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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.

Is a Glastonbury chant the real problem, or Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza?

Israel, Starmer’s government and the media are fomenting a moral panic about words ‘glorifying violence’ towards the IDF, while glorifying the IDF’s all-too-real violence towards Palestinians.

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel’s genocide

In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

Piers Morgan just can’t stop himself inciting against the Palestinian people

Through his dehumanisation of Palestinians, his racist incitements and mindless conflation of “Israelis” and “Jews”, Morgan continues to add fuel to the fire of genocide.

Israel is fully integrating its Gaza ‘food aid hubs’ into the genocide

Israel has been caught once again in a lie. For a genocidal state, there are no red lines. No one should be surprised that Israel is using its bogus ‘aid system’ to lure Palestinians into a death trap.

A short guide on how to starve a population to death

Your ‘aid’ system will lead to chaos, as desperate, starving people fight for food. That’s great. They look like a swarming mass of the very ‘human animals’ you were talking about from the start.

Israel’s claim that ‘Hamas is stealing aid’ is patently a lie. Here’s why

Western journalists – having promoted Israel’s lies for more than a year and half – have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide.

Jeremy Bowen’s interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful – and he knows it

There was no excuse for the BBC to follow Israel in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism. This kind of craven journalism just makes Israel’s job of genocide easier.

Theroux’s film on Israel’s violent settlers was a mirror. Resist the calls to look away

For once, the BBC aired a documentary showing Israeli society’s dark underbelly. The backlash is not because Louis Theroux got it wrong. It’s because his film tells us far too much about ourselves.