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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.

How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel’s atrocities

The news cycle has rules every rookie journalist understands. When the media choose to break them, you can be sure it is for entirely non-journalistic reasons

Trump’s visit proved the utter corruption of our political and media class

Aside from the spectacle of our leaders openly prostrating before Trump, the truth of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US was mostly found in unscripted moments around his visit.

The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West

Western elites don’t care what you think or say, so long as you don’t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet.

Nothing the Met says about the Palestine Action demo should be trusted

Why is the Met blaming protesters for ‘wasting’ its resources on arresting ‘terrorist’ pensioners? There’s a proper address for its grievances: Starmer’s authoritarian, genocide-complicit government.

Even the media’s Gaza ‘investigations’ hide the real story of Israel’s atrocities

The atrocity news treadmill makes sure western media are so busy chasing after Israel’s latest crime in Gaza they never pause long enough to piece together the bigger story of genocide.

The police pulled over my car. The lack of a reason should worry us all

The government and police appear keen to expand the ‘hostile environment’ policy for immigrants to encompass the British public – and deter political dissent on Israel’s genocide.

The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists

The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East.

How the ‘blood libel’ paradox keeps the West silent on Israel’s genocide

The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. The painful reality is that, through Israel, the West can dress up boilerplate colonialism as a ‘Jewish’ project.

No, Piers. It was a genocide in Gaza from day one. Here’s why

Some 17 years ago an Israeli general and government minister threatened Gaza with a “Shoah” – a word until then reserved for the Holocaust. The trajectory in Gaza has been unwavering ever since.

On Gaza, the goal is to confuse us about where rights end and criminality begins

An Israeli Jew is charged over referring to ‘Nazi Israel’. An anti-genocide protester risks arrest as a terrorist for waving a Palestinian flag. Starmer is intentionally stoking a climate of fear.