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Anti-semitism is on the rise here and abroad. But the BBC's anti-Labour agenda distracts us from the real threat
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
I WENT on my first anti-fascist demonstration as a teenager in the 1970s. Ten years later I began working for the Runnymede Trust — a body providing research and information on racism and discrimination.
My ears may occasionally need syringing but they are exceptionally well attuned to hearing expressions of any kind of racism or bigotry.
I turned 61 last January, and in the last five or six years I have overheard or personally encountered more anti-semitism than in the previous 55 combined.
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