BBC News regularly proclaims its supposed editorial principles of fearless, independent, impartial, fair and accurate journalism. In a January 2023 speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group in London, then BBC Chairman Richard Sharp boasted that BBC journalism is the ‘global gold standard’ of cre| Media Lens
Fatemeh SadeghiOn January 23, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) requested arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for crimes against humanity for gender-based persecution. Following the Taliban regime's forceful takeover of power in 2021, women in Afghanistan have been severely repressed. This reaction by the global community, however, was not only a late response, but also seemed quite inadequate considering the severity of the situation of women and girls and the brutality they expe...| IGP PROCOL
Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and thus committing the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide.| Human Rights Watch
The BBC’s withdrawal of the powerful documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, epitomises how much the UK’s national broadcaster is beholden to the Israel lobby. The corporation’s longstanding systematic protection of Israel, considered an ‘apartheid regime’ by major human rights organisatio| Media Lens
When Hamas was first organized, the Israeli government viewed it as a useful counterforce to Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).| Jeremy R. Hammond
While many have rightly hailed the release of civilians held hostage by Hamas after the killings of hundreds of Israelis and other civilians on October 7 — hostage-taking is a war crime — less attention has been focused on why exactly Israel has so many Palestinians in detention and available to trade. And less still on how they got there.| Human Rights Watch
CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war by claiming such speech is tantamount to Holocaust denial.| www.leefang.com
CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct and is an offshoot of an Israeli government surveillance effort known as Keshet David.| jackpoulson.substack.com
In Part I of this essay, we established that if you ever need to express your love for an unhinged, racist and genocidal state, don’t say it with flowers.| plagueonbothhouses.substack.com
Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began to use starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime.| Human Rights Watch
This year marks 74 years of the Nakba, or the Palestinians’ experience of dispossession and loss of their homeland.| Al Jazeera
The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance.| Human Rights Watch
Palestinian artists, writers and our listed allies in the arts ask you to show your support for Palestinian liberation.| www.e-flux.com
Two cornerstones of the Trudeau government's foreign policy have been its public statements in defence of human rights around the world and its less-publicized support for Israel at the United Nations. Now, a series of reports by the world's leading human rights organizations accusing Israel of employing a policy of apartheid in its treatment of Palestinians have put the focus on the tension between those two positions.| CBC
Embracing a radical critique of Israeli apartheid is a precondition for bringing it to a just end.| Jewish Currents