli bombs have killed many thousands of Palestinian children so far.
The question anyone who supports continuing with this massacre of the innocent has to ask themselves is this:
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Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, enthuses about the crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza by what he calls “our heroic soldiers” – yes, if you or I conflated the Jewish people with Israel, we’d be called antisemites.
He then reveals that his son, Danny, is
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