Since I wrote my Declassified UK article, The Guardian has published 2 news stories mentioning Hind Rajab both of which describe her as 'a 6-year-old child killed in Gaza'. Is this the official line despite detailed investigations rebutting Israeli denials? declassifieduk.org/found-dead-in-…

Unlike the Columbia University occupiers, the UK mainstream media have forgotten about how the Israeli army killed Hind Rajab. It's as if the approach is 'move on, nothing to see here'. We can't move on and we won't forget. My piece for Declassified UK declassifieduk.org/found-dead-in-…

Columbia President Minouche Shafik who set the NYPD on her own students starts her non-apology in
Financial Times with 'the horrors of the Hamas attack' in contrast to 'the tragic loss of civilian lives in Gaza'. Once more Palestinian lives mysteriously 'disappear' ft.com/content/18432b…

Is there another Pulitzer Prize for irony? washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

Outrageous that The Pulitzer Prizes names New York Times & Reuters but not a single Palestinian journalist in this 'accolade'. Talks about 'horrific conditions' but no mention of the number of journalists killed by Israeli forces or the heroism of individual Palestinian reporters

Famous 'outside agitators' include Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Thomas Paine, Frederick Douglass, the Pankhursts, 1960s Freedom Riders, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara & so many more interfering people who should mind their own business nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-…

Solidarity & respect to students wherever they are for their amazing stand in support of justice for Palestinians - needed now more than ever counterfire.org/article/the-mo…

The student press’ coverage of the pro Gaza protests couldn’t be more different than the craven stenography of the mainstream media

Students & faculty at campuses like Emory, Indiana and New York University arrested for taking part in pro-Palestine camps have been charged with 'criminal trespass' despite working & studying in the spaces they're alleged to have trespassed on npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

The comment by Columbia's President Shafik (& ex IMF official) that puts 'damaging property' ahead of the entirely legitimate right to protest is just about the clearest statement I've seen of the priorities & complicity of today's universities columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…

This is the current The Guardian headline. If you describe the mobilisation of hundreds of riot cops, use of specialist lifting equipment & arrest & zip-tieing of student occupiers on a university campus 'entry' and 'dispersal', you're really not much of a journalist Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

If you're just waking up in the UK, this is what happened at Columbia last night - vast numbers of police arresting pro-Palestinian students occupying their own campus because they want to stop genocide. Will the headlines still be about antisemitism? Solidarity to Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

On message on my street in the California redwoods!Sending solidarity to all those marching and campaigning for a ceasefire & end to occupation

Revealing that The New York Times subheading 'Antisemitism on Campus' (which was used to report on the pro-Gaza protests at Columbia) has now been replaced by 'Campus Protests' - presumably because there just wasn't enough evidence to sustain it.

The usual playbook - repression and unwarranted accusations of anti semitism - doesn’t seem to be stopping the magnificent wave of support on US campuses for #Gaza counterfire.org/article/the-wh…

Starting my research for a new book on capitalism and the media by re-reading this fantastic book. Reminded that Sinclair's aim wasn't to improve the quality of meat but to change working conditions in the meat packing plants and to challenge corporate power more generally.