Mamdani examines legal options for arresting Netanyahu

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• Post published:19 July 2026
• Post last modified:19 July 2026

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is in “active conversation” to see if he can seek an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. The wanted Israeli war criminal will be visiting the big apple in September to attend a United Nations General Assembly. Mamdani: ‘He belongs in the Hague’ Mamdani’s popularity continues to confound and irk the Israel lobby. He has rightly said Israel should not exist as an ethnostate. Both he and his family have been targeted by Israel’s lobbyists for daring to show solidarity with Palestinians against genocide. He has also said that Netanyahu belongs in the International Criminal Court in…

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Exclusive: Liverpool’s Sam Gorst resigns from Your Party

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• Post published:19 July 2026
• Post last modified:19 July 2026

Your Party executive (CEC) member Sam Gorst is well known for his 2023 thrashing of Labour in the Garston local elections, and for being elected to the CEC as an independent. But now he is an ex-CEC and Your Party (YP) member after resigning from both. The resignation comes in the wake of outrage from the CEC, after the suspension of three Your Party executive members for attending a socialist event — leading to a unanimous no-confidence vote in the officials held responsible. YP parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn then controversially rejected the vote. In a message to other CEC members shown…

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Water failure now top threat to UK – where’s the institutional panic?

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• Post published:18 July 2026
• Post last modified:18 July 2026

After decades of under-investment by greedy private water companies, the failure of the UK’s water supply is now the top threat to the UK, alongside a new pandemic. Norwich MP, Clive Lewis, pointed out the news, which he said should “keep you awake at night”. So! “The @UKLabour govt’s National Risk Register now ranks losing our drinking water alongside a PANDEMIC as one of the two biggest threats facing the country” AND @andyburnham @EmmaforWycombe still insist that the private (and bankrupt ) Water Companies are the only solution https://t.co/gqWF1ZyiP7 — Allan Williams (@allanwales2) July 17, 2026 Lewis is right. The 2026…

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EXCLUSIVE: Man who wrote Sharon Graham’s first Unite manifesto now supports challenger

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• Post published:18 July 2026
• Post last modified:18 July 2026

Sharon Graham’s former Unite election campaign organiser Matt Smith now supports her opponent, Simon Dubbins. Having seen Graham in action as general secretary, Smith believes that another five years of Graham would be “an utter disaster for our union”. But he didn’t only play an extensive role in her 2021 general secretary election campaign. According to senior union insiders, he “wrote her manifesto”. Unite endured five misused years under Graham Smith said that Graham has increased corruption at Unite rather than reduce it. He claimed that she had appointed useless cronies to senior positions and even made up a “ghost job”…

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Graham blows £0.5m of members’ cash in Beckett legal fight and fails

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• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:17 July 2026

Unite’s former legal director, Howard Beckett, will have his claims heard at a full hearing after securing an employment appeals tribunal win. Beckett is suing Unite the Union — and current general secretary, Sharon Graham, personally — for breaching his privacy.  Yet again Graham’s attempts to have the case thrown out have failed, at a huge cost, as the employment appeals tribunal (EAT) has given permission for all 11 grounds to proceed to hearing. Skwawkbox has previously covered Unite’s attempts to use a technicality against the union’s ex-general secretary candidate. Unite, Howard Beckett and the media pipeline Apart from Skwawkbox and…

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IOF bombs funeral in Gaza

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• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:18 July 2026

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has just bombed a funeral in the Nuseirat camp in Gaza. At least eight people were slaughtered and more than 20 others wounded, though at the time of Mosab Abu Toha’s post, the known death toll was five. IOF use the Nuseirat camp as a slaughter camp The Nuseirat refugee camp has repeatedly been the scene of Israeli atrocities. These include the murder of 276 civilians and the wounding of almost 700 during Israel’s US-assisted ‘rescue mission’ in 2024. Four ‘hostages’ were rescued, including Noa Argamani. Argamani later said she had been in far more danger…

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Former Sharon Graham election organiser tells Unite members: “Vote Dubbins”

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• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:17 July 2026

Unite official Matt Smith played an extensive role in Sharon Graham’s 2021 election campaign to become the union’s general secretary. But in the current general secretary election he is calling on members to back her rival Simon Dubbins for the job. Smith’s commitment to a Graham win was so great that he said “we will all work so hard to get Graham elected as Unite’s next general secretary”: Smith was then promoted in 2022 to Unite’s head of Member Relations: Changed tune But now, after five years of Graham running Unite, Smith has changed his mind completely. Now he has published…

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Kennard: New book places America at the centre of global wars and fascism

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• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:17 July 2026

In an interview with the Canary, author Matt Kennard has said that to understand geopolitics the US must be understood as the global centre of war and fascism. And he dates the current wildness of the world’s biggest terror state to the so-called ‘war on terror‘. The Bush administration removed barriers that had prevented right-wing extremists entering the US military. Now they are running it – and at the top of both sides of US two-party politics: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Canary (@thecanaryuk) Kennard: “Extremists are at the wheel” Kennard’s newly-updated book, Irregular Army, “shows how…

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US says it will “dismantle” ICC to prevent ‘threat’ to Israel

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• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:18 July 2026

The US, through its ambassador to the UN, has said it will “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC) to protect Israel. It didn’t name Israel, but Israel was clearly the point — and, of course, protecting the US’s own mountain of war criminals. The attack came a day after warmongering US secretary of state Marco Rubio also threatened the court. Orwellian claims And Jeff Bartos was in full Orwellian mood, claiming the ICC is engaged in some kind of international takeover. The US has enabled Israel’s Gaza genocide and murder of Lebanese civilians as well as knowingly slaughtering over 160 schoolgirls…

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In pictures: London Irish embassy protest vs Ireland-Israel football matches

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• Post published:16 July 2026
• Post last modified:16 July 2026

Yesterday, 15 July 2026, the London Irish Brigade held a protest outside Ireland’s embassy against the planned Ireland-Israel matches in the UEFA Nations League. The October 2026 fixtures will be held, after the Irish FA voted this month in favour of proceeding, in Hungary and, behind closed doors, in Serbia. Irish football fans, outraged at the idea of playing sport against a genocidal apartheid colony, have been protesting against the fixtures for months. And last night, Irish people living in London took the ‘Stop the Game’ protest loudly to their own embassy: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/london-irish-embassy-hb-1.mp4 Organiser Frank Glynn explained some of the background: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Glynn-Stop-Game-Embassy-hb.mp4…

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Starmer dismissed Holocaust survivors’ anti-genocide letter. Will Burnham ignore this one?

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• Post published:16 July 2026
• Post last modified:17 July 2026

In May 2026, Holocaust survivors and descendants wrote an open letter to Keir Starmer for his war on anti-genocide speech and protest. As with their earlier letters, Starmer ignored it. But how will Burnham act… Now, the group has written to incoming PM Andy Burnham to demand the reversal of Starmer’s police-state policies targeting protest and speech against genocide and in support of Palestinians. And the Jewish activists are asking, “Will Burnham ignore us like Starmer did?” The full letter, which points out the prominence of Jews in anti-genocide protest and the fact the only abuse they receive is from Israel…

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Leaked documents show Corbyn rejected YP exec’s unanimous no-confidence vote

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• Post published:16 July 2026
• Post last modified:16 July 2026

On 13 July, Skwawkbox revealed that members of Your Party’s elected executive (CEC) had voted no confidence in three leading CEC figures. The vote was driven by the CEC chair’s suspension of three well-known activists from the CEC for attending a socialist event. Early reports suggested the vote had fallen short of the required two-thirds to remove the officials. But Skwawkbox can now confirm that in fact they were near-unanimous. However, both chair Jenn Forbes and party leader Jeremy Corbyn have refused to implement it. Procedural excuses The CEC meeting was quorate — it had the numbers required to be official.…

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14yo charged with terror offence for alleged plan to attack mosques

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:15 July 2026

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence over an alleged plan to attack two mosques in the Sutton area of south London. The plan, the latest in a flood of Islamophobic violence, was linked to “extreme right-wing terrorism”. The youth was originally arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, but a subsequent search of the address revealed “a number of documents of concern” according to the Met Police. He is in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ court tomorrow ,16 July 2026. “Very serious terrorism” For once, after months of the establishment ignoring Islamophobic violence, police officers responded…

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Cardiff Uni student assaulted by security staff for holding Palestine flag

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:16 July 2026

Security staff have twice assaulted a Cardiff University student — for holding a Palestine flag and then for trying to take a photo of them. The Caerdydd Students for Palestine (CS4P) group described what happened: As a student was on the way OUT of graduation she was physically assaulted and had the Palestinian flag ripped out of her hands with such violence it ripped her acrylic nails off. She was simply carrying the flag in her hands on her way out of the building. She was then assaulted AGAIN when trying to get photos of the staff after they refused to…

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‘What about Israeli terrorists?’ — Burnham ‘ratioed’ for supporting IRGC ban

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:16 July 2026

Incoming PM Andy Burnham claimed he would bring “the biggest change in our lifetimes”. But instead he is bringing Starmeroid ‘business as usual’. Burnham shows no sign of undoing any of Starmer’s police-state measures intended to protect Israel, and in fact indicates he will take them further. And he has praised Starmer’s attack on free speech about the illegal US-Israel war on Iran. As his first use of his rushed-through law, Starmer has ‘designated‘ Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) — Burnham thinks this is great. Starmer’s new ‘National Security (State Threats) Act’ is an extension of supposed ‘anti-terror’ legislation, clearly designed…

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F*** Messi

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:15 July 2026

Irish comedian Tadgh Hickey has a simple message as the World Cup progresses in the US: “Fuck Messi”. The Israel-linked Argentinian football star has been silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Hickey posted a heart-breaking video to his YouTube channel. While Egypt’s football coach has spoken out against the silence of many clubs and stars on the genocide, Hickey added no comment to his post apart from the pithy title. None is needed for those who watch the chilling video to the end: Fuck Messi. Featured image via Twitter By Skwawkbox Source link

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Bomb threat at Birmingham Islamic school ignored by national media

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:15 July 2026

The silence of politicians and mainstream media on Islamophobic attacks continues with a secondary school in Birmingham. After a string of attacks on mosques and family homes, Hamd House School in the Bordesley Green area of the city, had to be evacuated after a bomb threat on Tuesday. But apart from an article in Birmingham Live, the frightening incident has been ignored by government and state-corporate media. Birmingham school pupils evacuated It was reported that 450 pupils had to flee the building while police with sniffer dogs swept it for explosives. Israr Khan, boss of the independent school, rated ‘outstanding’ by…

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Filton 25: Defiant Ellie Kamio celebrates ‘terror award’, confirms sentencing appeal

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:15 July 2026

Ellie Kamio is one of the ‘Filton 25’ group of anti-genocide activists targeted by the UK government for damaging an Israeli death factory. In the sick farce of Keir Starmer’s war on UK, Kamio and three others were sentenced as terrorists despite being charged with no terror offence. The judge, deeply connected to the ‘security services’, banned the jury from knowing they could acquit — and banned jurors from knowing about his sentencing plans until after they convicted. Even the press were banned from reporting on it. But Kamio remains defiant and celebrates the ‘award’ of her ‘terror’ sentence. View this post…

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Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley win defamation case against Mail and Metro

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• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:15 July 2026

Right-wing rags the Daily Mail and Metro have been forced to issue “full apologies” and pay “substantial damages” to actress Nadia Sawalha and her filmmaker husband, Mark Adderley. The papers had smeared the couple with atrocious and completely false smears claiming they had made antisemitic statements. The pair announced their court victory in a joint video statement this morning. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nadia Sawalha (@nadiasawalha) Sawalha and Adderley ‘push back’ The couple said their victory showed that the smears had put them and their family in danger, but the win showed that it is possible and…

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Unite boss Graham accused of collaborating with Streeting to attack Miliband

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• Post published:14 July 2026
• Post last modified:14 July 2026

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, who is trying to win re-election this summer, faces yet more alleged scandal. She has been accused by union insiders of collaborating with right-wing, friend-of-Israel MP Wes Streeting to write an attack piece on Ed Miliband. The plan was to “boost” right-winger Streeting’s prospects under incoming PM Andy Burnham. Hatchet job Miliband was tipped to become chancellor when Burnham takes over from lame duck Keir Starmer. However, Starmer’s team, which includes the same people who ran Starmer, is now said to have ‘blocked‘ the appointment. The ‘Reunite the union’ page, run by figures close to the…

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