Declassified UK

Posted: 21st May 2025

No closer to the truth about antisemitism

Rachel Shabi’s new book, Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism, erases efforts by Jewish leftists to tackle the problem.

Foreign Office helped notorious mercenary avoid court case

Government lawyers managed to stop a former SAS soldier linked to atrocities in Sri Lanka from being questioned in court.

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Fighter jet firms dined key witness in Israel arms export case

Air Vice-Marshal Keith Bethell accepted hospitality from companies who benefit from UK arms exports to Israel.

Labour froze some arms sales to Israel in September but still allows spare parts for its most advanced fighter jets to be exported via the US. So lawyers for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq are back in court this week to challenge Keir Starmer’s failure to ban all arms sales to Israel. Watch their press conference outside the High Court in London.

The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.

This week we launch DCUK Empire with a series of articles unpacking the imperial legacy of the British empire, read more now.

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