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Netanyahu and Gaza – How Should Britain Respond?
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The Gaza Genocide has become an element in the long-planned continuation of the Greater Israel project, but it was initially an experiment. For Netanyahu, it was a test of the resolve of the western powers to uphold decades-old ideas about human rights and the ‘rules of war’ established after WWII, which were designed to protect civilians and outlaw the annexation of land occupied during hostilities. He must have been surprised when there was so little response when he started pushing the envelope, but as time went on it became apparent that with active American encouragement, and a more passive kind…
The Silence They Cannot Buy: Iran, Antisemitism and the Weaponisation of Fear
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Something has gone badly wrong with British political discourse, and the elections on Thursday will be the first formal reckoning with it. Three threads run through the disorder, and they share a single pattern: a political and media establishment using manufactured crises, convenient attributions, and the deliberate conflation of dissent with hatred to avoid accountability for its own failures. The threads are distinct. The logic connecting them is not. The boy who cried wolf (the wolf being Iran) When a seventeen-year-old lad is found with a petrol can after ambulances have been torched, and when a man with evident and…
Saving UNRWA Not Only Supports Palestine Refugees but Also the Rules‑Based Order
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The continuing existence of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is in doubt. The UK is uniquely placed to take the initiative. I’d like to start with a question, one I put to some friends last week when, given that so many States are happy to disregard it, they scoffed at the so-called international rules-based order. ‘Would you prefer to live in a world bereft of even the most basic rules of conduct,’ I asked, ‘or would you prefer the body of international law to exist, even if so many States violate it with impunity?’ My…
Oil, Empire, and Resistance – A History of Western Interference in Iranian Affairs from 1909 to the current conflict
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On 26 May 1908, a British drilling crew working for William Knox D’Arcy struck oil at Masjed Soleiman in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. It was the first major oil discovery in the Middle East, and it would transform Iran’s relationship with the outside world forever. Within a year, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was incorporated, and the machinery of foreign control over one of the world’s most strategically vital nations was set in motion. What followed over the next century was a sustained pattern of British, and later American, interference in Iranian sovereign affairs — a story of…
