Increasingly isolated internationally, Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an unhinged speech to the UN General Assembly on September 26, 2025, speaking to an almost empty hall, as most of the delegates present had walked out in disgust. Photo via Dr. Omar Suleiman on X, who accurately entitled it, “What a pariah looks like in a picture.”Please click on either of the ‘Donate’ buttons below (via PayPal or Stripe) to make a donation towards the $2,500 (£2,000) I’m trying to raise to support...| www.andyworthington.co.uk
My analysis of Israel’s increasing international isolation, as a number of western countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Portugal and France, have finally recognized the State of Palestine, as pressure mounts on FIFA to ban Israel from international football, and as calls also increase for it to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest. In addition, just two days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu also faced an almost total walkout when he visited the US to address the UN General Assembly....| Andy Worthington
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Last week, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine and the Guardian into an Israeli military intelligence database from May this year, indicating that 8,900 militants had been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, suggested that, based on the official health ministry death toll of 53,000 at the time, that meant that over 83% of those killed were civilians. This is a startling statistic, but as another investigation, by Adam Rzepka for CounterPunch explained, the true death toll is considerably...| Andy Worthington
Today, as I report, the UN’s mechanism for assessing famine, the IPC (the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) confirmed, in a brand-new report, that the most severe famine conditions are occurring in the Gaza Strip, that this is an “entirely man-made” disaster, deliberately engineered by the State of Israel, and that it can and must be “halted and reversed”, via an immediate ceasefire “to allow humanitarian aid to reach everyone in the Gaza Strip.” The UN’s Tom Flet...| Andy Worthington
Two of the most talented artists in Guantánamo, Moath Al-Alwi and Khalid Qassim, resettled in Oman in January after being held for nearly 23 years without charge or trial, discuss their artwork and their memories of Guantánamo with their friend, the former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi. Both men’s work has featured in various art exhibitions of prisoners’ art over the last eight years, in the US and in Europe, and Moath’s vast sailing ships, made from recycled and scavenged materials, attra...| Andy Worthington
Photos from, and my report about the 31st coordinated monthly global vigils for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which took place across the US and in London, Brussels, Mexico City and Belgrade on August 6, 2025. I describe Guantánamo as doubly forgotten because, as we continue to campaign for justice for the 15 men still held in the “war on terror” prison, who now seem largely to have receded from memory, Trump’s recent reanimation of Guantánamo as a ...| Andy Worthington
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Israel’s deliberate campaign of mass starvation in Gaza has finally prompted outrage in western political and media circles, putting pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to finally lift the deadly siege on all supplies into Gaza that has been in place for nearly five months. This seems like positive news, but, predictably, Netanyahu is seeking to provide nothing more than “minimal” aid — enough, he hopes, to placate his critics, but, crucially, not enough to address the desperate crisis unf...| Andy Worthington
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My new article has one purpose: to highlight the fact that Israel is now engaged in the “mass death” phase of its genocidal assault on the trapped civilian population of the Gaza Strip, brought about through a ban on all supplies of food (and water, fuel and medical supplies), in place since the start of March, and, since May 26, through the replacement of the well-established aid systems provided by UNWRA and other international aid agencies with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a...| Andy Worthington
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