Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser says Israel is "actively fomenting" antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews: "It's asking a lot of people to say that there's this Jewish army of this Jewish state with this Jewish star on their flag, and they are mercilessly slaughtering tens of thousands of children, but don't confuse them with Jews," Moser said. He argues that the reported rise in antisemitism is simply a rise in anti-Zionism, "people reacting to Israel and the evil, wicked things that Israel has been doing in our names."

Do you realize just how desperate things have become for us Palestinians? That our best realistic hope today is for an Israeli general to win the Israeli elections! A general who opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, supports settlement expansion, has no intention of ending the war in Gaza, and has taken part in every war against Gaza since 2008! And despite all of this, I find myself hoping he wins! Not because I believe in him, or because I expect him to ever treat us justly, but because the alternative is Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir. And because I genuinely fear that if these men remain in power for another four years, there will be nothing left of Palestine or the Palestinian people except in history books. Imagine how desperate we must have become to pin our hopes on a general who took part in the wars against us, simply because we fear the alternative even more! We do not need anyone to tell us that this general does not believe in our right to a state, or that the two sides are not so different when it comes to Palestinian rights. We know this perfectly well. We know their histories and their positions, and we do not need anyone lecturing us about them. But what exactly are we supposed to do? Reject even the less terrible option while watching what remains of our land and our lives being destroyed before our eyes? This is not a choice between good and evil. The Palestinian reality is not black and white. It is like being forced to choose between leukemia and a brain tumor. Neither is a choice anyone would willingly make, and choosing one does not mean believing it is good. It simply means fearing the other even more. We are choosing between two bitter options, one simply less bitter than the other. As the Arabic proverb goes: “What is bitter can only be made bearable by something even more bitter.” And perhaps what we are hoping for is not justice, but something less unjust than the nightmare we are living through. How painful it is to have reached a point where we no longer look to elections in the hope of seeing someone who recognizes our rights come to power, but merely someone who might allow us to hold on to what little remains of them. So I will say this directly, without making any attempt to dress up this miserable reality: Everyone who has the right to vote in the Israeli elections and believes in justice for Palestinians should use that vote to remove Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir from power. Not out of love for their opponents, nor out of any belief that those opponents will bring us justice, but simply because we need to put an end to this nightmare. Because whatever comes next, surely it cannot be worse than this. Our survival in the face of their brutality may be in your hands! #SurvivalTestimony

Reject the Board of Deputies The Board of Deputies' declaration that The Green Party of England & Wales is a "racist" party would be laughable if it wasn't so disgusting.

The Board of Deputies boldly continue their campaign to drain the term antisemitism of all meaning. I’m hoping that at some point, someone, somewhere is going to realise this isn’t the best idea in the world. 😬

Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1

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📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out 🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/count… 🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION @ the UN General Assembly, New York >Monday 26 October 2pm EST/ 7pm CET Livestream details will follow.

Israel Used “Where’s Daddy?” AI to Relentlessly Murder Palestinian Journalists and Their Families imemc.org/article/israel-use…

An elected official looking at a maternity ward and seeing '300 terror*sts being born.' When newborn babies taking their first breaths are stripped of their innocence before they even open their eyes, we are witnessing a terrifying level of dehumanization. infants& babies.

This whole exchange with Owen Jones really is very poor considering that this is the Chief Political commentator in the FT. Its particularly insulting if you know the context of how the phrase "hierarchy of racism" gained currency on the broader Labour-ish left in the UK. I think it betrays a real ignorance of a long and storied topic. So some history... The term "hierarchy of racism" was most prominently included in the Forde Report. The Report was the result of an investigation headed by Martin Forde KC, a well-respected black barrister with a long history in tackling issues like the Windrush scandal. Forde'sc investigation was supported by a panel of grandee appointed by the Labour Party NEC - the likes of Baroness Ruth Lister, so hardly a bevy of radicals. Forde was tasked with investigating a series of issues filtering the released of the "Leaked Report." Very very very long story short, Forde was asked to investigate how issues of racism, antisemitism, hyper-factionalism and misconduct intertwined in the vicious battle for the Labour Party in the Corbyn years. Forde ended his report (endorsed by all the other members of the Forde Committee) by noting that some staff believed that there was a "perception" of a "hierarchy of racism" in the Labour Party, with antisemitism treated more seriously and given more time than other forms of discrimination. The Party's own response to Forde confirmed, over and over, that Forde was right. Indeed, the Party treated Forde disgracefully. He was briefed against in the media. He was blocked from speaking to the Committee convened to consider the report and its recommendations. When he became concerned his report was not being taken seriously, he gave an interview to the media - and the Party, outrageously, tried to gag him with legal threats. There are many ugly stories in The Fraud, but it still fills me with fury to think about how atrociously the Starmer and the McSweeney project treated Forde. Most people think Forde was thrown under the bus because he called out right-wing factionalism. But the real "sin" of the Forde Report was that it criticised the Party's antisemitism training delivered by the (pro-Israel) Jewish Labour Movement for being top-down, didactic and limited (a comment made by another member of his committee who insisted it be included - not Forde himself, although most people don't know that). The Report suggested that an anti-Zionist group, JVL, be allowed to deliver training to complement the JLM training. And for this Forde was ridiculed. Numerous commentators, including one from JLM, wrote articles attacking the Forde Report, accusing Forde straying into places he was not supposed to go. By 2025, Forde had changed his tune. He said the there wasn't a "perception" of a hierarchy of racism in Labour - it simply just did operate a hierarchy of racism in how seriously it treated different types of discrimination, and had disgraced itself by how often it had mistreated prominent black and brown politicians like Diane Abbott and Apsama Begum. Really, the examples of the hierarchy are overwhelming. I write in the Fraud of how Starmer's team directly intervened in antisemitism complaints handling to kick out members accused - often wrongly - of antisemitism. It brought in new, deeply unfair rules like retrospective proscription as a mechanism to expel individuals like Ken Loach who could never be found guilty of antisemitism but were still unpalatable to Jewish communal organisations. It was through this mechanism that huge numbers of Jewish members were eventually expelled. Compare that to when the conflict in Gaza begins. Dozens of Muslim councillors resign in fury. An unnamed senior source says Labour is "shaking off the fleas." The Labour Muslim Network (LMN) writes to the leadership asking for a meeting and a way forward to address wide-spread anger. The response? Morgan McSweeney texts a WhatsApp group that LMN are not good faith actors. /1

Netanyahu has vowed to launch a major operation in the West Bank following a shooting in Hebron in which two Palestinians killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three other Israelis. According to Netanyahu, the operation would be similar to “Iron Wall,” the ongoing military operation in refugee camps that has displaced 33,000 Palestinians from their homes, with those displaced still barred from returning. Iron Wall has led to what the UN describes as “the longest and largest displacement crisis in the West Bank since 1967.” The IDF has demolished entire residential blocks and streets. According to satellite imagery, 52% of buildings in the Jenin refugee camp have been destroyed or damaged, along with 55% in Nur Shams and 37% in Tulkarm. The mass demolitions were stark examples of the West Bank’s Gazafication. Now, Netanyahu is effectively vowing to expand the use of these devastating tactics, which he called successful, even further. This is happening ahead of Israel’s Knesset elections on October 27. As insane as it sounds, this is what an election campaign can look like under occupation. Video: The destruction in Nur Shams caused by Operation “Iron Wall.”

Israel Used “Where’s Daddy?” AI to Relentlessly Murder Palestinian Journalists and Their Families in Their Homes from October to December 2023 - my new report, the most significant article I've written on Gaza: andyworthington.co.uk/2026/1…

By failing to fully acknowledge the horrors perpetrated since October 7, the UN has abandoned neutrality, says Dr Alice Jill Edwards Read more from the former UN special rapporteur on torture here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

Masked Israeli settlers attacked European diplomats, a French mayor and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, prompting European condemnation. The violence comes amid unprecedented settler pogroms during the olive harvest.

This is how residents live near the Yellow Line east of Gaza: behind sand barriers, surrounded by fear, in tents exposed to Israeli gunfire. Every day, people are injured and killed by random bullets.