Andy Burnham (in the Guardian) burning his bridges by failing to express a clear moral condemnation of Israel. His weasel words suggest he could be Labour's Kamala Harris, needlessly alienating the left and Muslim voters that are needed to defeat Farage - as they were to beat Trump.

This reply to @jonathanliew.bsky.social accurately pinpoints the weakness of his alternative to continued engagement with X. Read their following tweets - exactly my experience too.

Disappointingly simplistic of Jonathan to dismiss X and its progressive users so sweepingly, especially when he has no credible alternative and admits this place is no substitute. I use it for Gaza / genocide and it remains an essential point of connection and source of information.

ICC prosecutor requests further warrants against Israeli ministers: ‘the charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity’

I’ve written about Omer Bartov’s book, Israel: What Went Wrong? open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

As European leaders proclaim a values-based order in Yerevan, my article on the long shadow of the Gaza genocide in Europe’s crisis reminds us that as long as it is tied to Israel, Europe will not succeed. share.google/ujYNzP078nRV...

I just wrote to airlines facilitating racist and cruel 'one in one out' deportations. Join me, and write one here using this tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

I’m speaking in Brighton on the Gaza genocide and its large political and geopolitical consequences

I wrote for the Berlin Review about the long shadow of genocide in Europe's crisis. Drawing on the experience of when Europeans confronted US power in the 1980s, I argue that we need movements from below to challenge our complicit elites. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

If you’re in the UK, this C4 documentary on the Suez war that broke Britain’s imperial power is well worth watching, not least for its premonitions of America’s failure in the attack on Iran - like Suez undertaken together with Israel. www.channel4.com/programmes/s...

I look forward to contributing to this impressive lecture series on Genocide, Settler Colonialism, Modernity’ at the University of Potsdam. www.uni-potsdam.de/de/allg-sozi...

Dirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’

‘The U.S. and Israel have employed so-called “double-tap strikes” in their campaign in Iran. The attacks, which involve aircraft bombing a site and then conducting further strikes, show a callous disregard for civilians by the US & Israel, & may show a pattern of seeking to inflict harm on Iranians’

Ahead of direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, my assessment remains that the outcome for Lebanon depends on the ongoing U.S.-Iran contest of wills and "negotiation through fire" in the Gulf: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

It’s good that @davidallengreen.bsky.social wrote about this as a ‘genocidal’ threat. I’d just point out that Prospect has never published an article recognising the *actual* genocide that Israel has committed in Gaza.

The excellent Declassified putting the mainstream media to shame with a full expose of the role of UK bases in the US’s illegal war. Essential viewing.

This is reported in the US press but will the BBC or even Channel Four news mention it?

Baedeker raids.

Remember the campaign for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? Where is the campaign for a tribunal to try the US-Israeli aggression against Iran? Or maybe one body could try both cases? www.coe.int/be/web/porta...

Imagine how much more Farage’s Trump UK would be hurting if Labour had come out clearly against the disastrous US-Israeli war and was clearly blaming Farage for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/morningc...

Why does the UK government have to assist the illegal US war, when Trump and Hegseth treat it with contempt?

BBC TV news reporting Tiger Woods’ arrest at great length but not a mention of the half million strong march against the far right in London today.

Problems with the link - here’s the correct one: open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

I’ve written about the implications of the war and the Gaza genocide for British politics. The Greens can be the voice of the left and help mobilise the coaltion needed to stop Farage. I put my cards on the table - I’m joining them. open.substack.com/pub/martinshaw…

Essential reading: deaths in the first Covid wave could have been much lower and the second wave could have been largely avoided. The report lays out missed opportunities, delayed decisions, refusal to learn, failure to believe advice, and general unseriousness on the part of the Tory government.

Disturbing dismissal of director of Armenian Genocide Museum following JD Vance visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan. keghart.org/whitehorn-cr...

In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.

Canada, like the UK, enabling the illegal US aggression against Iran despite what its leaders say.

‘Around 50 magistrates gathered in the courthouse of the southern city of Naples to ​follow the count and started singing the anti-fascist anthem of resistance "Bella Ciao" when it became clear the government had lost.’

‘Do you remember the days when the world already knew there was a Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan and that it was spreading rapidly, but you were not under lockdown yet? This stage of the US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran is another such moment. The shock is here. The shockwaves are on their way.’

I’m in conversation in London on 12 April with Na’amod, a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end their community’s support for apartheid and occupation, and to mobilise it in the struggle for dignity, freedom and democracy for all Palestinians and Israelis. actionnetwork.org/events/the-n...

I’m not sure this is exclusive to Scotland. Farage has spent decades distinguishing himself from ‘overt racism’ - but is he still bothering?

The importance of the Rohingya genocide case in the ICJ, including for the Gaza case. eastasiaforum.org/2026/03/17/t...

One diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The time is long past for a much more definitive break between Europe (including the UK) and the USA. But I wouldn’t bet on it happening.

The UK *is* at war, since Starmer is allowing the USA to bomb Iran from RAF Fairford. It just suits him, Trump and even Iran, for different reasons, to pretend otherwise.

A nuanced take on Gailsgate finds problems with the column - but this doesn’t exonerate those who deliberately took quotes out of context to exaggerate its issues.

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Important connections: arms sales, conflict and refugee flows.

No, the only response is why haven’t Starmer’s actions lived up to his protestations of non-involvement? The UK *has* allowed the US to bomb Iran from its bases. Don’t be fooled by the Israelis’ failure to be grateful.

Sending ships will just encourage Trump. The way for the UK to get the Strait of Hormuz clear is to get him to end his catastrophic and illegal war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Good that Ed Davey is highlighting the dependence of UK nuclear weapons systems on the USA - but pursuing the C20 fantasy of a wholly independent British ‘deterrent’ shows that he’s not serious about European security, which needs cooperation but not nukes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Netherlands submitted an intervention to the ICJ in the case of South Africa against Israel, supportive of the arguments that Israel's conduct amounts to genocide. It's the third such intervention from an EU member, after Spain and Belgium.

This is not a legitimate perspective. Genocide is bring committed in Gaza and Sudan. Nothing that is happening in Britain is remotely comparable. GB News should be censored for promoting this dangerous nonsense.

The British nuclear ‘deterrent’: ‘It isn’t British. It isn’t independent. And it will not deter.’ - Labour manifesto 1964. Sixty years on, nothing has changed. Time to disengage.

The genocide prevention field has gone the same way; genocide participation is more in vogue.

What if mainstream media told them what Labour is actually doing, i.e. allowing the USA to bomb Iran but pretending this is “defensive”?

The trivialisation and abuse of the genocide idea by far-right actors accompanies their complicity in Israel’s actual genocide in Gaza.

"If you look at the pattern of conduct, the language of the perpetrators, and the acts committed against this particular group - or two particular groups - the only reasonable inference you can draw is that intent." www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-u... #KeepEyesonSudan #genocide