Delaying scrutiny will not make questions about UK complicity in Gaza disappear.


Professor in the school of law at Queen Mary University of London and is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences
Delaying scrutiny will not make questions about UK complicity in Gaza disappear.

Israel tolerates violence against Palestinian citizens to push them out, and weaponises anti-Semitism to pull Jews in.

The antigovernment protests in Israel are not about achieving true democracy, but maintaining Jewish privilege.

US president’s latest comments confirm Israel’s wholesale destruction of Gaza is aimed at removing Palestinians.

The use of Palestinian civilians as ‘human baits’ in Gaza demonstrates how racism informs Israel’s warfare practices.

If the world accepts the way Israel now interprets the principle of proportionality, genocide will become justified.

But there is one important difference between the two cases: The genocide in Gaza is not taking place in the dark.

Most Israelis believe the violence unleashed on civilians is necessary – and justified – to achieve victory in Gaza.

Manipulating international law allows Israel to evade condemnation for its war crimes.

Israelis are realising government failures enabled Hamas’s attack, but that may not be enough to bring Netanyahu down.
