A powerful and important piece by Peter Maass - 'I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.' #Gaza washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

And all power to Jamie’s work too

Glad to have participated and shared experiences with Brian Eno’s New Collective, called Hard Art. It opens and cultivates the zone of imagination and possibility to change the world. Bravo Brian and the Hard Art crew! news.artnet.com/art-world/hard…

IMPORTANT Syria justice news - On 15 April, a trial is commencing in Sweden in which a former brigadier-general in Assad’s army is charged with aiding and abetting war crimes.
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Very glad to be associated with this excellent venture.

This is a sign of things to come: Farmers warn ‘crisis is building’ as record rainfall drastically reduces UK food production theguardian.com/environment/20…

The world turned upside down.

Thoughtful article by Comfort Ero on how to think about 'the Global South' - foreignaffairs.com/world/trouble-…

The UK government is refusing to release legal advice on whether Israel has breached humanitarian law in Gaza.

Former Foreign Office whistleblower Carne Ross is urging civil servants to leak the document.

#BBCWATO

I will be interviewed on BBC Radio 4 The World at One about my experience as a whistleblower on Iraq and the need for the government legal advice on #Gaza to be made public

Six months on from the horrific Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens, it is tragically clear the Netanyahu government's response has been totally disproportionate

It's time for our Government to end their complicity and start leading efforts towards peace.

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A good summary of a conflict where nobody wins, the costs gigantic, the suffering appalling.

From one of the State Department officials who has resigned in protest of Biden's support for Israel's war on the people of Gaza.

Re: Israeli military probe into WCK killing - Ori Givati from Breaking the Silence told me it's not against standard operating procedure. 'The killing of innocents is not new to this war,it's an integral part of the way Israel fights in Gaza. SOP led so far to the of killing 12000…

To my former colleagues in the Foreign Office - now is a good time to leak the legal advisers’ advice on IHL in #Gaza . As a former whistleblower, believe me that it’s better to be on the side of truth. One day you can tell your grandkids you did the right thing.

More in CAAT's media release:
caat.org.uk/news/media-rel… (7/7. ends)

CAAT: The UK is complicit in Israel’s killing of UK aid workers in Gaza

7 aid workers, incl. 3 UK citizens, were killed by a strike from an Elbit Systems Hermes 450 drone. It's powered by a R902(W) Wankel engine, made in UK by Elbit's UAV Engines Ltd(1/7)
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My statement for ⁦The Green Party⁩ repeating our call for an immediate arms embargo on Israel greenparty.org.uk/news/2024/04/0…