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Matt Kennard on X: "In this interview from last year Faiza Shaheen says Corbyn’s factual statement that antisemitism in Labour was dramatically overstated for political reasons “was really stupid”. She then says Keir Starmer had no choice but to suspend him. https://t.co/0mQWBRNCS0" / X

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Netanyahu admits to arming of Palestinian gang in Gaza that opposes Hamas

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Nato to force UK to lift defence spending to 3.5% of GDP to appease Trump, say sources

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocide

The fate of Gaza: ‘It all depends on Trump’

Scrap guidance for meat three times a week in English schools, says charity

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocide

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Pro-Palestinian Jewish bloc criticises the Met for failing to meet them | Morning Star

Labour MPs slam disabled benefit cuts as 'impossible to support': Letter and list of rebels in full - LabourList

Testimony from US government and military officials, and other experts, on the role of NATO expansion in creating the conditions for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocide

The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocide

What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab

Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows

How news coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype

Brace yourselves for the deluge

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How the media sows ignorance and confusion about the war in Ukraine

Gulf in US and Russian expectations marks start of latest ceasefire talks

Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain | Jonathan Freedland

Evidence that the US-UK scuppered productive peace talks in spring 2022 to end the Russia-Ukraine war

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Wages for Housework – then and now

Corbyn urges enquiry into Britain’s complicity in Gaza genocide

The art of the peace deal