JF: Back in 2010 while working as a central government press and communications officer I interviewed one Manouche Shafik, then head of the now defunct Department For International Development. Fast forward fourteen years and I see her name again, this time at the heart of the maelstrom surrounding the current US student protests in support of the Palestinians that are […]
The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks. British […]
After dismantling a New York Times front page feature alleging “a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7” by Hamas, The Grayzone is demanding answers of the paper for its journalistic malpractice. The following was submitted to New York Times editors and lead author, Jeffrey Gettleman. The Grayzone has identified serious issues with the credibility of key sources quoted […]
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives. “It’s the kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” NYT journalist. THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the […]
Just like with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the British public cannot trust the media to provide accurate, critical or historically contextual coverage of the war on Gaza. RINTED in full by Jadaliyya, on October 24 Rami Ruhayem, a BBC correspondent based in Beirut, sent an extraordinary email to BBC director general Tim Davie, raising “the gravest […]
Jonathan Cook – ‘I sat down with Phil Miller of Declassified UK to talk about the ways the western media disguise genocide in Gaza’:
Hebrew Media: “Today marked the largest aerial attack on the ‘State of Israel’ since its inception.” Friend of BSNews Ibrahim Muhammad reports from Aleppo: Most of the Iranian missiles fell at the Nevatim base, which contains F35 warplanes. The Israeli “Nafatim” base is 1,100 km from Iranian territory, and the Revolutionary Guards conducted missile exercises on a model similar to […]
Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the Israeli lawyer at the center of the campaign accusing Hamas of systematic sexual violence on October 7, now stands accused by Israeli media of scamming donors and spreading misinformation. The allegations appeared just days after Elkayam-Levy received the prestigious Israel Prize. As the founder of the so-called Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women […]
As Israel attempts to draw the US into conflict with Iran, we ask: what’s next for the region? TNT Radio host Patrick Henningsen speaks with Middle East based journalist Leila Hatoum about the latest developments regarding Israel’s attack on the Iran embassy in Damascus and what the geopolitical ramifications might be for this act of aggression by an increasingly desperate Zionist regime […]
Has the Israeli government gone collectively insane? Can anyone put an end to the carnage? Over 33,000 Palestinians, including more than 14,000 children, brutality slaughtered since October. Who knows how many are still buried under the rubble? The official figure is estimated to be over 40,000. Thousands more have been maimed for life – children are being forced to have […]
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals. The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate […]
rogressive commentator Ana Kasparian recently appeared on the popular right-wing podcast PBD. The interview ranged over several subjects, but her most intense debate with the two hosts was about Israel’s assault on Gaza. Kasparian expressed horror at the civilian death toll, which she compared to historical atrocities like the Armenian genocide during and after World War I. In response, one of the […]
