As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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‘Armistice Weekend?’ They just made it up
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes the off-the-cuff improvisation of new 'rules' used by the political class and its supporters that are currently being deployed in support of Israel's bloody war on Gaza
Effigies of dead children are laid out in Trafalgar Square during demonstrations calling for a ceasefire, November 4 2023
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UNABLE to win arguments, centrists like to rely on “the rules” instead — even if that means making up “the rules.”
Take the attempt to stop the End the Siege of Gaza march this Saturday. The leadership of the Labour and Conservative parties and much of the national media want to back the IDF’s war on Gaza, so they oppose the march.
But they are struggling to find persuasive arguments to get people to back a war which so clearly seems to kill so many more civilians — including children — than Hamas fighters.
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