Opps, Britain Did It Again

Jonathan Woodrow describes Britain’s disturbing reality.

For 107 years and 10 months Britain, and its imperial mindset, has been consistently and directly throwing Palestinians under the murder-bus. This new stage is the worst we have seen, even worse than the Nakba.

Our involvement in this current stage of the genocide is so all encompassing that the media dare not report it, as to expose their own involvement in obscuring, mis-directing and openly lying about what is being done to the Palestinian people and why.

D-notices are issued by the government to prevent the reporting of SAS Special Forces involvement on the ground alongside the occupying state. No large and mainstream media organisations in the UK are reporting on any of our genocidal activities, apart from a couple of courageous online outlets and individuals, who themselves are now being targeted by security services.

Alongside the British military boots on the ground;

We continue to sell arms and other crucial supplies to keep the genocidal state from collapsing under the weight of the consequences of their own ghastly actions

We continue to use our imperial base in Cyprus to fly hundreds of spy missions over Gaza and share the data with the perpetrators of genocide

We allow the US to use RAF bases in the UK and on Cyprus to deliver huge amounts of the world’s most advanced weaponry to drop on defenceless people

We continue to bomb and murder Yemenis, who dare to try and intervene to stop the genocide

We continue to threaten other resistance movements and centres with mass destruction if they dare to intervene

The above is not even the full list of our direct involvement in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

It really is an appalling and shameful reality

The complete disconnect between what is happening to the Palestinian people, and many of the UK population’s understanding of it, is not surprising. People know it in their gut what is happening is very wrong, in general, but do not know or understand our part in it. Partly, as detailed above, because we are not informed, and partly because we do not want to know.

Pointing to the British Empire’s original role in this often proves pointless, as there is also no education or critical thinking over this, just glib references to it, and a lot of wistful longing for its return!

There are many grandfathers and great grandfathers who took part in the British occupation of Palestine from 1917-1948, and it is often difficult for their families to accept that they were and are a part of this British repression and violence visited upon the Palestinian people.

There is this very, VERY rose-tinted and melancholic view on British history and our role in shaping the modern world, which for many basically starts in 1939 and ends in 1945 and revolves entirely around the British (Not even the British Empire’s) resistance to the Nazis.

This empire has never really left Britain, or Palestine, it morphed in to something else, subservient to the new American empire, but still as cunning, conniving and violent as it has ever been. As a result and similar to the US, it does not matter who is in government in Britain, foreign policy remains the same, and this is to maintain Britain’s top economic, political and military place in the capitalist world and eliminate anyone who is perceived to threaten it.

Despite this repression of information, many hundreds of thousands of people in Britain have continued to show their steadfast support for the Palestinian people, and are not being fooled by this Labour government, who on Palestine, are as dangerous and violent as the last government.This will be a continual year’s long struggle for peace, justice and full Palestinian liberation, and we cannot take a step-back on Palestinian demands, no matter what.

Jonathan Woodrow Martin is a graduate of HCRI institute at The University of Manchester and can be reached at jwoodrowm@gmail.com