Palestine
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Genocide in Gaza: The BBC’s Self-Inflicted ‘Trust Crisis’
BBC News regularly proclaims its supposed editorial principles of fearless, independent, impartial, fair and accurate journalism. In a January 2023 speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group in London, then BBC Chairman Richard Sharp boasted that BBC journalism is the ‘global gold standard’ of credible news reporting. Continue reading
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The Zionist Genocide Against Palestinians Began in the 1880s—Not in 1947, and Not in 2023
The genocide against Palestinians is often framed as having begun in 1947–48 during the Nakba, when Zionist militias forcibly expelled over 750,000 Palestinians, massacred entire villages, and systematically destroyed more than 500 Palestinian communities. Others attempt to situate its origins even later, as an escalation in October 2023, when Israel launched its most devastating military… Continue reading
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Gaza and the logic of necropolitics: Sovereignty measured by killing
As Gaza’s death toll rises, the concept of necropolitics is explored, revealing a deliberate strategy of destruction and disposability, where “Israel’s” sovereignty is defined through the erasure of Palestinian life. Continue reading
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The New Dark Age
CAIRO, Egypt — It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern Sinai of Egypt are 2,000 trucks filled with sacks of flour, water tanks, canned food, medical supplies, tarps and fuel. The trucks idle under the scorching sun… Continue reading
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Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack
As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, western media and politicians are tentatively starting to speak up Continue reading
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Brilliant! Joe Sacco’s ‘War on Gaza’
Friday, 16 May 2025 — The Comics Journal ‘I’m doing the work I need to do to live with myself’: Joe Sacco on democracy, genocide, and drawing the truth Zach Rabiroff | May 7, 2025 “Is it genocide, or is it self-defense? Let’s make everyone happy and say it’s both. In that case we’ll need Continue reading
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UK doctor suspended over Gaza posts
And since 2 March, Israel has prevented all medications, medical supplies, food, fuel and basic essentials from entering Gaza, plunging two million people, half of them children, into a deepening catastrophe. However, if you are a doctor in the UK, and you express outrage about the genocide, you might lose your job with the National… Continue reading
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Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force”
The scenes of mass displacement on Wednesday were like a slow-moving human flood flowing through destroyed streets. Continue reading
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Breaking news and analysis on day 587 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — The Electronic Intifada Scheduled for May 15, 2025 Your gift supports The Electronic Intifada’s independent journalism on Palestine: • Donate by credit card, ApplePay, PayPal, Venmo or US bank account via Kindful: https://bit.ly/EIKindful Continue reading
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Israeli Forces Bombed Two Gaza Hospitals in One Day
By targeting European Hospital and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the Israeli military is further decimating Gaza’s already devastated medical system. Continue reading
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Jeremy Bowen’s interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful – and he knows it
There was no excuse for the BBC to follow Israel in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism. This kind of craven journalism just makes Israel’s job of genocide easier Continue reading
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The UK government battles a High Court legal challenge against selling weapon parts to Israel
A four-day judicial review was set to take place, as Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq challenges the legality of the UK selling parts for Israeli F-35 fighter jets, used to commit genocide in Gaza. The British Labour government claims that blocking the sale will damage international peace and security by not allowing a regime led… Continue reading
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‘I’m doing the work I need to do to live with myself’: Joe Sacco on democracy, genocide, and drawing the truth Zach Rabiroff
If an artist can be measured in part by their capacity to look truth squarely in the eye without flinching, let it be said that Joe Sacco is an artist. For more than three decades, Sacco has been perhaps the most prominent and influential cartoonist-journalist in comics. His Palestine, published in 1993, was a probing… Continue reading
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UK Lawyers for Israel suggests Gaza starvation reduces obesity
The UKLFI head Jonathan Turner comments on impending famine in Gaza, claiming it’ll help reduce obesity and thus increase life expectancy Continue reading
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Today is the day! Help stop UK Arms Exports
Update on Stop the UK’s profit from war I’m writing from the steps of court as we head into the first day of the High Court hearing. With our Palestinian colleagues at Al-Haq, we are demanding an end to the UK’s complicity in the ongoing Gazan genocide. Continue reading
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Watch: Gaza expresses gratitude to Yemen
From Gaza, Palestinians express their gratitude for the unwavering Yemeni support to the Strip since the beginning of the genocide. Despite the Israeli and American aggression on Yemen, it did not waver under international pressure and stood strong by the Palestinian cause. Continue reading
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Israel’s Crimes in the West Bank: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2025)
In 1948, the newly proclaimed Israeli government seized 78% of Palestinian land and expelled more than half of the population (750,00 people) from their villages and towns. This act disregarded United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), which called for the termination of the colonial British Mandate and the partition of Palestine into a Palestinian… Continue reading
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🚨Origins of Israel’s atrocity propaganda
It’s day 580 of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Join us at 5 pm UK time for the weekly livestream from The Electronic Intifada. Continue reading
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Revealed: Britain’s Labour Government Sent 8,000 “Munitions of War” to Israel After Saying It Had Stopped
After the UK adopted a new policy that it would not allow any weapons shipments that could be used in Gaza, Britain’s Labour government allowed the export of 8,630 separate munitions to Israel. Continue reading
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Sham US-Russia Iran Talks, Moscow Aids Ibrahim Traore, 2.2M Starved, Forced To Israeli Camp
Planned Failure: US – Russia Iran Talks, Moscow Sends Russian Commandos to Burkina Faso To Protect Ibrahim Traore After Foiled Coup Attempts By Disgruntled West And Internal Dissidents, 2.2M Starved Gazans Are Forced To Cramped Israeli Camp With Gaza Coming Under Indefinite Occupation. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 