WHY IS PARLIAMENT’S GENOCIDE WATCHDOG SO SILENT ON GAZA?
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-is-parliaments-genocide-watchdog-so-silent-on-gaza/
Seven months into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, there remains little appetite among the Britain’s political class to end the slaughter, even after close to 40,000 Palestinians have been killed.
But the indifference to Palestinian suffering does not appear confined to individual politicians and vested party interests. Rather, it is a culture across Westminster.
One example is the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide (APPG-G).
This is a cross-party group which apparently aims to ensure Britain does all it can to stop genocides and crimes against humanity.
Yet the group has shown no urgency to save lives in Gaza.
Its chairwoman is Fleur Anderson, an opposition MP for Putney. She is also listed as a parliamentary member of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI).
Can her APPG really be committed to preventing genocide while she also participates in a lobby group that whitewashes settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing in Palestine?
Just in January, LFI organised its largest solidarity delegation to Israel in over a decade and proudly posed with president Isaac Herzog.
They went there even as Israel was on trial for genocide at the World Court and Herzog himself was singled out for his dangerous language as evidence of incitement.
A closer inspection of Anderson’s work is revealing. In November, during parliament’s vote for an immediate ceasefire, 56 Labour MPs defied the party whip and voted for it.
Anderson was not one of them.
Less than a month later, she spoke in the House of Commons about the importance of parliamentarians doing more to ensure genocides never happen.
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Israelis as the Neo-Fascists :: Part1
Fascism is a difficult concept for many Arabic speakers or Muslims. The point about Fascism for them is that they were opposed to the Jews and therefore many Arabic speakers or Muslims might even find Fascism attractive. And who can blame them the way Israel is behaving and has behaved since WW2?: Denial of human rights, war crimes, genocide while nobody holds them to account for their excessive murders.
What I’m suggesting is that Israelis are the new Fascists.
Fascists were about the denial of democracy and doing all the things that the Israelis are doing now. The crimes that the Israelis are accused of are crimes from WW2 that were created in an attempt to ensure that such behaviour would never happen again. And yet here it is that the Israelis are committing these crimes.
The Jews to the German Nazi Fascists of WW2 were regarded as less than human and so they did not need to be afforded human rights. We see that this is the same today with Israelis and Palestinians.
Supporters of Israel’s Gaza genocide should be regarded as aiding and abetting genocide. What else can they possibly be?
Many of our grandparents and further back ancestors fought the Nazi Fascists of WW2 for a better world. In their memory, we should not permit this Fascism to exist.
07.10 13/5/24 Added ‘ancestors’ at final para. Added more tags. 15/5/24 Reordered last paragraph.
15/5/24 Israel operates concentration camps
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“It’s a real diplomatic punch,” a former Israeli diplomat said. “Israel would have to take it very seriously.”
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Rees-Mogg claimed this was “nonsense” and that no fossil fuel subsidies were handed out. He argued that they were tax breaks not subsidies and that the two were “completely different”, before cutting off the interview telling Vince to “do your homework”.
The energy boss did, and hit back with a video in which he explains how tax breaks are subsidies, as laid out in a piece of Brexit legislation passed when Rees-Mogg himself was Brexit Minister.
Vince refers to a piece of Brexit legislation, the Subsidy Control Act 2022, which replaced EU laws with new British legislation which he said lays out that tax breaks are in fact counted as subsidies.
In the video Vince said: “It begs the question, Mr Mogg, were you not paying attention when you were Brexit Minister passing pieces of legislation, did you not know that it was EU rules that say that tax breaks are subsidies and UK rules as well, both inside and outside the EU? Have you not done your homework?”
The New Economics Foundation has estimated that oil and gas extractors could receive up to £18.5bn in tax relief between 2023 and 2026, while the UK government gave fossil fuel companies £20bn more in support than renewables from 2015 to 2023, research found.
Campaigners have said that owners of the Rosebank development, a massive new, controversial oilfield in the North Sea, are set to receive around £3bn in tax breaks from the UK government.
The british green energy industrialist was praised online for his comeback.
A professor of law wrote on X: “Indeed, and a tax break can also be a subsidy (provided that it is specific) under the rules of the blessed WTO, which Rees-Mogg used to praise so highly. It’s Rees-Mogg who did not do his homework here.”
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REVEALED: UK MILITARY HAS FLOWN 200 SPY MISSIONS OVER GAZA IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
British spy planes have recorded up to 1,000 hours of footage over Gaza, including from the day Israel assassinated three UK aid workers.
- UK government refuses to give details of spy flights but Declassified independently obtains information
- British spy plane landed at Israel’s major air force base, Nevatim, in February
- UK’s Shadow R1 spy plane can supply intelligence for ‘target acquisition’
- ICC could investigate British ministers over complicity in war crimes
The Royal Air Force (RAF) has flown 200 surveillance flights over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.
The UK government refused to give any details about the flights which began on December 3 but Declassified has independently constructed a timeline.
The extraordinary number of missions over the past five months works out at well over a flight per day and continues as Israel invades the supposedly “safe” southern city of Rafah.
March saw the highest number of British spy flights over Gaza with 44 missions.
The new information comes amid speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers. British officials could also face prosecution for complicity in war crimes, including defence secretary Grant Shapps.
All the British spy flights have taken off from RAF Akrotiri, the UK’s sprawling air base on Cyprus, and have been in the air for around six hours.
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