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Wes Streeting said Israel was committing war crimes. What now?

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Wes Streeting said Israel was committing war crimes. What now?

Andy Burnham’s new defence secretary is now responsible for the military treaty with a country he believes exhibits “rogue state behaviour” Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp.“Their government talks the languages of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutality against women and children.”In messages that Streeting released earlier…

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Influence operation: How an Arabic media outlet was linked to Israeli intelligence

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Influence operation: How an Arabic media outlet was linked to Israeli intelligence

A prominent Arabic-language media outlet appears to have ties to Israeli intelligence. Jusoor, which boasts 11 million Facebook followers and bills itself as the “pulse of the Arab street”, may be anything but an ordinary news outlet, according to leaked documents seen by +972 Magazine. +972 reported on 13 July that Jusoor: describes itself as an “independent media platform” that is “not affiliated with any political entity” and seeks out stories that “reflect the pulse of all societies and peoples” in the Middle East and North Africa. The publication’s main output consists of short video segments circulated largely through social media,…

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Majority of voters think Farage was wrong over undeclared gifts

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Majority of voters think Farage was wrong over undeclared gifts

As we’ve extensively reported, Nigel Farage is facing criticism over the various gifts and donations he’s failed to declare. He’s also facing multiple investigations into the same cases. Unsuprisingly, the public is largely unimpressed with this state of affairs. Farage spent years complaining the establishment ignored “the will of the people”. Now 60% of voters – AND half of Reform voters – think he behaved incorrectly over gifts and donations. Funny how quickly “the people” become “the establishment” when they stop believing Nigel… pic.twitter.com/3AVuhYD0dd — Liz Webster (@LizWebsterSBF) July 13, 2026 Nigel Farage vs the public Farage has multiple ongoing scandals…

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Farage speculates Ann Widdecombe death was ‘premeditated murder’

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Farage speculates Ann Widdecombe death was ‘premeditated murder’

Nigel Farage has speculated that Ann Widdecombe was the victim of “premeditated murder”. He’s attracting controversy for the statement; especially because he also said ‘it doesn’t pay to speculate’ at this time: Devon and Cornwall Police: “We would ask people not to speculate about what might have happened, particularly on social media.” Nigel Farage: “From what I can see of it, from what I can make out, this was premeditated murder.” — Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) July 11, 2026 Speculation On 10 July, Joe Glenton reported the following of Widdecombe: A 26-year-old white male suspect has been arrested after former Tory minister and Reform UK politician…

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Why was Bosnian support for Palestine so passionate during the World Cup?

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Why was Bosnian support for Palestine so passionate during the World Cup?

The sight of Bosnian fans at the World Cup raising Palestinian flags, chanting for Gaza, and showing solidarity in the stands and on American streets was more than just sympathy for a people enduring a cruel war. Rather, it seemed like a retrieval of a personal and collective memory that has not left them for three decades. While millions of fans around the world were watching what was happening in Gaza from afar, many Bosnians were reliving their own lives. They were not just spectators; they saw a part of their past in every image. Every scene from Gaza brings back…

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A New Lowe: far-right UK politician tells Joe Rogan Dunblane school massacre was ‘one murder’

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A New Lowe: far-right UK politician tells Joe Rogan Dunblane school massacre was ‘one murder’

Hard-right Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe has caused uproar by telling grating Yank podcaster Joe Rogan that the 1996 Dunblane massacre was only ‘one murder’.  The tone-deaf right-winger also lamented that his father lost his pistols due to changes in law brought in after the killings. Well, boo-bloody-hoo, for daddy. The Oxford-educated ex-banker was talking about UK gun laws with Rogan, who is himself the human embodiment of divorced-man-whose-kids-won’t-speak-to-them energy. Let’s get this straight. In March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, an alleged nonce, walked into a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and massacred 16 primary school pupils and a teacher. He stalked…

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Intelligence watchdog finds MI5 knew agent was abusive far-right misogynist

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Intelligence watchdog finds MI5 knew agent was abusive far-right misogynist

MI5 was fully aware that an agent it employed was a far-right misogynist abuser who was obsessed with violence. The office of the investigatory powers commissioner (IPCO) watchdog has now said none of this appeared to concern the agent’s MI5 handlers. A woman, known only as X, whom the agent brutally abused, has called for a full apology. Legal magazine the Justice Gap reported on 7 July: MI5 enacted a cover up after one of their agents, a neo-Nazi obsessed with violence, attacked his then partner, known as Beth. Adding: Following reporting by the BBC, about which the government took legal…

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Trump’s empty State Fair was his biggest embarrassment yet

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Trump’s empty State Fair was his biggest embarrassment yet

Donald Trump is no stranger to embarrassment, and yet he may have topped himself with the Great American State Fair: Lmao is this a real picture from Trump’s state fair? pic.twitter.com/Fe7Tok0YMV — Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 29, 2026 The absolute state (Fair) of it This is how the Trump regime described the fair: A world-class exposition and modern-day World’s Fair celebrating the people, traditions, innovations, and spirit that make America the greatest nation on Earth. Featuring more than 150 exhibits from all 56 states and territories, businesses, innovators, and civic organizations, the Great American State Fair will…

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Andy Burnham was funded by director of Gaza genocide-linked arms firm

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Andy Burnham was funded by director of Gaza genocide-linked arms firm

Any illusions of Labour Party “change” under Andy Burnham were dispelled last week when he appointed lobbyist, Blairite minister, ex-Labour Friends of Israel chair, and Peter Mandelson’s “boy” James Purnell as his chief of staff. The line from Team Burnham is that Purnell has cut all ties with Flint Global, the lobbying firm he led and held shares in until last week. But it seems that the firm has a history when it comes to conflicts of interest. Flint Global Flint Global’s current Defence Advisory Practice lead, James Clark, was previously outed as being a co-founder of the All Party Parliamentary…

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Israel was behind 25% of the world’s violations against children in 2025

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Israel was behind 25% of the world’s violations against children in 2025

Save the Children has responded to a new UN report by highlighting that Israel was responsible for at least one in four of the world’s violations against children in 2025. And it stressed that, because only a minority of violations receive verification: these figures are just the tip of the iceberg With this in mind, the charity called on the UK government to: end its complicity and suspend all arms sales to Israel, suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement, and hold all perpetrators of grave violations to account. The UN's latest Children and Armed Conflict report has found Israeli forces…

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Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Well, that’s it, Starmer has finally shuffled off. From behind his sad beige podium, the sad beige prime minister announced he would be resigning. Speaking outside Downing Street, Starmer boasted about ending austerity and working to improve Britain for all. However, for disabled people, Starmer’s short reign was even more dangerous than the Tories. When Labour got in, it was a small glimmer of hope; surely they couldn’t be as cruel as the Tories? But Starmer heard that and went ‘hold my beer’. Starmer’s Labour far crueller than the Tories From the outset, Starmer’s government has been focused on change for…

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The Lemkin Institute’s demolition of the EHRC’s anti-trans code was systematic

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The Lemkin Institute’s demolition of the EHRC’s anti-trans code was systematic

As the Canary previously reported, on 20 June the Lemkin Institute — a major international genocide watchdog organisation — issued a condemnation of the EHRC’s anti-trans Code of Practice.  In our previous article, we covered why the institute was naming the anti-trans movement in the UK as genocidal. Here, we’ll take a look at the lengthy statement’s systematic demolition of key points from both the code itself and the assumptions behind it. If you can’t make it through the whole thing, don’t worry. It boils down to one simple point:  The EHRC was not required to make its guidance as trans exclusionary as possible,…

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Avi Lewis ruins Canada PM Mark Carney over ‘Iran war was worth it’ gaffe

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Avi Lewis ruins Canada PM Mark Carney over ‘Iran war was worth it’ gaffe

Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Avi Lewis has just rinsed ex-banker PM Mark Carney over a bizarre claim that the US war on Iran was “worth it”. Lewis said Carney’s comments were ‘disturbing’ and an ‘insult’ to Iranians killed by the “imperial’ war of aggression. He also said the war had harmed the Canadian workers hit with higher costs for basic necessities. Lewis — think Jeremy Corbyn plus Zack Polanski plus a bit of Naomi Klein (he is the left-wing author’s husband) — is the socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist Jewish leader of Canada’s most left-wing electoral party. Lewis was responding…

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Barrister in Ukrainians’ ‘Starmer arson’ trial says huge amount was covered up

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Barrister in Ukrainians’ ‘Starmer arson’ trial says huge amount was covered up

Senior criminal law barrister Dominic D’Souza acted for one of the Ukrainians accused — and acquitted this week — of setting fire to properties belonging to Keir Starmer. The defendants were allegedly ‘rent boys’ — a factor largely ignored by UK ‘mainstream’ media. And D’Souza says that he was astonished — his word was ‘pickled’ — by how much of what went on was ignored or even buried by prosecution and judge in the case. Two men were convicted in the case. D’Souza’s client Petro Pochynok was acquitted. But when D’Souza read journalist Crispin Flintoff’s X post about the BBC’s unmerited…

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Update: Salma Yaqoob was victim of Birmingham arson attack

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Update: Salma Yaqoob was victim of Birmingham arson attack

Green activist and former Respect party parliamentary candidate Salma Yaqoob was the target of the arson attack in Birmingham that Skwawkbox reported earlier today, 5 June 2026. The local Green party has issued a statement of solidarity with Yaqoob and her family: Birmingham Green Party expresses solidarity with the Yaqoob family after the shocking arson attack on a car outside their family home. Many of our councillors, activists and supporters know members of the family well and admire their commitment to equality, justice and peace. The fact that nobody was injured is down to quick thinking by family members who were…

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Former BBC Middle East correspondent: broadcaster was central to ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam

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Former BBC Middle East correspondent: broadcaster was central to ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam

The BBC’s former Middle East correspondent has described how the broadcaster was a “prime mover” in the ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam that helped topple Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Tim Llewellyn was writing a review, for Electronic Intifada, of Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s new book Killing Corbynism: Zionism’s War on Socialism. Llewellyn says that the BBC generated a “tidal wave of lies and misreporting” on Corbyn’s party and the left in general. He adds that this tidal wave was so large — and so unchallenged by so-called ‘mainstream’ journalists — that it is routinely parroted as fact. Often by those same hacks, despite being entirely…

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Reform is pretending its Makerfield candidate was Action Man

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Reform is pretending its Makerfield candidate was Action Man

Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election is one Robert Kenyon. So far, Kenyon has attracted a great deal of criticism for the things he’s said in the past and the things he’s saying right now. Kenyon isn’t the only one talking nonsense, however, with his party joining in too: He was a Lance Corporal in the Army Reserves. Stop trying to make it out as anything more than it is. He’s also a sexist and a perv. pic.twitter.com/O2Urc8Q0J2 — Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) May 26, 2026 Reform gets territorial As Reform Exposed notes above, Kenyon was a member of…

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Reform’s Makerfield candidate was a Remainer

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Reform’s Makerfield candidate was a Remainer

Robert Kenyon, Reform’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, is reported to have voted to remain in the European Union. This could be something of a problem too because Reform wouldn’t exist if not for the campaign to leave the EU. NEW: Reform UK's Makerfield candidate Robert Kenyon said in 2019 that he did not vote for Brexit "Anyone who thinks I love Trump, voted Brexit… is wrong… I woke up the day after Brexit shitting myself to what was voted for" [@thetimes] — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 26, 2026 Reform Remainiac As Skwawkbox reported for the Canary, Kenyon has links to known…

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