Israel’s efforts to influence Eurovision’s vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known. Some broadcasters wanted to ban Israel and accused the Israeli government of unfairly influencing the results through an orchestrated mass voting campaign.

Why is Israel permitted to participate in Eurovision? The main sponsor of Eurovision is Moroccanoil, an Israeli cosmetics and hair care company. The brand features argan oil sourced from Morocco but the company was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs and its products are largely manufactured in Israel.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, told reporters Monday that the outbound leader had diverted Hungarian taxpayer funds toward financing the American Republican conference.

Iran has accused Israel of carrying out a drone attack on facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco, describing it as a “false flag” operation.

Iranian officials said that the recovery operation at a primary school hit by an Israeli-US strike in Minab city in the southern Hormozgan province has concluded, with the final death toll at 165, mainly young girls aged between 7 and 12 years old.

The death toll of the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, has risen to 115. Most of the victims were very young girls, aged between seven and 12 years old, local media reports.

At least 148 people have been killed and 95 others injured in the US-Israeli attack on an elementary girls’ school in southern Iran’s Minab city. The attack occurred on Saturday, and the death toll has been climbing.

Repost from @ukfactcheckpolitics • 🚨| BREAKING: Israeli airstrikes struck a girls’ primary school in Minab, in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, killing 24 students. Israel and the U.S. have launched air strikes all across Iran, targeting multiple cities and allegedly targeting military sites.

The sanctions and oil blockade US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio placed there have devastated the people’s lifestyles, cutting power each day and making food unbelievably expensive. They survive by sharing what they have, but for how long?

The British Museum has removed the word ‘Palestine’ from information panels and galleries following pressure from the group UK Lawyers for Israel.

The placards have been changed after a pro-Israel group complained.

"The BBC is looking for a new head of its Arabic-language service to please Israel lobbyists. Mouthpieces for the occupation had complained it was too quick to blame Israel for its actions. The move is intended to force BBC Arabic to use the same dishonest framing as its English-language services."

"Online allegations about Israeli organ harvesting have resurfaced after a viral post claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought legal approval in the 1990s to take organs from deceased Palestinians for transplantation."

Declassified UK reported on 11 February that more than 2,000 British nationals served in the Israeli army during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, according to data obtained for the first time through a Freedom of Information request submitted to Israeli authorities.

The Ditch can reveal that 75 Irish citizens have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during its genocide in Gaza. Opposition first demanded answers from government about Irish nationals serving with Israeli forces – while they committed war crimes against Palestinians – two years ago.

After more than 80 years, Gallup is ending its monthly presidential approval surveys — as President Donald Trump’s ratings continue to hover at near-historic lows. Starting in 2026, the company will no longer publish favorability and approval ratings for “individual political figures".

A former British prime minister engaged in a ‘threesome’ with Ghislaine Maxwell in New York. It appears have been part of an ‘orgy’ which the New York FBI was investigating last July according to a declassified FBI email released by the US Department of Justice which names the former politician.

The Peace, Accountability and Leadership PAC was launched to channel the shifting US political winds on the issue of Israel and Palestine into the halls of Congress, and support elected officials advancing the cause of Palestinian civil rights and liberation from Israel’s violent illegal occupation.

Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. Experts say Israel used internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius.

The Israeli military have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of allied soldiers – including from the UK – killed in the First and Second World War.

"I don’t want to sound dramatic, but when a president openly calls for nationalizing elections, there is no non-dramatic way to describe it. Donald Trump is advocating for direct election interference, plain and simple."

NEW via @punchbowlnews.bsky.social: Virginia state senator Russet Perry is eyeing a run for Congress following redistricting. @russetperry.bsky.social attended the "50 States, One Israel" propaganda tour in Israel last September, where 250 American state lawmakers met with Netanyahu and his allies.

Cosmetics company Estée Lauder [controlled by Ronald Lauder a prominent Zionist] has been fined $750,000 after federal agents found it was using "forever chemicals" in some of its eyeliner products. The company has pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Israeli aircraft have been observed dropping unidentified chemicals into Lebanese and Syrian territory, forcing UN peacekeepers in Lebanon to withdraw from around a third of their area of operations after Israel informed them of planned aerial activity.

An email on the UK’s economic situation addressed to former prime minister Gordon Brown was forwarded to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

If America still had a Department of Justice, Bezos would be indicted for bribery of a public official pursuant to 18 U.S. Code § 201, which criminalizes offering or giving anything of value to a public official with the intent to influence their official actions. Penalty imprisonment for 15 years.

"In this episode of The +972 Podcast, Touma-Suleiman argues that by failing to fight criminal organizations, the state is effectively giving them a free hand. She calls for the creation of new arenas of struggle against Israel’s apartheid policies between the river and the sea [...]."

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani summoned the ‘Israeli’ ambassador after two Italian Carabinieri officers were threatened at gunpoint by an armed settler near Ramallah while preparing for an EU visit. The officers were forced to kneel under threat, sparking official outrage in Rome.

"It's clear that members of the IDF elite units, mainly intelligence, operations and air crews, demonstrated a high degree of conformity throughout the war. They are responsible for most of the civilian deaths in Gaza"

Mary Robinson has said that the US' proposed Board of Peace is not a board of peace but it is "the board of the power of one person". Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Mrs Robinson said it the Board of Peace is "a delusion of power" by US President Donald Trump.

Two Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, on Sunday urged Donald Trump to put a halt to his brutal immigration operation in Minnesota following the killing of Alex Pretti this weekend, in a clear sign that the media mogul is urging the president to back away

A father from the Gaza Strip lost his only son and his nephew in an Israeli airstrike while they were collecting firewood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. “Call the doctor to wake him up, please. He’s my only son, he doesn’t leave me.”

Donald Trump shared this as a photo and some clever person turned into a video.

"Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania." Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke The Insurrection Act and deploy US troops against civilians.

Federal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis on Thursday and transported them to Texas, according to court records and the family’s lawyers.

I know we normalize everything this thoroughly abnormal man does but to reiterate: the president is SUING a newspaper over a poll result he doesn’t like and claims not to believe. He is suing over a poll. Insanity. 25th Amendment territory. Again.

The US has formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, ending nearly 78 years of membership in the UN health agency, US officials said, Anadolu reports. The departure took effect Jan. 22, 2026, following the required one-year notice period under international rules.

Spain will not join the US-led Board of Peace, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday, citing concerns over its mandate and lack of Palestinian representation, Anadolu reports. Sanchez said the board is “outside the UN framework” and does not include the Palestinian Authority.

An app for boycotting American products has risen to the top of the App Store in Denmark following US President Donald Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland. The NonUSA app allows users to scan a product’s barcode in order to pull up information about where it was made.

There were "concerns over the UK’s commitment to international criminal justice, following allegations that British officials threatened to defund the ICC and withdraw from the Rome Statute in response to the court’s decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu"

"An Israeli strike on the central town of Zahraa on Wednesday hit a vehicle carrying three Palestinian journalists who were filming a newly established displacement camp managed by an Egyptian Relief Committee near Netzarim Street, said Mohammed Mansour, the committee's spokesperson."

"Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Aryeh King has sparked widespread condemnation after calling for the killing and expulsion of all staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), following the demolition of the agency’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem."

Israel has created a system of routine abuse against thousands of Palestinians in its prisons: severe violence, inhuman conditions, deliberate starvation, denial of medical care, humiliation and psychological abuse. B’Tselem reports the names of 84 Palestinians who died in Israeli prisons.

Donald Trump says he will "100%" follow through on his threats to impose further tariffs if a deal over Greenland is not reached.

Trump's message to Jonas Gahr Støre, first reported by PBS News, appears to ratchet up a standoff between Washington and its closest allies over his threats to take over Greenland, a self-governing territory of NATO member Denmark. Trump announced a 10% import tax on 8 nations starting in February.

Donald Trump has said he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace after he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, as he again repeated his demand for control of Greenland. In a message to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump blamed the country for not giving him the prize.

In 2023, Lattouf was fired from her job presenting ABC Sydney, a magazine-style radio program, after sharing a Human Rights Watch report on social media, which detailed Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians.