Israel and US are plotting a smash and grab raid on Al Aqsa, the third holy site in Islam. King Abdullah II of Jordan, as Custodian, has a sacred duty “to defend and protect it if necessary”. In my new column for Middle East Eye I ask what happens next:
https://t.co/fJHdWDp1J5
"I shall vote today, therefore, not with enthusiasm exactly, but with a species of bruised municipal realism. Under current conditions, that may be the closest thing left to political seriousness."
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"So yes, Labour receives my vote today. Not because I am Jewish, despite the now inevitable attempts to drag everything through the prism of ethnically coded allegiance. Not because Sir Keir Starmer happens to be married to somebody sharing my own heritage. And not merely because Labour has at least attempted to confront antisemitism institutionally while others have preferred equivocation. Labour receives my vote because, amid all the smoke, mirrors and mediated excitation, it remains the only formation in Lambeth that still appears to possess enough institutional memory and municipal DNA to govern a borough of this complexity with any residual sense of fairness."
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Iran is not a monolithically evil country that represents the antithesis of civilisation. Meanwhile Trump's US represents barbarism. Irfan Chowdhury and I expose the twin conceptual fallacies behind the US/Israeli debacle:
https://t.co/BcSum2HInU
Why are the Iranians running rings round Trump's America. Could it be because they are rather more civilised?
Irfan Chowdhury and I write for Middle East Eye:
https://t.co/BcSum2HInU
The decision to drop charges against IDF soldiers accused of raping a male Palestinian prisoner is immoral and depraved. It also collapses the defence against genocide charges made by Israeli lawyers at the Hague. Irfan Chowdhury and I write for MEE:
https://t.co/EaECFdsp9x
To avoid Britain’s reputation being permanently besmirched, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has a duty to come out and make a statement, conveying that he is horrified and disgusted by Cameron’s conduct as foreign secretary. My column for Middle East Eye:
https://t.co/QFQlVew6q5
Yet another golden eagle decides to commit suicide beside a grouse moor. Either that, or the shooting industry feels it can systematically eradicate raptors with impunity. Weirdly, only one of these explanations seems unlikely.
It takes a lot of courage to face Vladimir Putin and put the important, tough questions about the invasion of Ukraine to him. Steve Rosenberg was magnificent, I thought — the BBC at its best.
https://t.co/FSHoTTrq2x