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Six takeaways from the UK’s decision on arms sales to Israel the media are hiding

British Jewish leaders are incensed by the 8% cut in weapons to Israel. Judged by the very rules Starmer imposed on Labour, that makes him a proven antisemite.

Starmer’s purges of Labour have mutated into the arrest of Palestine supporters

Britain’s authoritarian new prime minister is expanding the scope of already draconian laws to redefine his critics as ‘supporters’ of terrorism.

Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israel

The Guardian columnist has to twist the story of the first Jew to escape Auschwitz because a true biography of Rudolf Vrba would expose the Zionist movement’s collusion with the Nazis.

First, Elon Musk made us pay for ‘free speech’. Now he decides who’s allowed it

The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there.

Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses don’t work

We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin.

Gaza’s official death toll is a lie. The casualty numbers are far, far higher

The figures have been stalled for months. The goal is to minimise Israel’s barbarism, while lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency.

More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own

Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the ‘consequences’.

Trump got a bloodied ear. US ‘political violence’ poses a far bigger danger to the rest of us

Biden and Trump are two rotten figureheads of a rotting empire. Ignore the tribal rhetoric: neither poses an existential threat. But the system behind them does.

Why the news media’s job is to groom us

The very different treatment of air strikes on Gaza and Ukraine reveal how the news media’s real job is not to inform us. It is to groom us.

In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible

Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars.

Complaints about Hamas using ‘human shields’ are the worst kind of bad faith

By celebrating the carnage in Gaza to free four Israeli captives, western politicians and media are treating Palestinians as sub-human – and enabling the genocide to continue.

Academia is only as free as powerful donors allow it to be

Two prestigious law reviews censor Palestinian scholar for proposing a legal framework that ties the Gaza genocide to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.

How the media allowed a single comma to distract from a ruling to stop genocide

The western media takes seriously a ‘fierce debate’ about a comma because it helps us to avoid confronting a simple truth: The monsters are us.

Under cover of ‘charity’ status, the Israel lobby is subverting UK politics

Charity Commission gives its stamp of approval to groups hounding Jewish critics out of the Labour party and assisting Israel in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel’s crimes are far worse than Hamas’

Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as “absurd and false” the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here’s why.

Why the media have failed Gaza

The media’s job is to create the impression of uncertainty, doubt and confusion. Our job is to explode that lie, denying them and the political class they protect an alibi.

The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face

The western media is pretending the West’s efforts to secure a ceasefire are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance.