British Imperialism

ISIS and Moazzam Begg: Was There a Connection?

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Mr. Moazzam Begg, the cause celebre of the so-called ‘British Muslim’ community because of his cruel and inhumane detention at the hands of the United States government in Guantanamo Bay is also one of the founders and directors Cage International, a human rights advocacy organisation. In an interview with Dilly Hussain, an editor of the British Muslim website, 5 Pillars on its official podcast “Blood Brothers”, Begg shared his thoughts about the regime change war on Syria in the 2010s and in doing so, he opined on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) regime change war in Libya in 2011. Begg himself establishes there is a link between the western backed Libyan and Syrian regime change wars. As he says:

“Interestingly many of the people who had started the revolution in Libya and taken part in it militarily had some experience actually went on to set up and support some of the first resistance movements in Syria. So these very Libyans had gone from Libya and joined and fought…with this Free Syrian Army.”

Anyone paying attention to the 2010s regime change wars should immediately note there is nothing interesting or remarkable about this. To express it bluntly, it was simply a case of NATO moving its unofficial foot soldiers or Muslim mercenaries from one arena of conflict to another to implement pro-western regime change. Continue reading →

Netanyahu in Congress: Was he Right to Invoke Winston Churchill?

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Almost ten months into the world’s first ever livestreamed genocide in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of the United States’s Congress. In a speech predictably fawned over by the elected representatives of the United States, the Zionist leader aptly invoked the British Empire’s war time leader, Winston Churchill. Towards the end of his warmongering diatribe, Netanyahu appealed to the United States to continue showering the British-conceived, Zionist colonial-settler regime with more weapons to slaughter Palestinians.

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On Genocide ‘Israel’, Minister Louis Farrakhan was ahead of his time

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During the current genocide in the Gaza Strip of Palestine, Zionists are employing the same card and the same canard to deflect attention away from their war crimes. Specifically any criticism of their Zionist colonial-settler project and its attendant genocide is motivated by, in the words of President Joe Biden, an “ancient hatred”, that is anti-semitism – an irrational contempt of the Jewish people and their faith. The accusation has plagued most people who have made the mildest criticisms of the British initiated, Zionist colonial-project in Palestine known as “Israel” since the colonial entity was founded. 

Many decades ago, specifically in the 1980s, the African-American leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam (NOI) was continuously harangued as an “anti-semite” by American Zionists when he referred to the actions of the Israeli government against the indigenous population of Palestine as a “gutter religion”.

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Jeremy Corbyn Needs to Call for the Dismantling of Zionism in Palestine

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As the Zionist colonial entity’s genocide in Gaza shows no sign of relenting, British parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn’s inconsistencies and evasions too show no sign of diminishing. As Labour Party leader between 2015-2020, Corbyn rarely mentioned the Palestinian cause against Zionist occupation and colonisation. On one of the rare occasions, he spoke about Palestine (in November 2017) to commemorate the centenary of the British Empire issuing the Balfour Declaration, which pledged “a Jewish national home” to the European Zionist colonial movement, he bemoaned that one side of the King George V’s Declaration remains unfulfilled! In other words he didn’t condemn the colonial declaration. Instead, he de facto endorsed it and proclaimed that its shortcoming was that the indigenous Palestinians, unlike the Zionist colonial-settlers, don’t have a country as of yet. In 1917, the Jewish population of Palestine was between 60-80 thousand, as opposed to at least 700,000 Palestinians. There and then, on the hundred year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the genteel Corbyn outrageously insulted the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle by virtue of endorsing the very imperialist death warrant which underpins the Palestinian tragedy.

During the recent commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the Nakba, Corbyn once again took the opportunity to showcase his inconsistency and evasion on the greatest issue of the day on three occasions. Firstly, on the 15th May he posted on the social media website, X that

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