Declassified UK

Posted: 27th November 2023

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Giant UK corporations that are backed by the government – BP and BAE Systems – are capitalising on lucrative contracts with Israel while it kills thousands of Palestinians.

Exclusive: Ministry of Defence takes extraordinary step of censoring all requests for information by MPs about RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus, which Declassified has reported is facilitating arms supplies to Israel’s war on Gaza.

Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza, driving Palestinians outside their homeland as happened in 1948. And yet, just as during the first “Nakba”, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative.

The two key reasons are the need for Whitehall to demonstrate British subservience and usefulness to the US, and the power of the Israel lobby, argues Declassified’s editor.

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Authors examine headlines and front pages from five major news media – Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian, Times, and BBC – showing how they reduce Palestinians to numbers and cover Israel in ways reflecting their governments’ priorities.

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Leaked cable raises the possibility the US is flying surveillance missions over Gaza from RAF Akrotiri and sharing the intelligence with Israel, which would further implicate Britain in war crimes in Gaza.

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BBC’s coverage of Palestine is regularly marked by an absence of history and context and a tendency to reproduce official Israeli government and military sources.