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Whenever Israel’s crimes make the headlines, they are swiftly effaced from the public narrative as military and commercial interests take precedence over justice for Palestinians, argues JENNY KASSMAN
A mural depicting slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank city of Bethlehem
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the threat of far-right extremism is resurging – the lessons of history demand unity, organisation and resistance, argues SABBY DHALU
On Holocaust Memorial Day STEVE SILVER warns that the ‘double genocide’ theory and modern ‘revisionism’ are not just historical errors, but calculated tools for rehabilitating fascist ideology
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
LAST WEEK marked two months since the killing of the Palestinian-US journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin refugee camp as she, together with colleagues, were covering a raid on a Palestinian house by the Israeli occupation forces.
For once, the killing of a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the West Bank — a territory occupied by Israel since 1967 — drew media attention, possibly because she was also a US citizen.
We also witnessed the horrifying scenes at Shireen’s funeral cortege where the Israeli police attacked mourners, including the pall bearers, almost causing her coffin to drop.
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