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  • Owen Jones: Israel lied about its murder of 15 paramedics and rescue workers

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    https://www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lied-about-its-murder-of-15

    Yet the Western media will keep treating Israeli lies about war crimes as credible claims

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    So what we have here is an unbelievably grave war crime – the massacre of 15 Red Crescent medics and first responders, which the Israeli military covered up and lied about.

    If this had been 15 Israeli medics and first responders butchered by Hamas, the media coverage would be deafening. It would be front page news and lead news bulletins. Every Western leader under the sun would issue damning statements condemning the utter evil of Hamas.Subscribe

    But these victims were Palestinian. On the BBC news website, it’s four stories down – but most damningly, the headline is: “Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings.”

    “Appears” to contradict? What does this even mean? The footage definitively proves the Israeli account is a litany of lies. What possible room for doubt exists here?

    Just imagine this footage had never been uncovered. Indeed, in the case of so many of Israel’s war crimes, there is no such footage, and Israeli claims are simply allowed to stand.

    And what’s even more disturbing is this will not change the Western media’s modus operandi. As I’ve noted, Western media outlets have done rebuttals of Israeli claims before. CNN took apart Israeli claims about the so-called Flour Massacre, when over 100 Palestinians were massacred while waiting for flour. The Washington Post took apart Israel’s claims about the November 2023 assault on al-Shifa hospital. The New York Times examined how, contrary to Israeli claims, 2,000lb bombs were being dropped on so-called ‘safe zones’ by the Israeli military.

    The point isn’t just that these rebuttals aren’t frequent enough, or given proper prominence, or treated with the requisite gravity – i.e. as evidence of extreme war crimes. It’s that they are orphaned from the wider narrative. Western media outlets should make clear that Israel has a proven record of entirely false statements about such atrocities. But, like a perverse Groundhog Day, they act as though these rebuttals never happened.

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    Original article at https://www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lied-about-its-murder-of-15

    Experiencing issues with this image not appearing. I suspect because it's so critical of Zionist Keir Starmer's support of and complicity in Israel's genocides.
    Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA

    12.40 BST ed: BBC has very recently published a further news article on this issue Israel changes account of Gaza medic killings after video showed deadly attack.

  • No kant do: Eurovision bars Malta’s entry over title’s similarity to C-word

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    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/05/kant-malta-eurovision-entry-censored-title-similarity-c-word

    Miriana Conte said she had been notified that the European Broadcasting Union had ruled against the word ‘kant’. Photograph: Eurovision 2025/Youtube

    Singer Miriana Conte told to change title and lyrics owing to suggestive play on Maltese word for ‘singing’

    Malta’s contestant at this year’s Eurovision contest will have to change the title and lyrics of her song owing to the phonetic resemblance between the Maltese word for “singing” and the C-word, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has ruled.

    Miriana Conte, 23, will represent Malta at the five-day music event in Basel, Switzerland, on 13 to 17 May after winning the Maltese song contest last month with her song Kant.

    While kant, from the Latin cantus, does mean “singing” and does not have a rude meaning in Maltese, the play on the English slang word for female genitalia is clearly intentional.

    The chorus of Conte’s empowerment anthem contains the phrase “serving kant” – a queer or drag slang phrase roughly meaning “to express boldness”.

    In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Conte said she had been notified that the EBU had ruled against her using the word “kant”.“While I’m shocked and disappointed, especially since we have less than a week to submit the song, I promise you this: the show will go on – Diva NOT down,” she wrote.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/05/kant-malta-eurovision-entry-censored-title-similarity-c-word

    Keir Starmer justifies why he has to travel abroad so much
    Keir Starmer justifies why he has to travel abroad so much

  • BBC and Guardian editors held private meetings with Israeli General

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    https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian-editors-private-meetings-with-israeli-general-kohavi

    General Aviv Kohavi led the IDF for four years up to January 2023. (Photo Ilan Assayag / Alamy)

    DECLASSIFIED UK Exclusive: Former IDF chief of staff met with Britain’s top journalists to promote Israel’s war on Gaza.

    Israel’s former top military officer, General Aviv Kohavi held private meetings with the editors of major British news organisations one month after the Gaza bombing began, Declassified can reveal.

    The meetings took place with Katherine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Richard Burgess, director of news content at the BBC, and Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times. 

    Further meetings were due to be held with Sky News chairman David Rhodes at the Israeli embassy, and then shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, between 7 and 9 November 2023, according to Kohavi’s itinerary.

    By this time, Israeli forces had killed over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli officials had made several public statements of genocidal intent. Kohavi had only stepped down from running Israel’s military months earlier. 

    During his tenure, he justified attacks on journalists, saying the soldiers who shot reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank “showed courage” and that he had not one “gram of regret” for flattening the Associated Press (AP) office in Gaza.

    The information about General Kohavi’s visit comes in documents obtained in Israel under the Freedom of Information Act by lawyer Elad Man and seen by Declassified.

    They reveal how Kohavi’s tour of Britain was planned with support from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), and Ministry of Defence.

    The trip was specifically designed to take advantage of a perceived “reversal in the attitude of Western countries toward Israel [in light of] the severity of the events… of October 7”.

    To this end, Kohavi was tasked with cultivating support for Israel as it escalated its brutal military offensive in Gaza.

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    Article continues at https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian-editors-private-meetings-with-israeli-general-kohavi

    Experiencing issues with this image not appearing. I suspect because it's so critical of Zionist Keir Starmer's support of and complicity in Israel's genocides.
    Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA
    UK Foreign Minister David Lammy confirms that UK government and military are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that the F-35 parts that they suspended from supplying to Israel are instead simply diverted via the United States. He says see https://youtu.be/QILgUHrdWRE
    UK Foreign Minister David Lammy confirms that UK government and military are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that the F-35 parts that they suspended from supplying to Israel are instead simply diverted via the United States. He says see https://youtu.be/QILgUHrdWRE

  • BBC urged not to bow to ‘cynical’ attacks on Gaza documentary

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bbc-urged-not-bow-cynical-attacks-gaza-documentary

    People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, July 6, 2024

    THE BBC has been urged not to give in to “cynical” attacks on a documentary on the Israeli invasion of Gaza, which it has pulled from iPlayer after criticism of its child narrator’s father being a Hamas official.

    Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone is narrated by 13-year-old Abdullah, whose father is deputy minister of agriculture in Gaza’s Hamas government.

    Last week Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said she would raise this with the BBC’s director-general and chairman, “particularly around the way in which they sourced the people who were featured in the programme.”

    A petition signed by socialist Jews including film-maker Mike Leigh, comedian and writer Alexei Sayle and actor Miriam Margolyes calls on the BBC to resist “censorship.”

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    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bbc-urged-not-bow-cynical-attacks-gaza-documentary

    dizzy: It’s available at bitorrent sites, may be issues about legality.

  • The Chancellor and her expenses before she became an MP

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg75jr5284o

    Rachel Reeves has had a difficult start to her ministerial career.

    As well as Labour’s new chancellor taking on the challenges of the UK economy, she has faced tricky questions about her past.

    They began with scrutiny of her online CV late last year.

    On the professional networking site LinkedIn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer claimed to have worked as an economist at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) immediately before becoming an MP.

    One of those who challenged it was a retired former colleague, Kev Gillett.

    In a public post on LinkedIn, which he asked followers to share, he wrote: “Back in 2009 Rt Hon Rachel Reeves worked 3 levels below me. Just facts. She was a Complaints Support Manager at LBG/HBOS. Not an Economist. #factcheck.”

    In fact it emerged that she had worked in a managerial role within the bank’s complaint handling department and her LinkedIn profile was updated to remove the claim.

    Thin grey line

    Rachel Reeves’s online CV exaggerated how long she spent working at the Bank of England

    Thin grey line

    Gillett also made another claim about Reeves’s time at the bank from 2006 to 2009, writing that she: “Nearly got sacked due to an expenses scandal where the 3 senior managers were all signing off each others expenses.”

    Reeves’s team vigorously denied the allegations.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg75jr5284o

    dizzy: I’ve quoted the start of a fairly long article from the BBC by Billy Kenber, Politics investigations correspondent and Phil Kemp, Politics producer. It is the report into their investigation of UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ errors in her reported career history and an expenses fraud investigation at her former employer Halifax Bank of Scotland.