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Starmer’s Racism Hypocrisy: Get Your Own House In Order First

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January 17th 2019. That was the very last time I sat down to watch an episode of BBC Question Time.  It was being hosted by Fiona Bruce in the city of Derby and members of the panel included Rory Stewart, extremist hack Isabel Oakeshott, and the former shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott.  Bruce, who even 5 years ago was earning £400,000 a year for fronting the show, made some rude comments regarding Diane Abbott before the show went on air.  Apparently it was normal for the host to “warm up the crowd”, but the BBC and Bruce went on to apologise for what they called “light-hearted” comments aimed at Ms Abbott.  Audience members had claimed Bruce’s snide remarks centred on Ms Abbott’s ­relationship with Jeremy Corbyn in the 1970s, implying her role as shadow Home Secretary was as a result of their closeness. That episode of shamefully demeaning and disrespectful treatment of Britain’s first Black woman MP was the final nail in the corporations coffin for me.  I can remember when Diane

Don’t Look Away… Gaza Is Being Starved To Death By Israel

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Some 5 months have passed since the Israeli genocide of Gaza began. 103,000 civilians are either dead or injured with thousands more permanently buried beneath the rubble of a place they once called home. We are now at the “we told you so” stage of Israel’s massacre of the Palestinian people.  We told you this was never about self-defence and we told you Zionism is a dangerous, extreme and fundamentally racist ideology. We told you Israel planned to exterminate the Palestinian people and we told you they would do this to build thousands of new homes for illegal settlers. Just this Wednesday, Israel’s settlement-planning authority issued permits for nearly 3,500 new illegal settlement housing units in the occupied Palestinian territory, the first such approval since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7 last year. The far-right Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich said the constructions add to the 18,515 housing units in illegal settlements approved in the last year.  When an im

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal”

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Facts:  "Starvation is being used as a weapon of war against Palestinians living in Gaza. Virtually no aid is getting into Gaza, and whatever aid Israel might allow to trickle in is insufficient and cannot be safely distributed to civilians who are being forced to run for their lives.”   "Denying civilians sufficient food, as well as water, fuel and critical humanitarian aid is a serious violation of international law, and collective punishment. It may also meet the threshold for the crime against humanity." — Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam International’s Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa  “ Gaza is witnessing the worst level of malnutrition worldwide.” "Pregnant women are not receiving the nutrition and healthcare they need, making them more susceptible to disease and increasing risks of death during childbirth,"  "One of our staff members who is now in Rafah has spoken about his time in the north with no clean water - and how he would buy 7