Ending Israel
The genocidal settler colonial state, guilty of crimes as severe as those of the Nazis, won’t stop itself. How do we bring it to an end?
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Guantánamo: the source of so much of the 21st century’s depravity
Photos from the 43rd monthly global vigils for Guantánamo’s closure, marking an ongoing crime scene of extraordinary resonance.
Hamas agrees to disarm, but only if Israel leaves Gaza
Will it happen? Will the US restrain Israel if it refuses to abandon its obsessive commitment to the ongoing extermination of the Palestinian people?
Israel’s ghoulish settlers eye up Gaza for settlements
Despite it being an unprecedented site of genocidal slaughter, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Daniella Weiss and over half the Knesset want to colonize Gaza. Will anyone stop them?
Competing visions for Gaza’s future
Ongoing occupation and extermination on the one hand; sterilized techno-concentration camps on the other. Will Hamas’ dissolution of its government, in place since 2007, help?
Guantánamo vigils expose fake freedom from executive tyranny as the US turns 250
No celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence are deserved, when 15 men are still held at Guantánamo under a modern-day form of executive tyranny.
1,000 days of genocide in Gaza
A detailed overview of 33 months of unforgivable horrors, and how Gaza can legitimately be described as the modern-day equivalent of a Nazi death camp.
On UN Torture Day, don’t forget the victims at Guantánamo
Torture taints every aspect of this dire facility, and the lives of the 15 men still held, remembered today, on the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Keir Starmer: Empty shell resigns, soaked in genocide and authoritarianism
No one will miss Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation today, but it won’t save Labour, whose senior leadership all share his complicity in genocide and vile authoritarianism.
The Filton 4: sentenced for terrorism despite not being convicted of terrorism
I examine how, as with the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, amended terrorism legislation, from 2000 and 2021, is being used to falsely convict activists of terrorism.
The shameful revival of the Palestine Action terror ban
The Court of Appeal showed undue deference to the UK government, but the glaring problem is the Terrorism Act, and its definition of terrorism to include damage to property.
Filton 4 sentencing exposes UK establishment's “arbitrary justice” on behalf of Israel
Justice failed in the UK today, as four Palestine Action activists received long prison sentences for direct action to prevent a genocide, with added terrorism charges not disclosed at their trial.
The persistence of memory: the latest global vigils for Guantánamo’s closure
"In a time of universal deceit, even the act of remembering is a revolutionary act.”
Israel’s Supreme Court lifts the ban on ICRC visits to 9,000 Palestinian “security prisoners”
The ban, in place since Oct. 7, 2023 on the only international body that monitors prison conditions, has allowed the establishment of a sprawling network of torture prisons for Palestinians.
The Battle of the Beanfield at 41: UK state violence unleashed
The most violent police assault on civilians in modern UK history was 41 years ago today. I trace an authoritarian line from there to the current designation of anti-genocide activists as terrorists.
Israel and Gaza: “human animals”, “terror nests”, endless vengeance and death squads
Focusing on Israel’s ferociously genocidal defense minister Israel Katz, comparisons and contrasts with Yoav Gallant, and new revelations of Israel’s death squads in response to the Oct. 7 attacks.
The intractable search for peace in Gaza
Gaza’s colonial administrator supports Israel by insisting on Hamas’ disarmament, erasing Israel’s responsibility for 31 months of genocide and continuing the Palestinians' collective punishment.
Israel’s show trials and mass executions for Palestinians seized on Oct. 7, 2023
ICC seeks arrest warrant for Bezalel Smotrich, as Itamar Ben-Gvir, in charge of Israel’s prisons and hugely supportive of new laws approving the death penalty for Palestinians, evades accountability.
The Torture Drawings of Abu Zubaydah, Guantánamo’s “Forever Prisoner”
An exhibition in London reveals, first-hand, the horrors of the "war on terror", via drawings made by torture victim Abu Zubaydah. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
Judge blocks US sanctions on UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Judge Leon, in the District Court in Washington DC, thoroughly dismantled the Trump administration’s unjustifiable reasons for imposing sanctions on the indefatigable Special Rapporteur for Palestine.