Ibaitik Itsasora
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In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.
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Russia is not Enemy@RussiaIsntEnemy
“Einstein said, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” This statement reflects the understanding that a third world war could mean the end of civilization. Today, this realization should restrain us from taking extremely dangerous actions in the international arena that threaten our modern civilization.” – President Putin 2018
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Russia is not Enemy@RussiaIsntEnemy
“Russia’s concept for the use of nuclear weapons does not include a preventive strike. Our doctrine is one of a retaliatory strike. This means that we would only strike back when it becomes clear that an attack on Russian territory is underway. Of course, this would lead to a global catastrophe, but we cannot be the ones who initiate it.
Yes, in such a scenario, we are essentially waiting for someone to use nuclear weapons against us first, and we do nothing until then. But the aggressor must know that retaliation is inevitable, that they will be destroyed, and we are the victims of aggression and, like martyrs, would go to heaven. But they will simply croak, because they won’t even have time to repent” – President Putin 2018
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984319392331579671
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She nailed it , Brilliantly Eloquent! dehumanization of Palestinians.
From the very first moment of the Gaza Genocide, Ana stood with the victims, telling the truth.
Ana Kasparian
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983784531577507999
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China “silently” launched its own alternative to SWIFT — Renminbi Digital that bypasses the dollar system uses digital yuan
This platform is already operational in Russia, ASEAN countries, and the Middle East
Many speculate that its turnover is expected to exceed $90 billion by the end of 2025
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Caroline Willeman, Doctors Without Borders project coordinator in Gaza, warned today that Israel continues to use aid as a weapon of war against Gaza. Willeman said that the humanitarian situation in the enclave has not improved much, as shortages of water and shelter persist. The Medical Relief Society in Gaza said the health system is collapsing beyond repair, warning that almost half of all kidney patients in the territory have already died because of Israel’s blockade.
President Lukashenko powerfully defends Russia’s stance on Ukraine — reminding the world that it was Ukrainian nationalists who burned Russians alive in Odessa and began the bloodshed in Donbass.
Moscow’s response was not aggression, but a duty to protect its people and the truth.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983798273505649126
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Here’s the raw truth the Western media won’t touch.
Back in 2008, US Senator Bill Bradley called NATO’s expansion a colossal screw-up.
He said it broke promises made to Gorbachev.
Bradley warned it’d backfire, locking us into a cycle of hostility with Russia,and look where we are now.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983662856634822718
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA):
The amount of aid that has entered the Gaza Strip since the implementation of the latest ceasefire agreement is less than half of what was agreed upon.
The needs in Gaza are enormous, and a comprehensive relief plan must be implemented to ensure the entry of aid at the level stipulated in the agreement — unlike what is happening now.
There is an urgent need to rehabilitate UNRWA facilities in Gaza so the agency can carry out its work efficiently.
The agency is the largest humanitarian organization in the Strip, employing 12,000 staff members who have continued to perform their duties throughout the war.
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THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A SITTING UN COMMISSIONER HAS EVER SAID THIS
ISRAEL IS CRUMBLING BEFORE OUR EYES…!!
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983882369888108771
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Omar Baddar dismantles the ‘ancient conflict’ myth and exposes the modern reality of Israel’s apartheid.
He proves how Palestinian life is considered disposable in a system of total military domination.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983858384618090547
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Despite being under crippling U.S. sanctions that have devastated its economy and blocked access to vital imports, Venezuela has sent 46 tons of humanitarian aid — including food, medicine, and emergency supplies — to Cuba and Jamaica following the recent hurricane.
The aid mission, coordinated by Venezuela’s Civil Protection Agency and Bolivarian Armed Forces, highlights how a sanctioned nation continues to stand in solidarity with its neighbors, while wealthier Western nations remain absent from the relief effort.
Officials said the mission reflects the values of ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) — mutual aid and sovereignty among nations resisting U.S. hegemony.
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Furkan Gözükara
@GozukaraFurkan
Shapiro is a Zionist, not some ‘conservative’…
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983897187135168991
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“Well-known journalist Chris Hedges, whose talk scheduled to be delivered at the National Press Club was suddenly cancelled, was confronted by the ABC’s Late Night Live host David Marr in an unexpectedly ferocious interview. One reader took exception to this.”
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Open letter to David Marr on his interview with Chris Hedges
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Open letter to David Marr on his interview with Chris Hedges
(https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/open-letter-to-david-marr-on-his-interview-with-chris-hedges/)
October 31, 2025
Well-known journalist Chris Hedges, whose talk scheduled to be delivered at the National Press Club was suddenly cancelled, was confronted by the ABC’s Late Night Live host David Marr in an unexpectedly ferocious interview. One reader took exception to this.
Dear David,
I am writing to you as a respected senior journalist to express my disappointment at the hatchet job interview you conducted with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges in the wake of the cancellation by the National Press Club of the invitation to him to speak there on Monday, 20 October.
I am disappointed because this interview was marred (no pun intended!) by what I consider an otherwise good record in consistently bringing the horrors being committed by Israel against the people of Gaza to the attention of your listeners.
You tried unsuccessfully to shake Chris from his assertion that the Western mainstream media have betrayed Palestinian journalists and amplified the Israeli narrative or hasbara. These journalists, incredibly brave professionals of Gaza, are the only source of news on the ground about the genocide being committed by the Israel Defence Force, supported materially and diplomatically by the US and its allies, including Australia.
This is because Israel refuses to allow other journalists into that now mostly destroyed strip of land. These incredible journalists stay there under the bombs, along with their people, suffering starvation, deprivation of shelter, healthcare and all the basics for sustaining life. They stay there despite the terrible dangers because of their fierce commitment to getting the truth of Israel’s crimes and the courage of the Palestinians out to the world.
Hedges accuses the Western media of burying the truth by constantly highlighting and headlining the lies promulgated by the Israeli military to contradict them. This emphasis and bias is not reduced by the frame “Israel says”.
You came out fighting from the start. In a voice dripping with supercilious sarcasm, you challenged Chris on the sponsorship of his visit to Australia by an advocacy organisation for Palestine. Underlying your challenge was the central tenet of establishment journalism: “objectivity”; that the ideal journalist has no standpoint, no values, no perspective. Or at least s/he casts them aside while working professionally. That somehow the invitation to deliver the Edward Said Memorial Lecture from the Australian Friends of Palestine Association in Adelaide invalidated Chris’s reporting or comments.
As a former media critic on ABC Media Watch and a sophisticated journalist, you should know that no one can be outside their own perspective. The obligation of journalists is to be conscious of, and explicit about, their values and perspective, and be rigorous with the accuracy and factual basis of their reporting.
Closely related to this concept of “objectivity” is the concept of “balance”, reporting the views of the various “sides” in a contested issue. In trying to defend your profession and the National Press Club, you pressed Chris to admit that the National Press Club had hosted speakers “hostile” or “unfriendly” to Israel, as if this was the key issue. Chris asserted that telling the truth about Israel’s onslaught on Gaza was the issue. While agreeing that the views of key parties had to be reported, he repeatedly asserted the centrality of truth of what is going on. “Our job is to report the truth.” Simply giving space to various viewpoints doesn’t cut it as a journalist. A professional journalist must test these various narratives against the truth..
It seems that Chris’s cogent challenge to the mainstream media’s reporting on Israel and Gaza really got under your skin. Your treasured liberal media and profession were under attack! You sure lost your cool, Chris kept his. Again and again, he had to patiently correct your various erroneous statements of what he said or what happened with the National Press Club. In seeking to defend your profession, you plaintively asked if the mainstream reporting hadn’t improved through the two years of the genocide in Gaza. You disingenuously saw no significance in Chris’s critique about headlining stories with IDF lies, even if expanding on the truth in the body of the story. Nor in the significance of the regular lies by Israeli authorities, “adjusted” several days later. You are a sophisticated skilled journalist and media critic. You know that these devices shape the news and its impact. Such defensiveness!
Clearly, other listeners were also angered by the interview. Later in the week, you responded to what you described as “a lot of you [who] were disappointed” with your interview with Chris. However, despite the various errors you made in the interview, you were unapologetic in your response. With your liberal complacency unpunctured by Chris’s thorough deflection of your attacks, you doubled down, defending your conduct of the interview. In your elite media tones, you claimed to have simply “quizzed Chris on the evidence” for his assertions. You proclaimed that “on Late Night Live, we are as committed as ever to exploring tough issues that matter right now”.
It is such a pity that in your anxiety to deny the shortcomings of the mainstream media identified by Chris, you failed to ask the key questions. By focusing on Chris and seeking to tarnish his credibility as a journalist, you totally ignored the central issue: the cancellation of the National Press Club’s invitation to him to speak and what led to the cancellation.
The questions asked are central to journalism. Asking the hard ones is what a brave, truthful, candid journalist does. With this interview, you failed the test.
The views expressed in this article may or may not reflect those of Pearls and Irritations.
Vivienne Porzsolt
Vivienne Porzsolt is a a secular Jew whose parents were refugees from the Nazis. She is a longtime activist for a range of social justice issues. She is a former spokesperson for Jews against the Occupation ‘48 in Sydney and has been an advocate for justice and equality in Palestine/Israel for many years.
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Britain has been an active partner in the destruction of Gaza. In this column for Middle East Eye I expose British complicity in the Smotrich programme of land seizure, settler violence and the eradication of ancient communities across the West Bank:
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“Zelensky and his entire team are equally uninterested in peace, because peace is followed by elections” — Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983879466511217013
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During a UN press conference, Francesca Albanese (@FranceskAlbs) was asked whether October 7 had been a “game-changer.”
“I think that what happened on October 7 is to be told for what it was… military bases attacked and… [separately] crimes were committed against Israeli civilians by Palestinian armed groups, but also, as mounting evidence demonstrates, by the Israeli army,” she said. “What I think has been a game changer is the genocidal intent that has transformed a settler-colonial apartheid regime into a genocide, and this started on October 9.”
Albanese described the total siege imposed that day—cutting off food, water, medicine, and fuel—as the moment Israel’s genocidal intent became unmistakable. “So for me the 9th of October 2023 was a game changer,” she said.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984025076061413497
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During the more than 24 months of genocide, Israeli forces intentionally targeted Palestinian farmers working in the few agricultural areas that had not yet been destroyed in #Gaza, using airstrikes, direct gunfire, and repeated shelling. This turned farmlands into high-risk zones where the simple act of trying to secure food became a deadly gamble.
Ongoing bombings and ground incursions also prevented farmers from accessing lands that survived earlier destruction, while other areas remained unusable due to the lack of irrigation caused by power outages, the destruction of water wells, and severe fuel shortages needed to operate irrigation systems.
Available data reveals the enormous scale of destruction inflicted by #Israel on Gaza’s agricultural sector:
1,218 agricultural wells were destroyed and rendered completely inoperative.
Planted vegetable areas shrank from 93,000 dunams to around 4,000 dunams only.
Over 85% of greenhouses were destroyed. This amounts to the total collapse of Gaza’s food production system.
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“Every child has the right to be alive, they also have the right to safe passage, they have the right to food they have the right to a safe home, we created these rights how all children everywhere could be protected at all times”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983848285891965414
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MMT and BRICS: Warren Mosler eta BRICS: https://unibertsitatea.net/blogak/heterodoxia/2025/06/07/brics-eta-warren-mosler/
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World Affairs@World_Affairs11
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BREAKING: China says BRICS countries are ready to launch a new joint BRICS currency for trade, replacing the US dollar.
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BREAKING:
China just made it clear:
“We will soon dethrone the U.S. as the world’s top economy.” 
Beijing isn’t whispering anymore
— the age of American dominance is fading.
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Turkish President Erdogan pushed back against 
German Chancellor Merz’s claim that “Israel exercised its right to self-defense” and that “the war would have ended if Hamas had laid down its weapons earlier.”
Erdogan said:
“There’s one thing the chancellor said that I cannot agree with. Nearly 60,000 women, children, and elderly people have been killed. Hamas doesn’t have bombs or nuclear weapons — Israel does, and it’s using them.”
“Does Germany not see this? Does Germany not follow what’s happening? They are trying to subdue Gaza through starvation and genocide.”
(Longer footage including Merz’s response is in linked post below.)
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984061519965884790
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Reporter: You’ve been supporting Israel. Over 60,000 people, including 20,000+ children, have been killed in Gaza. Is this support because of Germany’s Nazi past? Don’t you fear history will judge you for backing the wrong side again?
Germany’s Merz:
Germany has stood with Israel since its founding. Germany will always stand with Israel.
Türkiye’s Erdogan: They’re bombing Gaza — this is genocide, a campaign to ‘discipline’ people through mass killing.
Germany — don’t you see this? Are you not watching?
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983905668969992299
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The two state solution is a fallacy.
The only just future is one democratic state from the river to the sea, guaranteeing equal rights for everyone who lives there and the right of return for all Palestinians.
If that offends you, maybe ask yourself: why does equality and democracy scare you more than apartheid and racial supremacy?
Aipamena
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics
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“What is actually distressing for a politician, a British politician, is knowing that we have the ability to stop it”
MP Zarah Sultana speaks to @bbcnickrobinson about the situation in Gaza
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984179787364028774
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“Can you imagine someone knocking on your door in Brooklyn and saying, ‘Excuse me, I used to live in your house 3,000 years ago’?”
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé argues that Jews’ indigenous ties to Palestine do not justify occupation.
Full video w/ @mehdirhasanlinked in replies
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983989587728068851
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A storm.. I
DF’s Chief Military Advocate,Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi the very official responsible for prosecuting violations of international law within the Israeli army reportedly told the IDF Chief of Staff this morning in her resignation letter that she had personally approved the release of the video showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee last year.
According to reports, she explained that the decision came after relentless (right-wing ) interference when investigators tried to enter Sde Teiman military prison, following the conditions there and the latest rape incident that came into their knowledge, interference led by Israeli ministers, journalists, and political figures who launched a vicious campaign against the military prosecution office and even stormed her base.
Let’s be clear: Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has never done her basic job to investigate the genocide unfolding under her watch. She approved it. She turned a blind eye again and again. But when confronted with evidence of mass rape against Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman, she seems to have realized just how deep the moral collapse of Israel had gone and tried, at the very last moment, to do something. Not out of empathy for the victims or concern over the violations themselves, she didn’t care about that, but because she was trying to shield IDF soldiers by symbolic discpline and limit Israel’s exposure to international accountability: potential arrest warrants, sanctions, war crime investigations, and legal isolation.
For the tiniest act of doing 0.00000001% of the job she was appointed to do, today IDF chief of staff kicked her out.
Because in today’s Israel, even the faintest move toward fake accountability from within the IDF is treated as treason.
There is no law in the IDF.. No moral code just propaganda carefully repackaged and sold by some Western mainstream outlets to sanitize what’s happening.
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Palestine 36 is a masterpiece on the 1936 Arab revolt
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Palestine 36 is a masterpiece on the 1936 Arab revolt
(https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/palestine-36-masterpiece-1936-arab-revolt)
The film by Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir is a sophisticated and devastating period piece set during the British Mandate
A shot from the film Palestine 36, depicting rebels on horseback (YouTube/Screengrab)
By Imran Mulla
31 October 2025
Films about rebels taking on a powerful state or empire are no rarity in Hollywood. The original Star Wars was made by George Lucas with the Vietnam War in mind, but featured enough spaceships and robots to evade political scrutiny.
Avatar, The Hunger Games and even the Marvel movies have performed the same function in the past few decades.
Such films are often criticised for their self-indulgence. More often than provoking serious reflection on the world, they allow western audiences to enjoy imagining themselves as plucky rebels and heroes doing battle against tyranny.
Others, however, argue that these films subtly influence public opinion on real-world events.
One recent example of a film which made people talk about Gaza is the Superman film – widely considered to be critical of Israel because it featured a villain who supposedly resembled Benjamin Netanyahu and a heroic, vaguely Middle Eastern-looking victim population facing invasion.
The film grossed $354m in the US and $37.6m in Britain earlier this year, amid the live-streamed genocide in Gaza.
In contrast, Palestine 36 – an indie movie released by Curzon Film and playing in cinemas throughout Britain from Friday – is a breath of fresh air.
This film is about history, not fantasy, and it explicitly and fearlessly addresses that most politically incorrect of topics: Palestine.
Directed by Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, it is the state’s submission to the Oscars this year.
It should arguably have been Britain’s, since it is a film about both British and Palestinian history.
A modern-day Battle of Algiers
The film focuses on the Palestinian revolt in the 1930s against the British Mandate, a rebellion that began peacefully but escalated into violence in response to intensifying British repression.
Amid the destruction of Gaza and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, it is a tale for our times.
It may not surprise Palestinians, but the film is bound to shock nearly every Briton who watches it, owing to the stunning omissions from this period in the country’s history curriculum.
The film details the crimes and duplicity of British officials in Palestine in the 1930s.
It also explores what drove many Palestinians to violent resistance.
British soldiers are shown killing innocent people and burning entire villages. Palestinian rebels are seen shooting British soldiers. A protagonist is gunned down by soldiers, but not before throwing a grenade that will blow them all up.
In one of the film’s final scenes, a young boy who has seen his family killed pulls a gun on a British soldier and shoots him dead in revenge.
At times, Palestine 36 bears resemblance to The Battle of Algiers, the legendary 1966 film about the war of independence against French rule in Algeria, which likewise coolly depicted both colonial and anti-colonial violence without sugar-coating the brutality.
Much of Palestine 36 was filmed in the occupied West Bank itself. The visuals are stunning, particularly the sweeping shots of rebels in keffiyehs galloping with their guns on horseback across the countryside.
Colourised archival footage of the period appears throughout the film, lending it an added feel of authenticity.
The British Mandate
By 1936, Palestine had been under British colonial mandate for nearly 20 years. Between 1922 and 1940, as a result of Jewish migration out of Europe, the Jewish population in Palestine grew more than fivefold to over 467,000, around one third of the total population.
Jewish land ownership more than doubled from 60,100 to 155,200 hectares. The period saw the British facilitating land grabs and evicting entire villages.
In April 1936, the Arab National Committee in Nablus announced a general strike against mandatory rule. It was brutally suppressed by British forces.
This led to what is commonly known as the Arab revolt from 1936 to 1939, a period of armed resistance that saw the British declare martial law in Palestine.
The film stars multiple well-known actors, including Jeremy Irons as the British high commissioner, Liam Cunningham as another British official and Succession’s Hiam Abbass as a Palestinian villager turned rebel.
A scene from Palestine 36 shows rebels rallying local Palestinians (Screengrab)
The story follows Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya), a villager who works in Jerusalem for a wealthy, liberal magazine editor, and the editor’s wife, writer Khouloud (Yasmine Al Massri), who publishes her articles under a male pseudonym.
Yusuf starts off apolitical but eventually becomes a rebel in response to British atrocities.
One of Palestine 1936’s great strengths is its sophisticated depiction of diversity and divisions among Palestinians.
The editor, Amir, is a member of the Muslim Association, which the film presents as a Zionist-funded body set up to undermine Palestinian nationalism.
Khouloud becomes increasingly opposed to her husband’s approach and ultimately embraces the revolt.
The urban-rural divide is prominent in the film; harrowing scenes in which British soldiers torment Palestinian villagers are juxtaposed with scenes of lavish, wine-fuelled parties in Jerusalem in which upper-class Palestinians dance with British officials.
Rural rebels are presented as the driving force behind first the general strike and then the violent rebellion.
‘Their countries don’t want them’
For all its strengths, the film is not without its blind spots. For example, it avoids controversial aspects of history, such as the omission of the crucial role played in the revolt by Izz al-Din al-Qassam, after whom the armed wing of Hamas in Gaza is named.
Qassam gets a single and surprising mention: “As Qassam preached, it is better to die a martyr than to surrender,” an elderly villager declares before soldiers kill him.
Curiously, there are no Jewish characters with speaking roles. The focus is exclusively on Palestinians and a few British officials, and the overarching conflict in the film is between them.
Billy Howle plays Thomas Hopkins, a conscience-stricken official who becomes increasingly outraged by British policy and prone to expletives as the story proceeds.
Robert Aramayo plays Captain Orde Wingate, a fanatical anti-Palestinian racist and Christian Zionist.
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/wWtwnae_5UI
There is no sense in the film that the Palestinian characters see Jewish settlers as enemies; the main villains for them are the British.
In one early scene, a Palestinian girl asks her mother why Jewish migrants they see building a settlement have moved to Palestine. “Their countries don’t want them,” her mother replies.
The tone of the conversation is curious, even empathetic. It is worlds away from the mythical narrative common in pro-Israel discourse, which casts Palestinians as fanatical antisemites.
Palestinian grievance, the film shows, was simply that their land and homes were being stolen.
As Yusuf puts it succinctly in one scene: “We are losing land daily, and many farmers have been evicted from their lands.”
‘Palestine was not Balfour’s to give’
The climax of the film sees the unveiling of Britain’s 1937 partition plan to split Palestine into two states, which would have entailed forcible displacement.
It was a precursor to the eventual partition plan, which Palestinians rejected in 1947, setting the stage for war, the creation of Israel and the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of at least 750,000 Palestinians.
It is often suggested by British commentators that Palestinians were somehow unreasonable to have rejected the partition plan. But the film depicts the British policy as a callous colonial betrayal.
“Is it the right of the English to distribute the land as they like?” A dignified village elder asks an uncomfortable Hopkins in one scene.
Later, protesting women address Lord Arthur Balfour’s famous declaration of 1917, which declared British support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
“Palestine was not Balfour’s to give,” they chant.
The motivation for the revolt is summarised by one rebel leader: “My friends, your country and jobs are being given away.
“Either we stand up for ourselves, or we sit back and watch.”
Palestine 36 is stirring, thought-provoking and devastating. It examines the roots of the bloody conflict still playing out today.
This is a rare film that has been made with profound moral courage. It ought to win an Oscar – several, ideally.
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Neocons Are Exploiting the Drug Crisis to Drag America Into War. My latest with Tucker Carlson.
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Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
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The prospect of regime changing Maduro is like Viagra to Lindsey Graham. Unfortunately it won’t prevent a single fentanyl death.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983711898605674760
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Norman Finkelstein is right. 
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Zarah Sultana on today’s Political Thinking podcast with Nick Robinson.
She starts by paying tribute to Jeremy Corbyn’s long history of campaigning for peace, justice, and equality.
That’s one of the reasons he will always have my support.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984239080348254447
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I call on Israel to retract and apologise for this sexist and hateful attack on the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory by the Israeli Ambassador to the UN in New York. Such language is completely unacceptable in international diplomacy
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Danny Danon 
דני דנון
@dannydanon
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Francesca Albanese, you’re a wicked witch.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983232923533803893
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URGENT: Gaza is calm… but Jerusalem is in turmoil.
The largest protest since the occupation of Palestine — Hundreds of thousands of Haredim take to the streets, rejecting conscription and backing draft evaders.
The real fracture isn’t at the border…
It’s deep inside Israeli society.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1983956716585726292
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This is a masterclass in truth-telling – and will prove essential in bringing about justice for the Palestinian people. Buy Peter’s book below!
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Peter Oborne@OborneTweets
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Complicit. My book on Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza is out now and available here https://orbooks.com/catalog/complicit/
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The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a new complaint at the International Criminal Court, naming 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders who they accuse of killing six-year-old Hind Rajab, her family, and two paramedics in Gaza.
The filing follows an Al Jazeera documentary that identified the unit accused – a tank company known as the “Vampire Empire.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984117867269214522
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A devastating indictment of the UK media by @OborneTweetsin his new book, ‘Complicit‘:
‘Large sections of the media repeated the lies promoted by Israeli and British politicians. Some produced fresh lies of their own. They twisted their reports in favour of the Israeli cause. For a long time, reports of Israeli atrocities appeared either in muted form or not at all. Hamas atrocities were exaggerated or fabricated. Dissident voices were suppressed. Across much of the media spectrum a general implicit consensus emerged: Israelis count and Palestinians don’t.’
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NEW:
China already has a replacement for Nvidia‘s AI chips and is not interested in them anymore – Reuters
Back in 2022, the US banned Nvidia from selling its powerful AI chips to China.
So Nvidia made a light version called the H20, which was weak, pricey, but China bought tons of them anyway.
In 2025, Trump banned this chips too.
Meanwhile Huawei and SMIC developed chinese made chips who are running AI just as well as the Nvidia chips.
After this China banned Nvidia.
Trump tried to put these chips on the negotiation table, but Xi was not interested anymore
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Francesca Albanese shuts down reporter question on whether Israel has right to exist
“The state of Israel is there, it’s protected as a member of the United Nations. Does this justify the erasure of another people? Hell no. Not 75 years…”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984323245546295506
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How the World Works – Jeffrey Sachs
A lot of what happens in this world is determined by the United States.
The great powers US, Russia, China and India.
Europe doesn’t show up on that list of, four because it’s pretty incoherent in foreign policy right now.
Donald Trump is an incredibly irascible, and unstable figure.
A lot of the European politicians are, either kind of raised by the US and promoted by the US or they feel a kind of dependency on the US so, the behavior is, little sad, little pathetic actually.
The worst of all, of course, was when, the Secretary General of NATO (*RUTTI FRUTTI), called Donald Trump, “Daddy.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1984382177421693389
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The media in this country are a disgrace — too eager to lick the boots of their billionaire owners by churning out clickbait headlines like this.
Nigel Farage isn’t Hitler, but make no mistake: if we don’t stop him and Reform, he will drag this country down a dangerous, fascist path — just as we’ve seen unfold across parts of Europe and the United States.
That path means attacks on trade unions, minority communities and our civil liberties.
It’s socialism or barbarism.
We must choose socialism.
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‘Suicide epidemic’ among Israeli soldiers amid Gaza genocide
A new report by Israel’s Knesset Research and Information Center recorded 279 suicide attempts among soldiers between Jan 2024 – Jul 2025.
– For every soldier who died by suicide, 7 more tried to take their own lives.
– 12% of the 279 suicide attempts were classified as severe or life-threatening, meaning those soldiers required critical medical intervention or hospitalization after their attempts.
– The remaining 88% were labeled “moderate” in severity by the Knesset report.
Knesset member Ofer Cassif, who requested the report, described the data as proof of a “suicide epidemic … which is expected to increase when the war ends.” He said the trauma must be confronted by “establishing real support systems for soldiers, working to end wars, and striving for real peace.”
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After providing political cover for Zelensky for 3.5 years and dismissing all criticism as “Russian propaganda”, Politico shifts the narrative ahead of Zelensky’s downfall
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Genocide scholar Martin Shaw has written the first review of my book on Britain’s complicity in the destruction of Gaza. It appears in @declassifiedUK, whose coverage has put Britain’s mainstream media to shame.
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Complicity – or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide
(https://www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-or-conspiracy-britains-role-in-israels-genocide/)
Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction.
MARTIN SHAW
29 October 2024
David Lammy met Benjamin Netanyahu in July 2024 soon after Labour won power. (Photo: Ben Dance / FCDO)
As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even war crimes, let alone genocide.
Some of these denialists are hardened Zionists, others are opportunists, but the bottom line is summed up in the one-word title of Peter Oborne’s timely book. They have made themselves “complicit” (at the very least) in Israel’s monstrous crimes.
Oborne traces British complicity through Rishi Sunak’s unconditional backing for Israel after 7 October 2023, and Keir Starmer’s outrageous statement that Israel had the right to cut off power and water, to their joint opposition to a ceasefire.
Through a “cross-party cartel”, they “established the political foundation that would make Britain complicit” in massacres, indiscriminate bombing, torture and displacement.
This led to specific contributions to Israel’s genocide. Britain sold parts for the F-35 fighter jets that it used to kill civilians, and withdrew funding for UNRWA, the agency that provided Gaza’s humanitarian lifeline.
The RAF flew hundreds of reconnaissance flights, as Declassified exposed. The pretext of helping to find Israel’s hostages was quickly undermined as it became clear that Netanyahu was sacrificing them in his pursuit of endless destruction.
Above all, Oborne shows, UK governments unremittingly placed the lives of Israelis above those of Palestinians, accused critics of antisemitism, and blocked protest, culminating in the banning of the nonviolent direct-action group, Palestine Action, as a ‘terrorist’ organisation. The far right Reform UK also egged on this repression.
Accomplices
Complicity is not just a moral disaster; it has legal consequences, being specified as an international crime under Article III of the United Nations Genocide Convention.
Moreover, accountability is not only for international courts to decide: the Convention is incorporated into British law under the International Criminal Court Act of 2001.
How have we got into the position where British leaders – Sunak, Starmer and others – potentially face trial as accomplices in genocide?
Oborne starts with South Africa’s case in the International Court of Justice, which ruled that the Palestinians faced “plausible” risks of genocide.
Despite this, Tory ministers and their Labour successors ignored the duty of genocide prevention that the judgment reinforced.
Far from trying to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza’s civilian population, both doubled down on UK military and political support for it.
The politicians could not have sustained their complicity had it not been for the mainstream media, the third element of what Oborne calls a “triple alliance”.
His thorough dissection of their pro-Israeli coverage, which often combined bigotry and ignorance with contempt for Palestinian journalists, is devastating.
However, by focusing on the BBC, the Daily Mail, etc., he leaves the more nuanced complicity of the Guardian and other liberal media for other researchers to attend to.
Conspirators
Complicit combines a first draft of the history of the last two years with a longer historical primer.
It explains how Britain’s role in Gaza was prepared by decades of protection for Israeli repression across Palestine.
There is a full examination of Israel’s support structure in the two main parties – Oborne’s own emergence from the fading Conservative Arabist milieu gives him a distinctive vantage-point.
Oborne rightly sees that Starmer deserves a chapter to himself. Following his involvement as a lawyer in a major international genocide case in 2014, he is uniquely knowledgeable about the crime among world leaders, and must therefore appreciate the precariousness of his and the UK’s positions.
If anything, Complicit understates this exposure. The Genocide Convention itemises “conspiracy” as well as “complicity” as a specific crime.
The UK has clung so closely to Israel’s genocidal leaders, frequently consulting them about its deadly cooperation in their military actions, and openly boasting about it, that conspiracy is also a plausible charge.
Indeed, British-Israeli collaboration can be seen as a branch of the much larger US-Israeli conspiracy, which in 2025 has seen Trump take over the higher management of the genocide.
As I argue in my own new book, this integrated involvement makes Gaza stand out, even in the long history of British and Western complicity with genocide across the world.
Starmer and the other villains of this piece are hoping that none of this will come to court quickly.
Political careers are short, legal timelines are often long. But a reckoning is coming, and everyone who reads Complicit will come away determined to bring that day nearer.
Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, is available to order from OR Books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martin Shaw is an international relations professor at IBEI, Barcelona, and Sussex University, and was one of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. His book The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza (Agenda) has just been published.
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