The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Polish state complicit in escalation of homophobia
ANGUS REID draws attention to the case of Tomasz Kitlinski, an academic targeted by a provincial governor in an increasing vociferous campaign of LGBT witch-hunting
INDOMITABLE: Tomasz Kitlinski in his element – the classroom
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
TWO months ago the Star published a letter I wrote with the Polish academic Tomasz Kitlinski, to draw attention to the way a far-right agenda was penetrating Polish universities.
A prominent ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party politician, Przemyslaw Czarnek — well-known for his discriminatory views — had just been honoured with a medal Amicis Universitatis by Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, where Kitlinski lectures.
Czarnek, the governor of Lublin province, has form when it comes to abusing minorities.
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