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Get you up to speed: Jeremy Corbyn: Israel can’t stop me fighting for a Free Palestine
The Israeli government has banned Jeremy Corbyn and 11 other British MPs from entering the country. This decision is confirmed to be a response to the UK government’s recent sanctions on Israeli settlement goods.
The Israeli government banned 12 British MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, from entering the country, a move interpreted as a response to the UK government’s sanctions on Israeli settlement goods imposed recently. Investigations into claims of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continue, with the International Court of Justice’s ruling in July 2024 stressing the UK’s legal obligations regarding these matters.
In response to Israel banning him and other British MPs from entry, Jeremy Corbyn condemned the action as indicative of authoritarian practices and reiterated his call for the UK government to impose broader sanctions against Israel. He emphasised the need for accountability regarding Israel’s actions in Palestine and stated that his campaign for justice and peace for the Palestinian people would continue unabated.
What remains unclear — It is not specified how the UK government plans to implement its sanctions on Israeli settlement goods.
Jeremy Corbyn asserts commitment to fighting for a free Palestine despite travel ban by Israel
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I object to Israel’s attempt to shield itself from accountability for the crime of apartheid, occupation and genocide (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Yesterday, the Israeli government’s decided to ban me – and 11 other British MPs – from entering their country. This offers a tiny glimpse into the kind of authoritarianism that Palestinians are subject to every single day.
Over my lifetime, it’s been my privilege to visit Palestine on several different occasions. On these trips, I’ve witnessed what Palestinians endure – endless checkpoints, manned watchtowers, arbitrary arrests, expulsion from, and destruction of, their homes.
The Israeli occupation dictates who can and cannot move freely, and denies any vestige of autonomy to the Palestinians.
In Gaza, the Israeli occupation controls most of what goes in and out, most recently in illegal blocking of aid which has resulted in the mass starvation and displacement of Palestinians.
As more and more people have woken up to what an independent UN commission recognises is a genocide in Gaza, Israel has also denied entry to UN investigators and international journalists – a transparent attempt to stop the world from finding out the full extent of the war crimes it has committed.
On top of that, there are thousands of Palestinian refugees who are still denied the right to return.
I do not lose sleep over the Israeli government’s disapproval of me.
I have lost count of the number of demonstrations I have been on in solidarity with Palestine (Picture: Mark Kerrison/Getty Images)
However I do object, in the strongest possible terms, to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, UN investigators and journalists. I object to Israel’s routine degradation of Palestinians who are denied their freedom of movement.
And I object to Israel’s attempt to shield itself from accountability for the crime of apartheid, occupation and genocide.
That is the real scandal.
Israel’s decision to ban us, it seems, was made in response to the UK government’s welcome decision to impose sanctions on their illegal settlement goods.
This decision is long overdue – and hysteria from those who oppose it proves just how much impunity Israel has enjoyed so far. International law is clear: Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territories is unlawful, as ruled by the ICJ in July 2024, which imposed obligations on the UK not to aid or assist the illegal obligation.
I also re-iterate my demand for this government to recognise genocide in Gaza (Picture:y Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Ultimately, this decision is a first step toward the government finally fulfilling its legal obligations. These obligations, however, should not be limited to a sanction on goods.
Any meaningful package of sanctions would recognise how ‘settlement goods’ are subsumed into Israel’s wider economy. That means ending all trade, all military co-operation, and all forms of support that sustain Israel’s unlawful presence as a whole.
I also re-iterate my demand for this government to recognise genocide in Gaza, end all arms sales – including F-35 components – to Israel, and heed my repeated calls for a public inquiry into British complicity.
What this ban is really about is preventing British MPs from visiting the occupied West Bank or Gaza, and witnessing the site of increasingly horrifying state-backed settler violence, which has grown since October 2023.
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I also re-iterate my demand for this government to recognise genocide in Gaza (Picture: Zeynep Demir/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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The Israeli government’s decision tells us all we need to know.
Israel does not want the world to know what is going on. It tells us that they are willing to use increasingly absurd and desperate measures to keep critics away, as it loses support across the globe.
Above all, it tells us that we should not give up in our pursuit of truth, accountability and justice.
I have lost count of the number of demonstrations I have been on in solidarity with Palestine. Each time, I go with the memories of the people I have met at the forefront of my mind and I endeavour to quote at least one Palestinian in any speech I give.
In my mind, it’s important to amplify the lived experiences of those enduring occupation, apartheid and genocide. It is their freedom which is egregiously curtailed – and it is their freedoms that we must defend.
Israel does not want the world to know what is going on (Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Israeli government can ban me, but they can’t ban me from stating that they are committing genocide – and I will never stop campaigning until there is real justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people.
In our discussions of Palestine, we always emphasise the horror stories – but in my visits, I have experienced the humanity, the music, the art, the poetry, the joy, and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
I have no interest in being given a tour of apartheid by the Israeli government.
I do, however, have an unending determination to campaign for the only path to peace: the end of the occupation.
It has been many years since I have visited Palestine.
No matter what Israel does to intimidate us into silence and despair, I have not given up hope that one day, I may return to visit the children I once met – in a free and independent Palestine.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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