Israel, Palestine and the Labour party history that has made Keir Starmer's position so difficult
Labour frontbencher Imran Hussain has resigned over the party’s failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Labour frontbencher Imran Hussain has resigned over the party’s failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
Part II In 1998, the renowned British historian Paul Johnson wrote an essay in Commentary to commemorate Israel’s birthday.
by Vanessa Beeley / July 24th, 2021 UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres celebrated the extension of a “humanitarian” border crossing at Bab Al Hawa, on July 10th, as a “lifeline for millions of people” – many Syrians would rather describe it as a “lifeline” for Al Qaeda. On the 15th July I visited Jurin, a village to the north of the Hama governorate and only 5km from the Syrian allied military frontlines with the Al Qaeda-dominated armed groups controlling Idlib, north-west Syria. We arrived at around 9 am to the boom of mortar and rocket fire from the Jabal az Zawiya mounta...
This four-bedroom house on Ormond Road is £1.75m with Knight Frank The buyer of this four-bedroom house in Richmond, south west London, will find that the property comes with a strange but flattering perk – misdirected fan mail. The list of absent addressees is a long one. During the Eighties, the house was owned by David White Associates, a celebrity agent whose clients included the comedian Stanley Baxter. The long-standing residents of Ormond Road can recount wild soirees. But the property’s most famous party guest graced the house with his presence a little earlier. The British dip...
by Vanessa Beeley / December 13th, 2020 People walk past damaged buildings at the Yarmouk refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Damascus © ReutersEvidence of Dutch and British funding for extremists who’ve beheaded children & carried out ethnic-cleansing grows by the day. Yet most of the mainstream media – including the BBC – still try to keep this truth silent. Recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte effectively blocked a Parliamentary motion to allow an external independent investigation of Dutch government funding of terrorist groups in Syria. Rutte initially tried to deny his...