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If anyone on the left talked about Jews and Israel the way Melanie Phillips talks about Palestinians and Palestine, they would be investigated by the police for hate speech and would never see the inside of a television or radio studio ever again.

PERSONAL STATEMENT: 6 years ago my partner of 40 years was diagnosed with early onset dementia. She had to give up work, although she was able to maintain a level of independence for a time. This left me able to lead PSC in its response to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. However her condition has deteriorated and I am no longer able to give the full time I need to the role of PSC Director. That job is too important to be done by someone who cannot devote the time required to fulfil its responsibilities in full. With sadness I have made the decision to resign. As many of you know, I am appealing against the outrageous conviction I received alongside Chris Nineham of Stop the War Coalition for leading the peaceful protest on January 18th 2024. The date for our appeal was confirmed yesterday as being December 14th. I will ensure that I am able to devote the time required to enable a successful appeal, and PSC will continue to fully support that process. I'm proud of the work that PSC - through its outstanding staff team and network of now over 100 branches - has done to build the campaign for Palestinian rights in the UK, in the past 10 years, becoming Europe's largest Palestine solidarity organisation. The movement for Palestinian liberation has been and will remain the cause of my life, and I hope and intend to be able to continue to remain active in support of it. However right now, my priority has to be my family alongside my court appeal.

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants. Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict. Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences. Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670? It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide. Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-1…

This man said not enough babies killed in Gaza is allowed by Wes Streeting to work in our NHS while suspending doctors who oppose genocide

I didn’t realise until now what a brilliant speech Professor Derek Paterson gave at the University of Michigan. You must watch it, if you haven’t already.

These deplorable depictions of Zack Polanski in mainstream right wing British newspapers normalise antisemitism. Where’s the outrage?

UPDATE: Dr Eastland Staveley, the zionist jewish GP who said he didn't shoot enough babies is reportedly back working for Leicester out of hours DHU (@DHUHealthCare, @Leic_hospital). Meanwhile, myself and other doctors are suspended by @gmcuk for opposing genocide & supremacism.

For a human rights lawyer, @Keir_Starmer has alarmingly little interest in international law "Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s breaches of international law closes due. Department will also lose access to database of 26,000 verified incidents" theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

If you don’t have a problem with this, you are the problem

Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates declassifieduk.org/strong-pro-isr…

She didn’t care for maritime law when Israel illegally ‘intercepted’ ships carrying baby formula to Gaza.

This has to be some kind of grim joke. Does Yvette Cooper not know that we've noticed that the Strait was closed as a result of the invasion. When there's a war, people do things like blockages, sieges, and counter-actions. The Strait was open before the war, Yvette.

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament. He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot.

Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.

So, let’s get this straight: it’s perfectly legitimate for a judge who is an open enthusiast for genocide in the Levant, to preside over a case of two people arrested for protesting against the genocide in the Levant? Surely genocide supporters should be disqualified from being judges at all?

Zack Polanski’s Green Party has demanded that Keir Starmer suspend Israel’s UK ambassador following the introduction of the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel #Echobox=1774986629-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/25985690.…

Your reminder that @Keir_Starmer, a former HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER, has said NOTHING about Israel approving a race-based death penalty. Absolutely nothing.

We have all been screaming this for 3 years NOW!!!

Just reflect on this for a single moment A renowned Doctor who practised in a war zone facing execution If 🇮🇱 is not a fascist state then all perspective of history is lost The 🇬🇧 must boycott 🇮🇱 now It must be made illegal for 🇬🇧 politicians to be sponsored by 🇮🇱 now.

Massive truth bomb. Former Greek Finance Minister confirms Iran is the ONLY country in the region that has not invaded its neighbors. He brilliantly exposes how Israel's brutal 1982 invasion of Lebanon literally created Hezbollah. The Western media narrative is dead.