London, 1st May 2024- This week, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) wrote to eighty-two British universities alerting them of the potential risk of criminal liability over any investments held in both arms companies and Israeli settlements. The letters inform universities that profiting off investments made in companies supplying weapons to a military that uses them in the commission of […]
‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile. On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building not marked on any map. Even the […]
Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine. Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif), Ismail Haniyeh On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya SINWAR (Head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) […]
While none of the G7 nations recognize Palestine, more than 140 of the 193 members of the United Nations do. Ireland, Spain and Norway on Wednesday said they would officially recognize Palestine as a state from next week, in a diplomatic move that triggered fury in Israel. In Dublin, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said Palestine deserved the same right […]
In confecting a media row about the policing of London marches against genocide, the Israel lobby knew it would score a victory, whatever happened. A gruesome discovery was made in Gaza last weekend. Some 300 Palestinian bodies – of men, women and children – were unearthed from an unmarked mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Even […]
Israel is guilty of the same massacres and atrocities it has accused Palestinians of committing on October 7. My family survived one of those massacres in the village of Deir Yassin on this day 76 years ago. ABOVE: THE AUTHOR’S LATE GRANDMOTHER, FATIMA ASAD, TAKEN AT THE 50TH COMMEMORATION OF THE MASSACRE IN DEIR YASSIN. THIS WAS FROM THE AUTHOR’S […]
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 […]
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 […]
