Tag: Hamas

Douglas Murray's critics are wrong, says Robert Kogon: it's not a "trivialisation of the Holocaust" to suggest that gleefully burning Jews alive or beheading them is an atrocity of a similar kind.

Hamas likes nothing better than an Israeli strike that kills civilians, says Jake Wallis Simons, which is why its tunnels wind under civilian towns and villages, with operation rooms under hospitals.

There has never been a class of people who are freer to express their opinions than Left-leaning academics in 2023. So why do they think the Government is trying to censor them, asks Dr David McGrogan.

Israel's Prime Minister has dismissed leaked proposals for expelling the Gaza Strip's entire population to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula as hypothetical.

Israel's robust response to the recent Hamas atrocity has produced cries of 'war crimes' and demands for immediate ceasefire. Law expert David McGrogan takes a look at how the response shapes up under international law.

China gets a lot wrong, but a few things right, says Dr Roger Watson, who finds the country moving ahead in some ways but still lamentable in others.

Sadiq Khan has "probably watched the large turnouts at last weekend's pro-Palestinian protests and decided he must be, if not on the right side of history, then at least on the right side of voters", writes Tom Harris.

Keir Starmer is today desperately trying to dampen the flames of a major Labour rebellion over his backing for Israel in the conflict in Gaza after he ducked out of mentioning the Middle East at PMQs this afternoon.

Navigating your way through the Israel-Palestine conflict is very, very hard, says Prof James Alexander. The important thing is to retain a sense of proportion.

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