I find these days, I rarely enjoy posting articles. I regard it as shouting into the face of the hurricane. It gets in the way of more enjoyable stuff. More than once or twice I have abandoned this site, intending never to return.
It seems that few read it; there are far more informative sites. Although, I would suggest, where Palestine is concerned, the BBC is not one of those. When the fabricated anti-Semitism 'crisis' brought about the undermining of one of the UK's more democratic political parties it was the BBC and the Guardian newspaper that may have done most damage to the Labour Party, thus also UK's democracy. Think, the public, some of them, knew what to expect from the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Spectator, but many still sought a more honest refuge within the pages of the Guardian, the late night politics of the BBC.
I would contest that the BBC's 'BBC Verify' site, as repeatedly endorsed by Clive Myrie, may well have been launched, at least in part, with the aim of undermining bodies seeking to question the Corporation's claim at 'impartial reporting.' After all, if the world's largest news corporation doesn't even bother to report upon an incident then, it might be contested, that there is nothing upon which to adjudge- as with B'Tselem's finding (Israel's largest Human Rights Organisation) that Israel was already operating as an Apartheid state, that its current actions in Gaza are likely to constitute Genocide, as with Amnesty International's finding, after months of heartbreaking research and review, that Israel is committing Genocide. The BBC would likely contest that Amnesty's findings 'were' reported upon- upon B'Tselem's ruling seems less likely. But the BBC is a huge institution- the pertinent question here might be, 'where was the news 'buried?' Not only is Genocide the worst crime that may be committed by nation upon nation, it's also, therefore, headline news! So might be a Human Right's ruling that one of the UK's (so termed) allies operates as an Apartheid State. For many/most who rely upon the BBC, maybe, awareness of Amnesty's report was effectively omitted, B'Tselem's ruling rubbed out!
This is not Gaza, the destruction in Gaza is immeasurably worse!
Now that Israel's Genocide upon Occupied Palestine is fifteen months ongoing the BBC and the Guardian are finally beginning to poke around at the edges of suggesting that it is Genocide. Too late! Too late, BBC! Too late and counting Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (toolmaker's son), Genocide enabler. Too late David Lammy, Foreign Secretary, future Member of the House of Lords, Genocide apologist.
I have made the effort to keep abreast of the ongoing War Crimes. The pain that has taken up residence in my chest is now 'a permanence,' so much so that sometimes I can barely stomach to look beyond the first paragraph or image of Israel's latest atrocity- how history repeats itself! But, I do look and read, because I have to. My pain is as if nothing!
* I have seen footage of IDF personnel posing as universities are detonated.
* I have seen female IDF personnel similarly posing amongst the ruins they have recently brought about, as if for some sort of monstrous calendar- one may well exist for all I know.
* ... watched Israeli fans chanting "Fuck the Arabs!" and "There are no schools in Palestine because we've bombed them!" later to see Starmer and Lammy misrepresenting footage as 'anti-Semitic pogrom.' It is unbelievable that either did not know.
* I have watched the US President Biden categorically state that he looked at photographic evidence that 40 babies were beheaded, others burned in ovens, women raped, false news that BBC amongst others helped to spread worldwide. Evidence has shown that no babies were thus killed, no evidence of rape yet exists- the BBC has not headlined this!
* ... watched male IDF personnel trying of women's underclothes, smashing various items.
* ... seen x-rays of IDF sniper bullets in the skulls and necks of dead Palestinian children.
* ... listened to a Palestinian girl screaming under gunfire, as she attempts to direct ambulance staff to where she shares a car with her recently shot family, until her voice ceased after a hail of machinegun fire.
* ... seen craters created by 2,000 pound US supplied bombs, in the midst of a camp of flimsy tents.
* ... seen footage of Palestinians burning alive, in consequence of sustained missile attack- our's?- on tented populations.
* ... watched Israeli civilians, including young boys, throw flour supplies from a truck and trample upon the burst contents, whilst armed IDF personnel watch and do nothing.
* ... watched unarmed, wounded civilians approaching along rubble streets, to be picked off as sniper practice.
* ... read about mass graves being discovered, hospital staff and patients, some with cannulas still in place.
* ... read reports of Palestinians being rounded up- doctors, patients, civilians- cuffed with cable ties and (I think the term is) 'disappeared.'
* ... seen images of amputations caused through use of cable ties.
* ... read so many thoroughly documented reports of torture being carried out in Israeli 'prisons.'
* ... watched and read statements and calls by Knesset members and prominent Israeli figures, for War Crimes to continue upon Palestinians.
* There is growing evidence that Israel has been testing ever more inhuman weaponry- 'Field Tested'- weaponry which is likely to further contravene international laws of conflict. Accounts are leaking through the 'Terror Dome,' of detonations capable of atomising victims to mist, reducing concrete to dust. Who worse than the IDF to possess such weaponry? Let's pray the reports are not true! Israeli use of white phosphorus against unarmed civilians has been filmed.
This is not Gaza, the destruction in Gaza is immeasurably worse!
The silence coming from current members of the 'Labour' Cabinet/Government rings in the air so loudly that it risks causing tinnitus. The Party has many more honourable members, Councillors and a few MPs, but 'Labour' in Government now seems to serve more as disguise than label. Like thousands of others I left (or was expelled/suspended) during the manufactured ant-Semitism 'crisis.'
I offer these few names as examples of Labour's updated depletion of any true values. Expect little during its time in office, which may well turn out to be a single term.
* Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (toolmaker's son)- consider the promises, pledges, whatever he has undertaken. Consider the statement he made after Labour's 2019 Election defeat, consider the values he pretended to espouse when he stood for election as the Head of the Party. Well Keir, they did 'cut off water and fuel and food and humanitarian aid! Rest now, your Legacy is written!
* Right Honourable David Lammy, likely future Member of the House of Lords- consider his many deflections of the term Genocide in Palestine, when judged against his statements on Russia, his past statements on Windrush (note 'past')
* Right Honourable Luke Akehurst- consider, as Secretary of right-wing faction Labour First, appointed to Labour NEC, from which position he nominated himself as Labour Candidate, hundreds of miles away, in North Durham, where the standing candidate was deselected not by members but from Labour Headquarters where Akehurst was an NEC member. An individual who would be difficult to describe without recourse to profanity.
* David Mencer- consider, Mencer was former Director of Labour Friends of Israel at the time of the fabricated anti-Semitism 'crisis,' who moved seamlessly to Israeli spokesperson for whom no act of Genocide by Israel cannot be excused. Another character difficult to describe without reverting to profanity.
* Baroness Margaret Hodge of Barking, Government Anti-Corruption Champion- consider, someone who actually screamed 'anti-Semitism!' during the fabricated 'crisis. She cited several former Labour members yet, curiously, never reported any as 'guilty of hate-crime.' During the ongoing Genocide she has travelled to Israel and posed for pictures with members of the Israeli War Cabinet.
* Baron Peter Benjamin Mandelson- consider, quoted as saying he 'worked tirelessly for the downfall of his own political Party during the 2019 Election Campaign. Mandelson said, in response to 'evidence' he phoned Jeffrey Epstein- serving time for child sex trafficking, friend of Prince Andrew- that he "didn't recall" phoning Epstein whilst he was in prison, lawyerly speak or not? Still he was appointed Ambassador to the United States of America by Starmer.
* President of the USA, Joe Biden- obviously not a Labour Party member yet directly and indirectly responsible for the immense damage there inflicted, via AIPAC and other Israeli lobbyists. Arming the ongoing Genocide will have him remembered as a monster! No doubt some are already lining him up for the Peace Prize.
* Baron Walney, John Woodcock, formerly Labour, now 'Cross-bench peer, former Conservative 'Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption- consider Woodcock fled Labour under (discontinued) complaint of sexual harassment. Still given peerage by PM Johnson, subsequently appointed 'Adviser' role. Accused by many of suppressing Palestinian voices. He unashamedly poses alongside Baroness Hodge and members of the Israeli War Cabinet
I have not linked most of this. I have done so many times before. But there is a sort of footnote below, linked:
* There is a very informative film now available on YouTube: 'Israelism.' Created by two young American Jews- Simone Zimmerman and Eitan (?) who have sought to uncover why numbers of (certain) Americans behave in a manner which has enabled Genocide.
* Mention of prohibited weapons' being used by Israel in Gaza.
* Article investigating misreporting of Amsterdam riots.
* Article that investigates BBC claims of impartiality. Names and instances are cited in the article:
BBC Director General Tim Davie
BBC CEO Deborah Turness
BBC Director of News Content Richard Burgess
Head of BBC online Raffi Berg
Sir Robbie Gibb, BBC's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee.
Chairman Arts Council Nicholas Serota
BBC Chair Samir Shah
Laura Kuenssbeg
Panorama 'Is Labour Anti-Semitic?'
* Article that investigates OFCOM's role
All of the articles linked are far more worthy of a read. Often it seems we are experiencing the death of proper journalism in the West- consider the role and the power of the Editor to dictate what we are allowed to read, listen to or watch! Many of those who continue to report on Gaza and other considered controversial issues face increasing harassment and threat from disingenuous actors. Is the UK Police Force now far more 'Mercenaries for 'hire'' than 'Safe-Guarders' of anything worth safeguarding?
When the Israeli Genocide ceases- surely they cannot smear their hatred across the entire Middle East- what will the UK want to report? Will BBC verify challenge the death toll as unverifiable? Will former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Keir Starmer? Who will be left to name the thousands of dead children, women and men (non-combatants and fighters)? As any survivors scatter, will culpable Governments, even then, dare to say, 'We did not know?' Will they callously pretend they knew less than we did? Will the guilty parties shout power into the face of truth? They often do but, this time it's Genocide!
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