Israel’s new moves to airbrush the occupation
30th October 2019
Jonathan Cook highlights Israeli moves to make the occupation of the West Bank permanent by legalising land theft by Jewish settlers who would then be treated as “locals”, in an attempt to bypass the international prohibition on altering the demography of occupied land. Read more […]
Assange extradition: What happened to British justice and fair play?
24th October 2019
Stuart Littlewood views the denial of justice shown to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a London court this week where Judge Vanessa Baraitser has been criticised for lack of impartiality and for appearing to take instructions from US government personnel in the courtroom. Read more […]
Exploiting the ignorant: Singer-actress Demi Lovato’s “pilgrimage” to Apartheid Israel
19th October 2019
Lawrence Davidson examines singer-actress Demi Lovato’s striking ignorance that led her to being hoodwinked into going on an all-expenses-paid “pilgrimage” to Apartheid Israel, and warns those embarking on “Christain tourism” not to let themselves be tools of Israeli propaganda. Read more […]
Israel prepares to turn Bedouin citizens into refugees in their own country
17th October 2019
Jonathan Cook highlights Israel’s policy of forcing its Bedouin citizens into ghettos as a step towards their ethnic cleansing, most recently a plan to forcibly evict nearly 40,000 Bedouin from their homes into ghettos — “the largest expulsion in decades”. Read more […]
Donald Trump, the “Christian warrior”, and his bigoted religious adviser, Robert Jeffress
10th October 2019
Lawrence Davidson views the opportunism of President Trump who has appointed one Robert Jeffress as his “top religious adviser” thereby tying himself to Jeffress’s particular set of bigoted opinions: abortion is evil, same-sex relations are evil, Israeli racism is just fine. Read more […]
Why Israel is struggling to find a way out of its political deadlock
4th October 2019
Jonathan Cook argues that despite the failure of Israel’s main political parties to form a government following September’s elections, “there is strong unity in Israel – over shared, deeply ugly attitudes towards Palestinians, whether citizens or those under occupation”. Read more […]
