Hazzy Clarke

A shocking statement from Paul Holden. Both Laura Kuenssberg and the BBC have serious questions to answer and owe Mr Holden at the very least an apology.

Israeli MK Yitzik Kroizer on the killing of a Palestinian family by the Israeli army in Jenin: "There are no innocent civilians in Jenin, there are no innocent children in Jenin. I support the IDF soldiers in every situation, even if the incidental cost is children or women."

Both Reform’s Nigel Farage and Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer have accused the Green Party of engaging in “sectarian” politics after Green candidate Hannah Spencer won the Gorton and Denton by-election last night. But are these claims even remotely accurate? Middle East Eye’s Imran Mulla takes a closer look at the Greens’ campaign, which brought together people from diverse ethnic, class and religious backgrounds around a shared political programme, and explains why it was, in fact, anti-sectarian.

If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.

I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts: "To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza. "I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms. "To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing." The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.

First they steal your history. Then they erase it.