There’s no ‘honest mistake’ defence for the US and Israel when the same mistakes keep happening. ‘Honest mistakes’ can’t be a pattern of behaviour – the killing of innocents, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Palestine.

The US, Israel and the UK are the triumvirate of villains of the climate talks. Their armed forces are the most polluting on the planet – and the goal at COP26 is to keep that fact a closely guarded secret.

Glasgow university has found itself in the eye of a storm, accused of ‘capitulating’ in two separate cases that have undermined academic research into the activities of Israel and its supporters.

The reality is that Israeli leaders are conflating their own terror at being held to account for their crimes with an imagined ‘terrorism’ being waged by lawyers and researchers trying to show the reality of occupation.

Amazon and Google aren’t just doing business with Israel. Through Project Nimbus, they are actively helping to build and improve the technological infrastructure Israel needs to oppress Palestinians.

A British university dismissed Prof David Miller after he exposed networks of influence promoting Islamophobia in the UK that included the very pro-Israel lobby groups that had worked so strenuously to get him fired.

Far from saving lives, as Congressional leaders claim, Iron Dome is another weapon in Israel’s arsenal to keep Palestinians subdued, imprisoned and quiet – and in a wider military strategy to enforce US global domination.

Keir Starmer’s goal was to perform the last rites for Corbyn and the party’s left at the Labour conference. Instead, members roundly slapped him in the face with a motion declaring Israel an apartheid state and demanding sanctions.

Ever the bad loser, Washington will be tempted to crush the Taliban with sanctions and covert operations, unleashing more chaos.

The Palestinian escapees broke out of their cell into the far larger prison that is their homeland under occupation. Every minute they can’t be found, Israel’s system of control is defied. Both Israel and Palestinians understand what is at stake.

Kabul’s rapid fall proves the US had no allies in Afghanistan outside of a tiny elite keen to enrich itself, protected by US firepower and given an alibi by western liberals who assumed their own simplistic identity politics was ripe for export.

The truth is that both kinds of policing towards Palestinian citizens – the violent policing of dissent, and the lack of policing of crime – are rooted in the same, ugly ideology of Jewish supremacism.

Masked Israeli soldiers will continue to terrorise Palestinian children in the middle of the night, despite the latest court ruling, but new military jargon will be found to disguise the true purpose of these home invasions

Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column, desperately trying to breathe life into the long-cold cadaver of the two-state solution, exposes the unthinking colonial racism that still dominates our liberal media.

Netanyahu tried to shut down TikTok during last month’s attack on Gaza. Now Israel’s courts have given the government a ‘blank check’ to muzzle online dissent, human rights groups have warned.

Ignore all the talk of a historic, post-Netanyahu era in which settlers and ‘Arabs’ work together in government. The new coalition will quickly turn sour – and Israel’s large Palestinian minority will, as always, pay a heavy price.

The inciting cause of Palestinian anger won’t go away. Resentment will build till it finds release again, in protests or rockets. What the west mystifies as ‘the cycle of violence’ is really the cycle of Israeli aggression and western complicity.

Coexistence in the “mixed cities” was always an illusion, one the protests finally smashed. Coexistence worked for one ethnic group only, Jews. It was built on the continuing Judaization of these historic Palestinian communities to erase their Palestinian heritage and drive out their Palestinian populations. 

The Israeli police and the far-right are teaching a new generation of Palestinian citizens a lesson in Jewish-state civics: you will pay a deeply painful price for demanding the rights we pretend to the world you already have.