Author: PHIL MILLER

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Exclusive: UK funded therapy for Israeli soldiers

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Exclusive: UK funded therapy for Israeli soldiers

British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received the undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Delcassified show how the Yahalom Foundation – an Israeli veterans group – tells British supporters to channel their donations via its “registered partner platform in the UK”. “Processing your donation through them ensures you receive full tax recognition and enabled Gift Aid, maximising the impact of your contribution,” it says. “100% of your gift is routed directly to Yahalom to support our…

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How Media Lens forged a path for independent journalism

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How Media Lens forged a path for independent journalism

We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media is broken, cannot be trusted, and is far more likely to disseminate falsehood than tell the truth. So it is only fair to wish a happy 25th birthday to the earliest of these dissident outlets – Media Lens. Media Lens first published in July 2001. The timing was perfect, with George W Bush starting to mobilise ahead of the Iraq…

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UK used Cyprus base to ‘secretly’ move ‘sensitive equipment’

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UK used Cyprus base to ‘secretly’ move ‘sensitive equipment’

Declassified files raise further questions about the role of Britain’s Cyprus base in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza Britain has used its major air base on Cyprus to move sensitive equipment without scrutiny, declassified files show.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in a formerly secret 1993 file that RAF Akrotiri plays a “key role in support of the Priority 1, Category A intelligence and communications effort” on Cyprus.It added that “this secure airhead enables MOD and OGD [other government departments] to move sensitive equipment to and from Cyprus secretly and without scrutiny.” Cyprus is “one of the few areas where the…

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UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding

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UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding

Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers A major inquiry has been launched into British charities months after Declassified revealed donations may have been sent to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In an unprecedented move, the Charity Commission has opened an investigation into eight groups to examine whether funds are being used for legitimate charitable purposes. The regulator claimed the decision to open an inquiry was “not a finding of wrongdoing”, but said there were “serious allegations” about multiple charities. A spokesperson refused to name the charities under investigation, instead describing them as “amongst those…

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BBC censored film on British army killing child

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BBC censored film on British army killing child

The very highest levels of the British government secretly exerted pressure on the BBC to censor a film about the army killing an unarmed child in 1972. Official documents, recently discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre, also show the British Army was aware, shortly after the killing in Derry, that the boy had been killed at “point blank” range by an immensely powerful machine-gun. However the Ministry of Defence falsely informed an inquest into his death that he was shot from 25 meters away by a soldier who thought the boy was armed. The case revolves around the shooting dead of…

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US ammunition ship docked in Wales during Iran strikes

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US ammunition ship docked in Wales during Iran strikes

The Sagamore is a key vessel for keeping US bases in Britain stocked up with bombs A container ship used by the US military to supply its airbases in Britain with bombs docked in south Wales last week, it can be revealed. The move came as President Trump resumed using RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran after Andy Burnham granted permission, sparking threats of retaliation from Tehran. Trump used Fairford extensively to bomb Iran earlier this year during Keir Starmer’s premiership. The US air force sent so many combat flights from Fairford that its supply of bombs was running low,…

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Chancellor wants military officer with him at Treasury

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Chancellor wants military officer with him at Treasury

John Healey’s request has sparked fears about the military having too much influence over UK finances Britain’s new chancellor John Healey has asked for a military officer to accompany him at the Treasury, it has emerged. The move indicates how much weight Healey will place on weapons procurement after resigning as defence secretary last month in protest at Keir Starmer’s military spending plans. Chancellors do not normally have a serving military officer assigned to their private office, with the placements typically reserved for the prime minister and defence ministers. However, Healey has requested an army major, naval lieutenant commander or air…

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Revealed: Qatar and Israel top Westminster lobbying league table

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Revealed: Qatar and Israel top Westminster lobbying league table

Foreign governments and influence groups have splurged vast amounts of money taking British MPs abroad since the last election, Declassified can reveal. Israel, Qatar and Taiwan top the rankings, with charm offensives to promote the countries in Westminster. The Middle Eastern monarchies of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan also make the top ten. The findings are part of a joint investigation between Declassified and Consolidate, a political finance database.  Since July 2024, donors have paid for MPs to go on some 658 overseas junkets, at a cost of £2.2m. The majority were funded by private companies, charities or wealthy individuals. But…

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Five more Palestine activists could be sentenced as terrorists

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Five more Palestine activists could be sentenced as terrorists

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wants to sentence five more Palestine activists as terrorists for committing criminal damage, it can be revealed. Brendon O’Hagan, Amanda Kelly, Hmeera Atiqnisar, Mohammed Malik, and Alma Yaniv were convicted of criminal damage last month for a protest at a Barclays bank branch in Burnley in 2024. It was carried out in the name of Palestine Action almost a year before the group was banned under terrorism laws.  In the agreed facts of the case, the prosecution’s lawyers acknowledged that Barclays provided investments and loans to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. The court heard that…

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Israeli arms firms threaten journalists at UK airshow

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Israeli arms firms threaten journalists at UK airshow

Amid the Gaza genocide, Farnborough airshow invited Israel’s three largest arms firms. None wanted media scrutiny Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black drapes at the Paris airshow last year. One company at Farnborough, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), even threatened to report journalists to police for asking questions about its role in the Gaza genocide. IAI makes the Heron surveillance drone which its chief executive Boaz Levy…

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African leader’s grandson reveals why he helped Palestine Action

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African leader’s grandson reveals why he helped Palestine Action

The grandson of one of Africa’s most iconic post-colonial leaders has told a court in London why he helped the protest group Palestine Action. William Nyerere Plastow, 35, is charged with criminal damage in connection with a Palestine Action raid at an Israeli-owned arms factory in Bristol in August 2024. A further joint enterprise charge of violent disorder was dismissed last week due to lack of evidence. Plastow was arrested days after the raid and kept in prison without trial until February 2026, apart from a brief spell out on bail four days before his mother died of cancer. The court…

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SAS drove prisoners off forklifts ‘for fun’, Afghanistan inquiry told

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SAS drove prisoners off forklifts ‘for fun’, Afghanistan inquiry told

Special forces thwarted the ‘normal rules’ and were disconnected from rest of British army, witnesses said Damning evidence of the culture of Britain’s special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to the battlefields of Afghanistan, was released on Tuesday. It was disclosed by the judge-led inquiry set up in the wake of detailed reports of unarmed civilians executed in cold blood in night raids by SAS soldiers. A special forces soldier said prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq were put on the prongs of forklift trucks which were then raised and driven so fast that they fell off. “It was something…

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‘Huge’ cost of aircraft carriers meant ‘less scope’ for funding health and education

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‘Huge’ cost of aircraft carriers meant ‘less scope’ for funding health and education

“Vulnerable” aircraft carriers are about Britain “counting for something in the world” and being an “effective ally” of the US, declassified files show Tony Blair’s treasury secretary Alistair Darling told the prime minister that buying aircraft carriers was a “political” rather than a military choice and would mean less funding for social services.Declassified files from 1998, Blair’s first full year in government, contain deliberations among officials and ministers on Labour’s manifesto commitment to replace Britain’s three aircraft carriers with the two new ones the UK currently possesses.Darling wrote to Blair in June 1998 about the carriers and the aircraft to go…

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How Israeli atrocities fueled Palestine Action

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How Israeli atrocities fueled Palestine Action

Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join the Palestine Action protest group after watching “a live-streamed genocide” of Israeli attacks in Gaza. “I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children,” 53-year-old Hannah Davidson told jurors at the Old Bailey this week. “I saw a stray dog with a toddler’s arm.” Co-defendant Teuta Hoxha, a 30-year-old care worker, said she watched a video of a Palestinian father carrying two bags. “He was wailing. It was the type of wail that comes from the soul. “What he was saying was, ‘I have my son in…

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Israeli arms firm returns after Westminster scandal

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Israeli arms firm returns after Westminster scandal

RUK Advanced Systems Ltd helped fund a group of British MPs as part of a ‘PR and marketing campaign’ A British weapons firm owned by the Israeli government has been brought back to life, after its lobbying activities were exposed by Declassified last year. RUK Advanced System Ltd is registered in London, but records show it is a subsidiary of Israel’s state owned arms giant, Rafael. In October, documents were filed with Companies House to shut the business down, following our investigation. But it’s now been revived – and claims to be supplying British armed forces. Last year, we revealed how…

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Activist cleared of violent disorder in Palestine Action raid

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Activist cleared of violent disorder in Palestine Action raid

A jury has acquitted an activist of violent disorder at an Israeli-owned arms factory targeted by Palestine Action in August 2024. William Plaistow, 35, was acquitted on Monday at the Old Bailey due to what presiding Judge Patrick Field said was a lack of evidence over the incident in the Filton area of Bristol. “The prosecution has not produced enough evidence against him to show that he intended that there would be a violent disorder at Filton or that he assisted anyone to commit that offence,” Field said. Plaistow, who is from Manchester, still faces a criminal damage charge alongside seven…

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Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser loses Somaliland libel case

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Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser loses Somaliland libel case

When a remote east African city was being shelled by Somaliland soldiers three years ago, a German academic became an unlikely messenger for the beleaguered inhabitants of Las Anod. Dr Markus Hoehne, an anthropologist then at Leipzig University, spoke Somali and had previously spent time in Las Anod researching for his doctorate in the early 2000s. As the city’s hospital came under attack, his local sources provided a daily stream of information, which he posted on Twitter. Hoehne’s war diary helped foreign media outlets, like Declassified, cover the assault on Las Anod, which started when a police unit – possibly British…

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Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel

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Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel

Hamish Falconer ran through traffic in Whitehall when asked why his government allows British citizens to fight in Gaza Foreign minister Hamish Falconer refused to answer questions on Wednesday about the UK government’s failure to stop British nationals fighting for the Israeli army in Gaza. It comes after more than 25,000 people signed a letter to the Foreign Office demanding they investigate UK citizens who fought in Gaza and may have committed war crimes. Thousands of British nationals have served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since the Gaza conflict began in 2023, according to a Freedom of Information response from…

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Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform

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Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform

Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”. “As such, we should utterly reject it,” argued Richard Tice to a room full of MPs. What he did not tell them, however, was that he had been on a trip to “the Gaza front line” last September funded by the newly-created Reform Friends of Israel, where he concluded that the Gaza famine was a “blatant lie”. And that trip is not the only example of pro-Israel pressure groups working with Reform. Just a…

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Palestine activist jailed as ‘terrorist’ speaks out

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Palestine activist jailed as ‘terrorist’ speaks out

“Other than hexing the man, I really wasn’t surprised”. This is how Leona Kamio, known as Ellie, describes what was going through her mind when a judge announced she would be sentenced as a terrorist alongside three co-defendants earlier this month. Kamio, a 30-year-old nursery teacher, had been convicted of criminal damage in connection with a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli arms firm in Filton, Bristol, in August 2024. The jury that tried her had not been informed that any convictions could later carry a “terrorism connection”, she tells Declassified from Bronzefield prison in her first interview since being convicted.…

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