'Home truths' from Melanie Phillips convey one message: Israel will always be at war (David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 25 November 2025) West Bank: Israeli forces execute two Palestinians at point-blank range (Middle East Eye, 28 November 2025) Israeli settlers who breached Syria border returned by military (Middle East Eye, 28 November 2025) AI-powered surveillance … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
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Inversion Of Reality The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’?
Inversion Of Reality The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? By Media Lens 12 November [Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. Run by writers David Cromwell and David Edwards, it is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system.] This follows on from a previous piece on the supposed … Continue reading Inversion Of Reality The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’?
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The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere: while problematic for many reasons, Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza appears to spell the end of the Israeli government’s expulsion fantasies (Meron Rapoport, +972, 2 October 2025) Israel's genocide in Gaza never stopped, but UK media have enabled this … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
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UN OCHA snapshot on Gaza Strip (24 September 2025) Trump promises Arab, Muslim leaders he won’t let Israel annex the West Bank (Politico, 24 September 2025) UN General Assembly 2025: Day two brings further condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza (Yasmine El-Sabawi, Middle East Eye, 24 September 2025) Final goodbye: MEE reporters on the pain … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
Recognising Palestine
At a meeting in Algiers on 15 November 1988, the Palestine National Council, then led by Yasser Arafat, declared the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, with its capital in Jerusalem. In response, by the end of 1988, 78 states had recognised it and granted it full … Continue reading Recognising Palestine
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How to stop Israel from starving Gaza (Professor Jeffrey Sachs & Sybil Fares (Other News, 1 September 2025) As Israeli students return to classrooms, Gaza's schools lie in ruins (Middle East Eye, 1 September 2025) How disability can become a death sentence in Gaza today (Penny Green & Grace Spence Green, Middle East Eye, 1 … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
BBC on Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards
LA comment: reading press headlines over the years, you could be forgiven for thinking the BBC ‘has a problem with Israel’ and is biased in favour of Palestinians. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this report shows. CfMM’s new report concludes that the BBC is systematically biased against Palestinians in Gaza war coverage. Analysis … Continue reading BBC on Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards
ARMS FACTORY 10 HELD FOR A YEAR WITHOUT TRIAL
Morning Star 16 August 2025 TEN out of 24 pro-Palestine activists charged over a break-in at an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol have been held in prison for a year without trial. Eight have been in custody for nine months, with most of the Filton 24 set to be imprisoned for more than two years … Continue reading ARMS FACTORY 10 HELD FOR A YEAR WITHOUT TRIAL
Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation
Official JVL Statement Labour Affairs supports this official statement by Jewish Voice for Labour Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation Sat 28 Jun 2025 Palestine Action is not a Terrorist Organisation There is an overwhelming consensus that terrorism involves the use or threat of violence against civilians for a political purpose. So says JUSTICE, the … Continue reading Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation
Podcast with Philip O’Connor
Workers Party podcast with Philip O’Connor Hosted by Dr Michael Scott (ex-BA officer), together with former UK Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford. The podcast was made at the end of May, before the latest shenanigans in Brussels/Strasburg especially the Martin conflict with his "allies" and Kallas's attack on Ireland. No2Nato EP33 | The EU and … Continue reading Podcast with Philip O’Connor
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Gaza: Israeli soldiers admit to deliberately killing unarmed aid seekers (Middle East Eye, 27 June 2025) Legal experts tell Fifa Israel is breaking international law as it considers sanctions (Oscar Rickett, Middle East Eye, 26 June 2025) New Israeli directive expedites ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta (Yuval Abraham & Basel Adra, +972, 25 June 2025) … Continue reading Palestine Links
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Israel's new model for weaponised aid (Amira Nimerawi, Sara el-Solh, James Smith & Mads Gilbert, Middle East Eye, 28 May 2025) UN and aid groups condemn US-Israeli initiative after deadly scenes in Gaza (Middle East Eye, 28 May 2025) Outrage as Netanyahu says no mass starvation in Gaza, suggests Palestinians are overweight … Continue reading Palestine Links
KneeCap Statement
STATEMENT: They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide. Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria. Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or … Continue reading KneeCap Statement
Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing
Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah Israel is starving the entire population of Gaza - to the point of death, for a growing number of Palestinians. There is not a single place in the world where starvation is an inevitability: not after major environmental disasters, amid drought and crop failure, or during armed conflict and … Continue reading Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing
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Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing (Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith & Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025) Syria’s Druze fearful after deadly attacks on Damascus suburbs (Madeline Edwards, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025) Amnesty International: Israel committing 'livestreamed genocide' in Gaza (Mera Aladam, Middle East … Continue reading Palestine Links
Palestine Links April 2025
Israel is working overtime to hide its crimes (David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 March 2025) Palestinian captives in Israeli prison face 'health disaster', advocacy group warns (Middle East Eye, 27 March 2025) Israel parliament passes bill bringing judicial appointments under political control (Middle East Eye, 27 March 2025) How operating drones became a death … Continue reading Palestine Links April 2025
Palestine Links, March 2025
Palestinians in Egypt fear for return amid Trump uncertainty (Reem Sleem, Electronic Intifada, 27 February 2025) ICC urged to investigate Biden’s personal role in Gaza genocide (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 26 February 2025) Tough return to harsh reality (Abdallah al-Naami, Electronic Intifada, 26 February 2025) By pulling Gaza film, BBC shows it cannot stand up … Continue reading Palestine Links, March 2025
Use of the Terrorism Acts against Palestine supporters
Labour Affairs Group There are now four main pieces of counter-terrorism legislation: the Terrorism Act 2000, the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001, the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, and the Terrorism Act 2006. Plus The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (which includes the “Prevent” programme). In fact this list may not be exhaustive, as the anti-terror legislation keeps … Continue reading Use of the Terrorism Acts against Palestine supporters
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