There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Are Palestinians becoming Israel’s ‘untouchables’?
Israel’s claims to be a democracy only have any validity if you turn a ‘Nelson’s eye’ to the Palestinians it rules over without rights or votes. British Labour Party members must not be silent on this injustice, writes HUGH LANNING
Two Palestinian girls stand next to a pile of rubbish in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, and general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouti (pic: Aude/Creative Commons)
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
WHEN interviewed on British TV by Andrew Marr, Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein likened Israel making the vaccine available to Palestinians to the Palestinians looking after dolphins — in essence equating Palestinians to animals, not disguised by the choice of animal.
This is not an isolated instance of Israelis talking about Palestinians as lesser people, not just an occupied people, but in some way a caste that doesn’t need to be treated in the same way as other human beings — as “untouchables.”
Israel believes it to be perfectly acceptable not only to withhold the vaccine, but also to dig up Palestinian lands, rip out their trees, maim and kill their youth because they are not entitled to be treated with the same respect as you would expect to be treated yourself.
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Israel’s messianic settler regime has moved beyond military containment to mass ethnic cleansing, making any two-state solution based on differential rights impossible — we must support the Palestinian demand for decolonisation, writes HUGH LANNING
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Starmer is going to go down in Labour history as as much a warmonger as Tony Blair – and the issue will prove his nemesis, says HUGH LANNING
Labour must recognise Israel’s true aims of total colonisation of Palestine and massive regional expansion — and therefore end the arms sales and trade deals that enable the destruction of any two-state solution, writes HUGH LANNING
