Kristen
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25-01-2020 01:57:10
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Nagasaki’s Mayor defended his decision to invite Palestine, instead of Israel, to the annual memorial for the US 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Despite threats of a boycott of the ceremony from the US and its allies, the mayor, whose parents survived the bombing, stood firm.
The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.