Investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator and public speaker. Recognized as an authority on Guantánamo and the “war on terror.” Co-founder, Close Guantánamo and We Stand With Shaker, singer/songwriter (The Four Fathers).
My considered analysis of how and why the genocidal State of Israel must be brought to an end, a conclusion, drawn from analogies with the Nazis, from Israel’s entire 78-year blood-soaked history, and from the evidence of the last 1,045 days of relentless, remorseless military extermination, and deliberate, life-ending deprivation across the whole of Palestinian society, that a state that behaves…
22 photos from, and my report about the 43rd “First Wednesday” monthly global vigils for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which took place across the US and worldwide on and around Wednesday August 5, 2026. In the accompanying text, I summarize the history of the vigils, and discuss the significance of Guantánamo beyond its shamefully enduring manifestation as the last…
My response to today’s claim, trumpeted by Donald Trump, that the Board of Peace — the body set up under his administration last October to implement a ceasefire and supervise the future of Gaza — has “reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all the other armed groups in Gaza.” Typically for Trump, this was a simplistic reading of an agreement made by Hamas to hand…
As Israeli settlers — including the far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, and settler fanatic Daniella Weiss — hold a rally by the perimeter fence of the Gaza Strip, demanding approval for the construction of new Israeli settlements, I compare their callous indifference to the genocidal wasteland right next to them to the similar indifference of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared…
An update on the dire situation in the Gaza Strip, after 1,012 days of genocide, as the Israeli-engineered humanitarian crisis continues to make a mockery of the ceasefire declared nine months ago, and as competing visions for Gaza’s future seek to exclude the Palestinians from having any meaningful say in their existence. On the ground in Gaza, the situation remains dire, with communicable…
21 photos from, and my report about the 42nd “First Wednesday” monthly global vigils for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which took place across the US and around the world on and around Wednesday July 1, 2026. In the text accompanying the article, I discuss the proximity of this month’s vigils to July 4, and, this year, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the…
Marking 1,000 days of Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, I examine how recognition of the genocide developed in the first few months of Israel’s unprecedented and relentless violent assault on Gaza, run through some of the almost innumerable horrors that took place until the ceasefire was declared last October, and examine the numerous distortions of history and the history of warfare…
In the last of three articles (two here, and one on Substack), about the recent concerted assault on the direct action group Palestine Action in the UK courts, I follow up on my first article, about the sentencing of the Filton 4 last Friday, with a detailed analysis of how the judge, Mr. Justice Johnson, was able to sentence the four activists for terrorism, when they weren’t convicted of…
My analysis of yesterday’s dispiriting but ultimately predictable ruling by the Court of Appeal in London, reinstating the government’s proscription, as a terrorist organization, of the stunningly successful direct action group Palestine Action, which has been extraordinarily tenacious in its efforts to destroy or disable genocidal weapons produced in the UK by Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest arms…
Photos from, and my report about the 41st monthly global vigils for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which took place across the US and around the world on and around June 3, 2026. In the text accompanying the article, I discuss the importance of remembering Guantánamo (which is so largely forgotten) via my interpretation of a well-known quote — "In a time of universal…