Brendan O'Neill, How the West’s Israelophobia has made life hell for Palestinians

The human catastrophe in Gaza is a product of the delirious moralism of our anti-Israel elites.

A question haunts me: why are there still women and children in Gaza? This is a strip of land 25 miles long and seven miles wide. It’s a quarter the size of London. And for nearly two years it has been engulfed by war. An army of anti-Semites is fighting one of the dirtiest wars humanity has ever witnessed, hiding in civilian infrastructure to plot its murder of Jews. Israel is dropping bombs. There are gunfights. And there are all the horrors that attend war: death, hunger, sickness. And yet there they are, the women and children, fleeing the fighting and scrabbling for food alongside men.

DTNZ: Israel plans to move Gaza population to single ‘humanitarian city’

The Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the camp except for “voluntarily” emigrating to other countries, Israel Katz says.

Israel is preparing to establish a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian enclave’s entire population is to be moved, the country’s defense minister, Israel Katz, has announced. Critics of the initiative promptly branded the “city” an internment camp and warned of potentially widespread human rights abuse.

Mike Butler: Why the ‘two-state solution’ won’t fly

Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ recital of the “two-state solution” mantra while joining with Britain, Canada, Australia, and Norway in placing a travel ban on two Israeli Ministers ignores history.

Peters recited that mantra while saying that the Israeli ministers “severely and deliberately undermined that [the two state solution] by personally advocating for the annexation of Palestinian land and the expansion of illegal settlements, while inciting violence and forced displacement”. (1)

The two Israelis involved are National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Dane Giraud: John Minto - The man who knew too little…

Pat Brittenden’s BHN channel last night played like a cheap Southern-Hemisphere remake of the Tucker Carlson-Darryl Cooper interview in which the not-a-historian laid blame for World War 2 at the feet of Winston Churchill. Sans the professional lighting and radiant skin, of course. The historic illiteracy and thinly veiled defense of the most reactionary elements this time came from John Minto, public (and recently pepper-sprayed) face of the anti-Israel movement and concocter of Jew-Hunts, whose obsession for the conflict strangely never demanded of him a rigorous reading schedule.

Brendan O'Neill: Fatah is right – Hamas is to blame for the war in Gaza

It’s time we called out the woke left’s neo-imperial belief that Israel is to blame for everything.

So, there you have it: Fatah is now taking a more grown-up line on the Gaza war than most of the woke left. Where Western radicals are still running around damning Israel as a uniquely barbaric state that is carrying out a genocidal pillage of Gaza, Fatah says that, actually, a certain terror army called Hamas bears vast moral responsibility for this calamity. It was Hamas’s ‘adventure’ of 7 October that lit the fire of this war, this ‘horrific and crueller [Nakba] than the Nakba of 1948’, Fatah says. It’s true – so why can so few in the West see it?