Category: Israel

Burnham to face pressure at Labour conference to recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide

Grassroot groups preparing to put pressure on PM to break with Starmer policy and impose full arms embargo on IsraelGrassroot Labour groups are gearing up for a conference showdown with Andy Burnham over Gaza, as the party’s...

Read More

Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine

In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade banMore than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in...

Read More

Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’

Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK “the Islamic republic of Britain” in a...

Read More

Even if the Iran war is over, it made its mark: the fear, killing and upheaval were all normalised | Nesrine Malik

As the world waited for rational outcomes from irrational players, the people being bombed were forced to adjust to the fact of terror as part of daily life“Humans take a lot of killing,” wrote Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes....

Read More
Loading