Last month, the ABC platformed an Israel lobbyist without disclosure in blatant breach of much that the once-venerable broadcaster purports to stand for.

Only ‘very small number’ of people already in Lebanon or Jordan will be referred, says organisation running scheme The Home Office is facing claims it gave false hope to the people of Gaza after it emerged that a new safe route for Palestinian refugees will only be open to those who have already escaped to Lebanon or Jordan. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, announced the reopening of a resettlement scheme for refugees at Labour’s annual conference last month. A statement from her department said: “Around one in four referrals will be for Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees, fleeing war and persecution.” Continue reading...

Since October 7 and the Gaza genocide, U.S. opinions on Israel and Palestine have drastically shifted. The power of Zionist propaganda has been permanently weakened, and the U.S.-Israel relationship…

Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students’ textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of…

The BBC's flagship Sunday politics programme failed to include a Green Party representative – despite the party's conference taking place this weekend

Finds from a site best known for "Britain's Pompeii" reveal prehistoric people adapting to change.

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

Councillor quits Greens for Tories over racism vote https://t.co/JE56ZBnjzI

The Canadian writer received the Swedish Academy's highest honor on Thursday, October 8. A master of textual deviation, Carson, who began as a classical philologist, blends poetry and popular culture, prose and verse, with both humor and erudition.

@noplaceforsheep https://t.co/VmoNCUNJDe Shlomo Sand on Zionism and the Invention of the Jewish People.

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City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks

While Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the absurd claim that he is waging war to "de-Nazify" Ukraine, his regime has a long record of collaboration with far-right extremists, writes Robert Ho...

Israel's desalination crisis exposes the consequences of destroying Gaza's sewage system, refusing to let it be rebuilt and failing to prepare Israel's own water economy for a worsening climate crisis

Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage. “Pollution does not recognise political borders,” said the Zalul Environmental Association, an Israeli NGO dedicated to protecting the country’s seas and shores. “The discharge of untreated sewage from the Gaza Strip into the sea is contributing to the worsening crisis affecting the Israeli desalination facilities. The wastewater contains nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which feed microalgae and cyanobacteria and may intensify their blooms.” Continue reading...

Five of Israel’s six water plants shut as scientists probe whether Gaza wastewater fuelled the bloom