I deplore how the German and western political classes have abused Holocaust memory to the point that publics have lost faith in its lessons.

A short note from me on the important new book by @martinshaw.bsky.social, "The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza," on the return of genocide, East & West. www.prio.org/journals/jpr...

We commissioned lengthy legal advice on the history, effect and legitimacy of provisions which made it easier to remove the contingent citizenship held by large numbers of Black and Brown people. goodlawproject.org/nationality-...

▶️ The Genocide that Changed the World Interview with @martinshaw.bsky.social (University of Sussex-IBEI) The conversations draws on his article in the Journal of Genocide Research and his new book, 'The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza' Watch now➡️ t.ly/XHVKh

Gleeful pearl-clutching over Compass publishing a (weakly-argued, but politically-irrelevant) paper by a former staffer has, of course, ignored the fact that the organisation published a precise and comprehensive rebuttal by no less a figure than Martin Shaw, almost the following day.

I’ve been interviewed by BBC Radio Ulster about my book The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza. It’s about 20 minutes long and begins at 12.36. My first interview with any BBC outlet in the last 26 months of genocide! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Bad faith and woolly thinking: pro-Israelis’ attempts to blame pro-Palestinians for Bondi, and the mainstream media’s platforming of them. Latest from my Substack. substack.com/@martinshawx...

I argue that Compass, which works to unite progressives in the UK, should not be engaging with Blue Labour, the strand most identified with Labour’s extreme new anti-immigrant policies.

This is just hideous. We're speaking to specialist public and terrorism lawyers in about half an hour to see if there's anything we can do. www.thenational.scot/news/2570443...

I’ve discussed the Gaza genocide and my general approach with Omar McDoom and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for the new “Office Hour” of the @journalgenocide.bsky.social. Some great questions and, I hope, answers. youtu.be/Qk1yTv7KJZw

For your diaries (3 February): join Peter Oborne, Nimer Sultany and me at SOAS to discuss Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza. Register now. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

France shows the UK as its future, as the so-called mainstream right prepares to put the far right in power. The previous ‘republican front’ with its taboo on collaborating with Le Pen has collapsed. (In the UK, the Tories never had a taboo on Farage anyway.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish

‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

A devastating take-down of the Shabana Farage asylum plans by Zoe Gardner.

This is the bit on seizing jewellery. Perhaps shave their heads as well, could get good money for all that hair? But again, this is likely to create lots of bureaucracy yet have little real-world effect because it is so hard to do in practice.

⭕️ Gaza officials warn of a full shelter collapse as winter hits displaced families Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel’s blockade of tents, tarps, plastic sheeting, heaters, flooring, and mobile sanitation has triggered a catastrophic breakdown in shelter conditions as the first winter...

"Outside of the most exceptional circumstances family reunion, will not be possible [for refugees]" Shabana Mahmood tells MPs

‘It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher.’

Labour’s attempt to triangulate the politics of immigration is failing in all directions.

The new stage of genocide denial: the genocide that never was is now over, according to the German government. ‘Germany will lift its partial embargo on weapons exports to Israel as of November 24 in a move dependent on the cease-fire, a government spokesman said.’ - Haaretz.

This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.

Full details of the detention of international law professor (and former UN special rapporteur) Richard Falk and his wife Hilal Elver in Canada, on their way to contribute to the tribunal on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Professor Richard Falk, the veteran human rights scholar and former UN rapporteur, was detained for four hours in Canada, on his 95th birthday, where he had gone to speak at the Gaza Tribunal. The repression of pro-Palestinian voices is worldwide.

Thank you for delivering such a brilliant talk at yesterday's symposium entitled "Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide" @martinshaw.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

My talk on freedom of expression in the new age of genocide. From my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

“Gaza’s destruction compares only to the most severely impacted cities in Ukraine. …The extent of damage is greater than… in any single German city during [the Second World War] and, on a percentage basis, there is more damage across Gaza than there was as a result of the US firebombing of Dresden.”

Can there be a Trumpian middle ground between Israeli genocide and some semblance of Palestinian autonomy in Gaza? US planners themselves aren’t so sure.

🔴 Israeli Lawyer Says Palestinian Prisoners Are Being Raped and Tortured Israeli attorney Ben Marmarelli says his Palestinian clients show “clear signs of rape and torture” — men walking with difficulty, covered in bruises and blood, their eyes swollen and blindfolded. In a Facebook post, he...

Ben Ansell demolishes Morgan McSweeney’s version of the ecological fallacy, and with it the basis of the whole far-right-oriented political strategy which has played a huge part in dooming the Starmer government.

I remember from the Bosnian war/genocide that many Serbian ‘fighters’ were weekenders from Serbia proper who’d return with TVs etc. looted from Bosnian homes. I didn’t know that Italian ‘sniper tourists’ were in on the act. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

“Measures used to ban groups such as Palestine Action should be restricted so that they are only used to protect the public from terrorism” Translation: Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation. inews.co.uk/news/law-use... Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

Yet another official review undermines the rationale for the ban on Palestine Action.

Legal advice for the BBC in the face of Trump (read the link).

It is indeed striking that the Labour government has made no attempt to rein in the Tory clique at the top of the BBC - on the contrary, they appear to be enabling it to wreak its damage. Obeisance to Trump and Israel seems to be a key driver of Labour’s collapsing integrity.

Unfortunately, the Telegraph’s lies are not laughable - they are proving very efficient in helping Farage’s Trump UK build momentum, in its drive to overthrow British democracy.

Trump pardons his election conspirators even as he attacks the BBC for a documentary that exposed his conspiracy. But the BBC is run by Boris Johnson appointees and the Labour government is cowering in the face of Trump. The centre is not holding and they are helping Farage’s Trump UK come to power.

“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said a source. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.” www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

Who’d have guessed it? The main BBC board member resisting a simple apology and reinforcing the right wing attack on the BBC from within, was a Tory government appointee and founder of GB TV. If you want impartiality, Gibb has to go. Nick Robinson on X:

The prospect that the Brexit-pushing, Farage-promoting, Israeli-government-favouring BBC may now turn even more to the hard right is chilling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BBC in retreat: this morning describing the 2 bits of Trump’s speech as ‘unrelated’ although of course they were both part of his pitch to his crowd to go harass Pence and legislators, to block Biden’s ratification. Trump’s actions further normalised through this confected row, Lisa Nandy assisting.

Author of book on Serbian genocidaire Biljana Plavsic: “I’ve been looking for paralllels; I can’t find them. In Germany, after the trials, there was denial. But you never had Nazis on TV, being celebrated, or celebrating the Holocaust.” - She should try Israel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Let’s not forget that the UK voted to leave the EU because of a racist campaign, that the Tory party went far-right after that, and now Farage is on course to become PM. Definitely no cause for complacency in Britain.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

‘To be held without charge and questioned under threat of criminal prosecution without a lawyer is otherwise unheard of in British law. At a port of entry or exit, this cornerstone of British justice no longer applies.’ Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I wrote about the way forward for the Palestine movement in the face of the Starmer government’s twin attacks on the right to protest. open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

The UK and EU need to legislate to stop this rigging of the public sphere.

So BBC Radio 4 asks why Britain feels more divided - and asks Michael Gove, the co-leader of Brexit, the longest-serving minister in the austerity Tory government, along as a commentator to discuss. I had to turn it off.

This is the Dominic Cummings who masterminded the racist Vote Leave campaign, so not really very surprising.