Raffi Berg may be fighting in court for damages, but it’s really the BBC in the dock for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question.
Jonathan Cook: BBC’s Protection of Israel on Trial
Category: Great Britain
Why the Jury Were Right to Acquit Palestine Action
Jurors bravely set aside social conditioning, the instinct to defer to authority and media expectations. Instead they considered the actual evidence, reports Jonathan Cook.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office.
Craig Murray: London Opposes Review of Palestine Action Terrorist Proscription
Although the U.K. government continues in its attempt to prevent a challenge to Palestine Action being labeled a terrorist group, there are numerous reasons to believe they should be unsuccessful.
Westminster Group Shut Down over Israel Funding
A cross-party group of MPs and Lords has been shut down, after Declassified UK revealed it had taken money from an Israeli-owned weapons firm.
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
The upcoming United Nations General Assembly may show whether those nations who have pledged to support a Palestinian state really mean business.
West Asia is Lurching Toward War
Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.
‘Humanitarianism’ in Gaza Distracts From Justice
The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed.
Vijay Prashad: To Those Who Died So Young
The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to lead a people to sovereignty, the radical cannot be allowed to survive.
Why the British Abandoned Impeachment
Its decline coincided with the rise of another, more effective process by which high officials could be held accountable, writes Eliga Gould.