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Trump helps genocide-denying Epstein islander Dershowitz tout book
19 December 2025 @ 12:55 am
The White House has told reporters that the US would be “lucky” to have Donald Trump stand for a third term as US president. A clear breach of the US constitution, which limits presidents to two terms. Trump and his chief of staff are both on record recognising that a third term is unconstitutional, though […]
By Skwawkbox
BBC finally mentions hunger strike — but still ignores reason for it
19 December 2025 @ 12:32 am
The BBC News website has finally broken its obstinate silence about the hunger strike by anti-genocide protesters — but only as two of the political prisoners ended their strike and still ignoring almost everything else of relevance. Mentions hunger strike obscurely The BBC’s article about the decision of Jon Cink and Umer Khalid to […]
By Skwawkbox
New government strategy ‘doesn’t do enough to protect girls under 16’
19 December 2025 @ 12:03 am
Keir Starmer’s government has pledged the “largest crackdown” ever on violence against women and girls (VAWG). But its plan currently seems light on details. And as Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza says, she’s still: deeply concerned that too much of this strategy will only protect girls who are 16 or over. More action to combat […]
By Ed Sykes
Will foreign interference probe ignore Israel funding Westminster arms group?
18 December 2025 @ 11:25 pm
Keir Starmer’s government has just decided to investigate foreign interference in UK politics. And one key question is, will it totally ignore interference on behalf of Israel? Because as a new report has just revealed, an arms company of the apartheid state was: temporarily part-funding the All-Party Parliamentary Group [APPG] for Defence Technology. This is […]
By Ed Sykes
Friend of Israel Reed’s review of ‘foreign interference’ doesn’t mention Israel
18 December 2025 @ 10:33 pm
The government’s Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced what it calls an “Urgent review into foreign financial interference in UK politics“. Un-but-ought-to-be-remarkably, the announcement does not contain a single mention of the biggest ‘foreign financial interferer’ in UK politics — Israel — even once. Instead, it refers only to the “shocking […]
By Skwawkbox
Video: Main Stream Media FINALLY cover Filton hunger-strikers — and it’s bulls**t
18 December 2025 @ 9:46 pm
The so-called ‘mainstream’ media finally broke their long silence last night, 17 December, on the ‘Filton 24’ anti-genocide activists held by the Starmer government as political prisoners. Eight of the group are on hunger strike in protest against the complete contempt for justice they are being shown. Hunger strikers have long been waiting for this, […]
By Skwawkbox
Palestinian prisoners — Israeli lawyer branded traitor for exposing torture
18 December 2025 @ 8:49 pm
Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have deteriorated significantly. Testimonies from human rights organisations, lawyers, and former detainees describe a system where overcrowding, beatings, deprivation, and isolation have intensified to levels previously unseen. Palestinian political prisoners have no visits The United Nations Committee Against Torture claims […]
By Charlie Jaay
‘Everything is worse since Drax came here’ – activists occupy Drax’s head office unfurling ‘Drax Kills’ banner
18 December 2025 @ 7:54 pm
Activists have crashed Drax’s head office in London demanding justice for communities suffering severe health consequences from the company’s pellet producing operations abroad. Activists unfurled a banner reading ‘Drax Kills’ and occupied the office lobby until security removed them. Drax in Mississippi The occupation follows a damning report published yesterday in the Guardian, detailing the […]
By The Canary
Alastair Campbell pronouncing on the Palestine hunger-strikers is truly audacious
18 December 2025 @ 7:15 pm
Alastair Campbell is the kind of man who, even if you agree with him, still manages to be grating. Like when the office buffoon makes an actually funny joke and you have to laugh through gritted teeth. It’s partly the war criminality, I admit. It’s also how he has come to embody that sort of […]
By Joe Glenton
Telegraph coughs up “grossly misleading” coverage of Islamophobia conference
18 December 2025 @ 6:50 pm
Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) has issued a statement condemning coverage by the Telegraph of an Islamophobia conference in Glasgow as “grossly misleading.” SACC, Decolonial International Network and Islamic Human Rights Network co-organised the conference. It took place at the Ark in Glasgow’s Southside on Sunday 14 December. Speakers included lawyer Aamer Anwar, MEND CEO […]
By The Canary