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Posted by: John Phoenix On October 25, Crispin Blunt confirmed that he was the Member of Parliament who police reported had been arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs. The MP for Reigate, who is also a former justice minister and an ex-chair of the House of Commons’ influential Foreign Affairs Committee, has now been suspended by the Conservative Party and reportedly told he must stay away from parliament. Of course, allegations of sexual and other forms of misconduct amongst the ‘great and the good’ are hardly unknown, but there appears to be more to this case than meets the eye. Blunt is insisting on his innocence. He had previously reported an allegation of extortion to police in relation to the same incident, and had spoken to officers several weeks pr...

ACCORDING to organisers around 500,000 took to the streets of London on Saturday 28 October to demand a ceasefire as the Israeli onslaught in Gaza continues to escalate. In a post on Facebook aimed at the British press, Stop the War Coalition officer John Rees argued that the figures reported by the media – most gave the police estimate of 100,000, some even lower – were incorrect. He compared it to the mass demonstration against the Iraq war in February 2003 which saw at least 1 million march in the capital, in which Rees was one of the organisers. “I can tell you with certainty that yesterday’s Palestine demo, which I also helped organise, was half a million strong, not a figure one fifth of that,” he wrote. It was certainly one of the biggest demonstrations in Londo...

Embrace the honourable Jewish people who reject Israeli atrocities We reproduce below articles by Gideon Levy and Ilan Pappe who are representative of the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the world who hate the fact that the Nazi Holocaust ended up driving so many Jews into feeling that they could not be safe except in an ethnically-cleansed environment, thereby leading them to the same Nazi barbarism directed against innocent Palestinian Arabs inhabiting the land imperialism was keen to allocate to them as a ‘Jewish homeland’. Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets are painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack, Israeli ...

The call of the US organisation Jewish Voice for Peace has issued this important statement reflecting the true voice of Jewish humanitarian tradition that the Holocaust sought to stifle. The Root of Violence Is Oppression. Right now, Palestinians, Israelis and all of us with family on the ground are terrified for loved ones. We grieve the lives of those already lost and remain committed to a future where every life is precious, and all people live in freedom and safety.  Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians and wounding t...

Posted by: John Phoenix Death of the Zionist Utopia Early in the morning of Saturday 7 October, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched its most daring attack thus far against the Israeli occupation.  In this coordinated attack from the sea, air and land, hundreds of Palestinian fighters broke through the high-tech fence that the Zionist state had constructed to keep 2.3 million Palestinians confined to the small Gaza Strip, with their every movement controlled by the occupation. Armed with knives, guns and grenades, Palestinian fighters killed (1,400) ? Israelis and wounded another 5,400 according to Israeli officials.  Another 203 were taken prisoner and driven to Gaza. At the same time the Resistance fired more than 6,000 rockets into Israel.  Although...