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Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what ‘Globalise the intifada’ actually means

Sir Mark Rowley, your primary concern is not public safety but protecting the interests of the British establishment. And it has decreed that no opposition to Israel’s genocide will be tolerated.

The lobby is milking the Bondi Beach attack to silence critics of Israel’s genocide

It is years of dedicated work by the Israel lobby that has ensured the mass murder of Palestinians is viewed by governments, the media and parts of the Jewish community as entirely legitimate.

Don’t worry, be happy. All those who feared a dystopian future got it wrong

A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Fortunately, these bleak visions never came to pass.

It’s antisemitic to call out Israel’s genocide, says the Guardian

The band Primal Scream had the audacity to tell its audience that the British government is complicit in genocide. They have been reported to the police for doing so.

Israel’s biggest con trick: Hiding the true numbers it has killed in Gaza

Israel has penned us all into a ‘debate’, one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire – not the genocide it is waging by other means.

Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show?

Starmer desperately needs the trial of six peace activists who targeted Israeli arms firm Elbit to go his way, and bolster his government’s claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation.

The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms

Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel’s genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA’s 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media.

Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up

Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer’s outlaw government.

Breaking free of media group-think is a scary, lonely journey. I know. I was forced to do it

The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine.

BBC news has a long record of disinformation. But this time it chose the wrong target

The BBC’s now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it’s too ‘leftwing’.

Islam vs the West: The four biggest fallacies about Islam explained

Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?

A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic

Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting ‘Death to the IDF!’ Four months on, he’s bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant ‘Death to the Arabs!’

Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza

The BBC international editor is required to report what Hamas actually thinks. Otherwise he is not a journalist, he’s just another western propagandist.

Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted

Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as ‘terrorism’ to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate.

No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me

Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza’s children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies.

The Met police chief proves he’s as dishonest and racist as the force he leads

Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising ‘community tensions’. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind.

Who’s really encouraging attacks like the one on a synagogue? Look to our leaders

The attack in Manchester is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies.