Throughout his rise he refused to call Gaza a genocide, saying he couldn't judge "things of that enormity" from where he sat as mayor. He is in Downing Street now. He runs the government that still arms Israel and shields it. The excuse is gone. What's left is a choice. #Labour #Genocide #Burnham

Burnham rejects MPs’ call to recognise Gaza genocide

Britain’s new government rejects calls from 80 MPs and peers to recognise genocide in Gaza and impose sweeping sanctions on Israel.

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The alibi being prepared is that nobody could have known. Dec 2024: what the wall hid. Jan 2025: the plans to build over the dead. May: starvation as policy. June: protesters as terrorists. Everything we’ve written, in the order we wrote it. #Gaza #Palestine www.plagueisland.com/p/palestine-...

Palestine: The Evidence

Since December 2024 this publication has documented the genocide in Gaza and the machinery, political, legal and rhetorical, that Britain and the West built to protect it.

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The ceasefire made Gaza vanish from the news. That was the point. While the cameras looked away, the map kept moving. The "Yellow Line" was built to creep, families displaced, homes razed. A land grab wearing a ceasefire as a disguise #Gaza #Palestine #Ceasefire www.plagueisland.com/p/the-line-t...

The Line That Stalks the Land: The Ceasefire as Land Grab and the New Architecture of Dispossession

The ceasefire was a lie. While the cameras looked away, Israel seized two-thirds of Gaza, drew a moving kill zone, and called it a peace deal. This is the land grab in plain sight.

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"Mothers. Fathers. Friends. Neighbors. All taken away by Trump's ICE."

The Great Replacement is not a conspiracy theory with edgy associations. It is one with a body count. Christchurch, El Paso, Buffalo, Belfast, all the same story, funded and amplified from the fringe to the White House www.plagueisland.com/p/the-great-... #GreatReplacement #FarRight #Belfast #Racism

The Great Replacement Theory: How a Racist Conspiracy Moved from the Fringe to the Mainstream

The Great Replacement is not a fringe conspiracy. It is a racist political project with funders, thinkers, politicians and a body count. This is how it works.

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One day the full record opens. The footage, the orders, the cabinet minutes. And the question will not be what was done, because we know what was done. It will be what you said while it happened, and whether you reached for the word or the excuse. www.plagueisland.com/p/gazas-dead...

Gaza's Dead and Their Secrets

A meditation on complicity and moral responsibility as genocide unfolds in real-time. When the full truth emerges, what excuse will we have? A Coming Reckoning

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365 sq km where the water, power, food and movement of two million are set by an authority outside the fence is not a disaster. It is manufactured. www.plagueisland.com/p/gaza-the-u...

Gaza: The Unfolding Nightmare – A 21st Century Concentration Camp?

The Anatomy of a Manufactured Hell

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One thousand days since 7 October 2023. More than 73,000 Palestinians recorded killed, and every serious mortality study treats that count as a floor, not a total. New from Notes From Plague Island: On a Thousand Days of Genocide. #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #1000Days #HindRajab

Twenty-seven people made homeless by men going door to door looking for foreigners. The word for it is not "unrest," - it is Pogrom. www.plagueisland.com/p/the-belfas...

The Belfast Pogrom: Meanwhile in Civilised Britain...

A Plague Island essay on the Belfast pogrom, far-right incitement, and the British right’s hypocrisy over violence, race and “civilised” values.

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He did not even manage to drain that swamp.....

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · last mo.

PRIORITIES. 🙄

Files? What files?

Weeks before the Lincoln Reflecting Pool renovation was even finished, Trump posted an AI image of himself and his Cabinet floating in it in triumph. Days after it opened, the water turned green and the paint peeled off the bottom. Then he blamed vandals. It is the whole presidency in one pool.

A girl woke from a coma. An Israeli strike had killed her father and three brothers while she slept. Her first question: "Where is humanity?" Ben Gvir's answer, broadcast to 4.5 million: "All of Lebanon must burn." www.plagueisland.com/p/where-is-h... #Lebanon #BenGvir #Genocide #WarCrimes

“Where Is Humanity?”: Ben Gvir, Lebanon, and the Broadcast of Genocide

Israel's National Security Minister demanded Lebanon burn. A 14-year-old woke from a coma to ask "where is humanity?" We have the answer. It is damning.

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Lowe's "Inquiry" opens by declaring that Britain "doesn't have a racism problem, it has an immigration problem." Everything that follow, it the report, is assembled to confirm the sentence it started with. That is not how you find the truth. It is how you get to a conclusion you already hold.

The Great Replacement did not start with a French novelist in 2011. The descent is documented, and it runs through every mass shooter who has killed in its name and into the mouth of a sitting British MP. New piece. Where it came from, the men it has killed for, and who carries it now.

National innocence is a political technology. It lets a democracy do cruel things and still feel decent — we're fundamentally good, so this can't be what it looks like. The vulnerable pay the bill. Innocence isn't a moral state. It's a mechanism. www.plagueisland.com/p/innocence-...

Innocence Is a Lie We Pay For: National Myth and the Road to Unfreedom

How national innocence functions as a political technology that enables cruelty, absolves power, and justifies the extraction of resources from the vulnerable.

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Coming in the next few days: our piece on the Great Replacement. Not the polite "they want to change the population" version, but where it comes from, what it exists to justify, and how it got laundered from neo-Nazi forums into prime time and party manifestos.

Seventeen Words Balfour’s declaration was seventeen words long. It took a century to read out the cost. Britain recognising Palestine now is not generosity. It is an invoice arriving late. www.plagueisland.com/p/seventeen-...

Seventeen Words: Britain’s Recognition of Palestine and the Reckoning That Must Follow

Seventeen words in 1917 condemned Palestine to a century of dispossession. Britain's recognition today is just the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning.

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A journalist asked Trump about the Epstein files. He called her "Piggy" and told her to be quiet. He couldn't attack the question, so he attacked the woman asking it. That substitution is the whole story. The insult wasn't a loss of control. It was a confession. www.plagueisland.com/p/fear-and-l...

Fear and Loathing on Air Force One: The Real Meaning of “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

An in-depth analysis of Donald Trump's "Quiet. Quiet, Piggy" comment to journalist Catherine Lucey. This piece dissects the misogyny, fear, and authoritarian strategy behind the insult, revealing what...

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Israel has passed a death penalty law for Palestinians. The settlers who burn villages walk free — most never charged. The noose only fits one type of neck. That isn't a flaw in the system. It is the system. www.plagueisland.com/p/heart-of-d...

Heart of Darkness: Zionism, Genocide, and the Apartheid State

When a state legally mandates that a Palestinian can be hanged for an act of violence, while an Israeli settler who commits the exact same act is protected by the police, it ceases to be a justice sys...

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This is the story of how a political theorist from Walthamstow became what UnHerd has dubbed "Labour's MAGA Lord," and what his unlikely journey tells us about the profound political realignments reshaping democracy on both sides of the Atlantic www.plagueisland.com/p/blue-labou...

Blue Labour, Red MAGA: How Maurice Glasman Became Starmer's Trojan Horse

Lord Maurice Glasman's transformation from Labour peer to Trump ally reveals how Blue Labour influences Keir Starmer's government and shifts British politics rightward through Morgan McSweeney.

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Putin calls Ukraine a Nazi state. Look at who's making the charge: a regime built on blood-and-soil nationalism, a strongman above the law, dissent crushed and opponents killed. The fascist is calling his victim a fascist. It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook.

Trump spent months calling the Epstein files a "Democrat hoax". His own Attorney General said the client list was "sitting on my desk right now". You cannot have a hoax sitting on your desk. Then, a week after the most damaging files dropped, the bombs fell on Tehran and the story vanished.

"Does Israel have the right to exist?" is not a question. It is a loyalty test. No other state requires its critics to affirm its existence before they may speak. Strip away the emotion and the demand does one job: it turns a political argument into a test of allegiance.

157 of the world’s 193 states now recognise Palestine. More than four-fifths of the planet. When someone tells you the position is fringe, the honest question is which fringe contains 157 governments and over eighty percent of humanity. #freePalestine

More than 1,400 people were arrested under terrorism law in the weeks after the Palestine Action ban. Many were holding a sign that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." That is who the law was built to reach. Not the killing in Gaza. The people objecting to it. #Palestine #Filton4

Radio Elon: Musk and friends are trying to foment a race war and the media is helping them In Rwanda, the tool of choice was the airwaves, today it's social media @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Radio Elon: Musk and friends are trying to foment a race war and the media is helping them

In Rwanda, the tool of choice was the airwaves, today it's social media.

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More than 1,400 people arrested under terrorism law in the weeks after the Palestine Action ban. Many holding a sign that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." That is what the law was for - Not the Genocide. The people objecting to it. www.plagueisland.com/p/red-paint-... #Gaza

Red Paint is Terrorism, Enabling Genocide is Policy

Red paint on military aircraft is terrorism, while Israeli genocide is policy. Labour's ban on Palestine Action reveals a war on solidarity itself.

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This is the world we now inhabit: red paint on military hardware is terrorism, while Israeli genocide in Gaza is standard operating procedure. Labour's decision to ban Palestine Action is far more than a simple law enforcement measure Read, share & subscribe www.plagueisland.com/p/red-paint-...

Red Paint is Terrorism, Enabling Genocide is Policy

Red paint on military aircraft is terrorism, while Israeli genocide is policy. Labour's ban on Palestine Action reveals a war on solidarity itself.

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Peace & Justice Project@peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Peace & Justice Project condemns the Court of Appeal's ruling on the proscription of Palestine Action.