That’s the unwritten rule for Britain’s media, writes Des Freedman.
Category: United Kingdon
Jonathan Cook: The British State Lost the Argument
Tony Greenstein’s acquittal was not a message the state — or the billionaire-owned media — wanted publicised.
US ‘Terror’ Label on Palestine Action Threatens Speech
Critics said the designation, based on a Bush-era 9/11 executive order, puts pro-Palestine civil disobedience on equal footing with Al-Qaeda, Julia Conley reports.
UK Funded Therapy for Israeli Soldiers
British taxpayers subsidised “therapeutic healing” for IDF soldiers after Israeli charity claimed Gift Aid, Martin Williams reports.
‘Barclays 5′ Palestine Activists Won’t Be Tried as Terrorists
A U.K. judge ruled Friday that the damage protesters caused at a bank branch was not enough to merit terrorism sentencing, Dania Akkad reports. Sentencing is on Sept. 4.
UK Jury Refuses to Convict 7 From Palestine Action
After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges of organizing a raid on an Israeli weapons plant and the defendants were discharged Wednesday.
BBC Censored Film on British Army Killing Child
Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972, reports Anne Cadwallader.
Oil Majors Profits Doubling With Iran War
Shell posted nearly $10 billion in second-quarter results as consumers struggled with higher living costs and the U.K. suffered a deadly heatwave, Jake Johnson reports.
War Crimes Case Re-Opened in Britain
The Metropolitan Police has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into U.K. nationals who fought in Gaza for Israel, John McEvoy reports.
Five More Palestine Activists Face ‘Terrorist’ Sentencing
Defendants were not told that a criminal damage case could carry a terrorism connection until after they were found guilty, reports John McEvoy.