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Trump is no aberration. Xenophobia is as American as apple pie

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Richard Silverstein |Jonathan Cook |Hamid Dabashi

Americans have a proverbially short memory, and they think the whole world suffers from the same condition. Whether living inside or outside of the US at the mercy of this collective American amnesia, and the unremitting violence it entails, the world needs a much longer memory to survive the chaos Washington is visiting upon it.
Why the world should boycott Trump's America

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Jonathan Cook |Richard Silverstein

The United States under President Donald Trump is a five-alarm fire. Fascism is ascendant. Education, art, culture, science, social welfare, humanitarian and healthcare systems are being dismantled. An entire national infrastructure nurtured for 250 years is dissolving before our eyes. No one appears capable of stopping it. Resistance, such as it is, seems futile. Democratic leaders like Senator Chuck Schumer are rolling over and playing dead in the face of Trump’s legislative agenda.
Netanyahu Only Ever Saw The Hostages As His Path Back To Genocide

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Jonathan Cook |Tariq Ali |Ramzy Baroud |Andre Damon

Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the hostages that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitableIsrael sustained the West’s support for its slaughter in Gaza for 15 months only through an intensive campaign of lies. It invented particularly heinous Hamas war crimes, such baby beheadings and mass rape, for which no evidence has ever been produced.
Israeli minister calls for forced 'deportation plan' for Palestinians in Gaza

2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Elis Gjevori |Jonathan Cook |David Hearst

An Israeli minister has said that removing Palestinians from Gaza would rely on force rather than so-called "voluntary migration". Likud Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi called the scheme a “deportation plan” in an online post on Tuesday, attacking attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara for allegedly demanding a legal review of the plan.
Trump didn't invent the Gaza ethnic cleansing plan. It's been US policy since 2007

2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | David Hearst |Jonathan Cook

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention from day one of his "revenge" attack on Gaza, launched 16 months ago, was either ethnic cleansing or genocide in Gaza. His ally in genocide for the next 15 months was former US President Joe Biden. His ally in ethnic cleansing is current US President Donald Trump. Biden provided the 2,000lb bombs for the genocide.
Metropolitan Police faces fresh questions over crackdown on pro-Palestine protest

Jan 31, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Simon Hooper |Jonathan Cook

London’s Metropolitan Police is facing growing calls for a review of its handling of a pro-Palestine demonstration earlier this month in which dozens of protesters were arrested. In a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, more than 50 MPs and members of the House of Lords called on the government to order an investigation into the policing of the 18 January protest.
New report lays out full extent of UK-Israel military partnership in Gaza

Jan 28, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett |Jonathan Cook

A new report from the British Palestinian Committee (BPC) has laid out the full extent of British military involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza and called on the UK government to bring its collaboration with the Israeli military to an end.
UK: New British Muslim group announces launch in apparent challenge to MCB

Jan 24, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Areeb Ullah |Jonathan Cook

Further details have been revealed about plans for a new national body aiming to speak for British Muslims, in what appears to be a direct challenge to the leadership credentials of the Muslim Council of Britain. The new body, which is called the British Muslim Network, is set to hold an official launch on 23 February, according to an invitation seen by Middle East Eye.
Former senior Israeli diplomat says UK support would secure Palestinian statehood

Jan 24, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Jonathan Cook

Alon Liel was a key part of Israel's foreign service for decades. At one point an adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, he later became director general of Israel's foreign ministry in 2000, making him the country's most senior career diplomat.
Gaza protest: How Starmer and the Met have joined forces to quash all dissent

Jan 24, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | John Rees |Jonathan Cook

The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza is a decisive turning point. It marks a new escalation by the British state in its campaign to repress dissent - and specifically the demonstrations against what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) determined a year ago was a “plausible” genocide in Gaza.