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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill |Hassan Abdulrazzak
It’s 2040, and Palestine has been divided into a number of small states. Two IT department employees in the Gaza municipality manage to hack the International Olympic Committee (IOC) system and submit a prank application to host the 2048 Olympics. To their utter surprise, they win and Gaza becomes the host of the world games. That’s the premise of Ahmed Masoud’s satirical futuristic drama, Application 39, which imagines a world beyond the current catastrophe and genocide.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Jonathan Cook |Joe Gill |Soumaya Ghannoushi
A second Nakba is unfolding, not in secret, not whispered through trembling lips, not passed as rumours between fleeing survivors, but in the full, merciless light of day. It is live-streamed. Captioned. Digitised. A genocide unfolding in high definition and real time. This is no echo of 1948. It is its evolution. Its mutation. The same machinery of erasure, now upgraded, modernised, militarised, and globally broadcast. More ruthless. More unapologetic.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill |Jonathan Cook
Who could have imagined 19 months ago that it would take more than a year and a half of Israel slaughtering and starving Gaza’s children for the first cracks to appear in what has been a rock-solid wall of support for Israel from western establishments. Finally, something looks like it may be about to give.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Joe Gill
Donald Trump’s administration declared a ceasefire in Yemen last week due to burning through expensive munitions while failing to establish air superiority over the Houthis, according to the New York Times. Citing Washington officials, a report on Monday stated that the Yemeni group shot down numerous American MQ Reaper drones and fired at naval ships in the Red Sea right up until the moment a truce was agreed.
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4 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Joe Gill
Abdul Kareem, a religious preacher in Sanaa, believes that Yemen has been on the right side of history over the past year and a half. He praised the decision of the Houthis, who rule large swathes of northwestern Yemen, including the capital, to militarily respond to Israel’s war on Gaza. “We didn’t stop the Israeli aggression, but we posed a big threat,” Abdul Kareem told Middle East Eye.
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4 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
Prominent health workers have written to the BBC expressing "profound outrage" over its decision to delay the broadcast of a new film about doctors working in Gaza, which they say is "censorship by omission". The documentary, Gaza: Medics Under Fire, was ready to broadcast in February but was pulled because of a scandal that erupted over another BBC documentary on children in Gaza, entitled How to Survive a Warzone.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Joe Gill
Independent MP Shockat Adam has criticised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for claiming "most of what he says is not right" after Adam asked whether the UK will "acknowledge that ethnic cleansing is underway" and end its military cooperation with Israel. Adam, the MP for Leicester South and a member of the parliamentary Independent Alliance group, put the questions to Starmer on Wednesday during Prime Minister's Questions in parliament.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Joe Gill
British Conservative MP Bob Blackman has shared an X post by India's ruling party celebrating New Delhi's attacks on Pakistan that reportedly killed dozens of civilians. Blackman, MP for the London constituency of Harrow East, also shared a video of explosions in Gaza which purported to be a video of Pakistan during India's attacks. India said on Wednesday that it carried out "precision strikes" on "terrorist camps" across nine sites in Pakistan, as its neighbour promised to retaliate.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
Reform, Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing party, has just swept local elections across the UK, while the Labour party - only 10 months after winning a majority in a general election - suffered its worst results in many decades. “They’ve gone back on everything they said they would do for the working class,” said a female voter speaking to the BBC after Reform also defeated Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby byelection on 1 May by just six votes.
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1 month ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Joe Gill
“They’ve gone back on everything they said they would do for the working class,” said a female voter speaking to the BBC after Reform defeated Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby byelection on May 1. On every doorstep it was Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s winter fuel payment and benefit cuts that voters were angry about, a Labour source told the BBC. Labour’s 15,000-vote majority in the north-west England seat was wiped out.
