RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure
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Israel’s new nation-state law is a dangerous step
Israeli nationalists celebrate outside the Damascus Gate after the Nation State Bill became law
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
ISRAEL’S apologists have always insisted it does not merit the epithet “apartheid,” but they have been cut off at the knees by last week’s Knesset approval of a nation-state law.
The new legislation, which has the status of a constitutional basic law, defines Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people and asserts that “realisation of the right to national self-determination in Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”
It confirms Tel Aviv’s illegal land grab perpetrated against east Jerusalem, naming “a united Jerusalem” as Israel’s capital, and designates Hebrew as the state’s official language, downgrading Arabic to one with “special status.”
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