Martin Shaw
@martinshawx
Historical sociologist @IBEI @SussexGlobal. Books: The New Age of Genocide (out Oct), What is Genocide?, history of CND, racism/Brexit. http://martinshaw.bsky.social.
'The only way we can understand what Israel is doing in an overall sense is not a series of war crimes. It is one big crime and that the name for that is genocide.' My question to Israeli historian Benny Morris - which he didn't answer - in @mehdirhasan's new @AJHeadtoHead.
Watch this genocide expert destroy Israel's lies in less than a minute
Significant sections of the media are starting to acknowledge Israel’s starvation policies - following shifts in public opinion. We need to convert this into effective pressure on governments to stop Israel.
A sudden dramatic shift in the BBC's coverage. Why? Because everybody knows that the utter calamity engulfing Gaza is going to be impossible to hide. For the Guilty Men of the media: you all had ample warning for 21 months! You did this! Everything that now happens is on you.
By coincidence, 69 was also the number of victims of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, which sealed the delegitimisation of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Israel does two Sharpevilles a day: the difference between apartheid and genocide.
To put this in context, the terrible 1929 Hebron Massacre, one of the worst tragedies suffered by the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine, resulted in 69 innocent deaths. It has been the subject of many books and studies, and is still constantly referenced. Now around double…
Update on Columbia University & Genocide Let history record that at the height of the genocide in Gaza, Columbia expelled students protesting the Gaza genocide while giving succor to those who supported it. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyr… @mehdirhasan @bartov_omer @martinshawx
It may often feel like we are back one century, BUT NO. We have a human rights system and often even constitutional rights. Let's use them. To hold accountable the perpetrators and their accomplices, from gvt officials to businesses and the media industry. This is already…
Remarkable that one of the strongest voices against the UK’s complicity is a Conservative. And he has the politics right: only the Labour back benches can change UK policy. We need a campaign to target *every* Labour MP to get a change, and soon.
A Turkish parliamentarian to Erdogan’s MPs: The pilots bombing Gaza and Palestine trained in Konya. Israeli jet fuel is sent from Iskenderun. Israeli soldiers’ food is sent from Alanya. And their water comes from Manavgat. You send drones to Ukraine and Azerbaijan but settle for…
Wasn’t this while Lammy was speaking?
A British spy plane set off for Gaza 45 minutes ago It will spend 5 hours over the besieged and starving Palestinian territory The intelligence collected will be provided to Israel But UK government refuses to say what parts of the Netanyahu regime it is handing the intel to
The New Statesman - which published rabid Israeli propaganda after Oct 2023 - has recently (under new editor @TomMcTague) led on a strong piece arguing that Israel has committed extensive war crimes and probably genocide. Does the left hand know what the right is doing?
Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor of the New Statesman, agrees with Tory MP Jack Rankin that the UK govt recognising the state of Palestine rewards terrorism. The New Statesman calls itself the leading progressive political magazine in the UK.
Today David Lammy denied that RAF surveillance flights share information to Israel. Meanwhile, just over two months ago at the British Museum's Israeli embassy party, Maria Eagle boasted that the "UK stood with Israel with the RAF conducting surveillance flights" over Gaza.
📢 MARIA EAGLE, UK Minister for Defence Procurement and Industry, gave a keynote speech celebrating the RAF's surveillance flights over Gaza which has provided key intelligence to Israel to enact their genocide in Gaza.
This began in collaboration with Israel in Oct 2023 - there is really viable explanation for RAF surveillance flights over Gaza than feeding info to Israel. As Starmer said at RAF Akrotori, its Cyprus base (Dec 24), ‘some of what goes on here can’t necessarily be talked about’.
Military source told The Times last year the UK spy plane Labour is sending over Gaza daily is “able to look at streets and blocks and houses and zoom in on specific movements…they have really good sensors” Intel gathered is given to Israel ICC needs to arrest Starmer + Lammy
‘Britain is now AGAIN a US nuclear base’ - it was used as one from 1950 onwards until cruise missiles were removed after 1990. I tell the story in my history of @CNDuk.
BREAKING: US nuclear weapons have reportedly arrived on British soil for the first time in almost two decades. Reports indicate that several B61-12 thermonuclear gravity bombs were received at RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk. Britain is now a US nuclear base.
‘Israel must deliver on its pledges’ - no, the EU must break with Israel
Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.…
.@labourlewis is one of the 9 principled Labour MPs (out of 400+) who voted against banning Palestine Action. He should put all his energy now into forcing the UK government to ditch their support for Israel.
Clive Lewis listening to David Lammy in the commons yesterday.
‘We’ve *asked* the Israeli government to think again’ - a masterclass in evasion from Lammy.
Spoke to the Foreign Secretary this morning about the situation in Gaza - here's a brief clip...
Genocidal fantasies - but will they be realised?
A new plan to settle Gaza with Israelis was presented in the Knesset today. It includes the following elements: * 1.2 million Jews will relocate to Gaza. * All Palestinians will be expelled. * 300,000 housing units will be built * High-tech, agriculture, and education…
‘The weaponisation of starvation against an entire population’. Sanctions on all Israeli institutions, break all relations now! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In Egypt, displaced Palestinians have been forgotten: ‘The right of return is not extinguished by displacement. It is made more urgent.’ app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/70597/co…
Contradictions: Lammy says RAF flights over Gaza are ‘not sharing info with Israel’ - but previously they were, ‘only’ to help locate hostages. If UK not assisting, why have IAF planes landed in England? Why was IAF chief Bar welcomed at UK air tattoo? theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
“We’re in the death phase,” one UNRWA worker said. “Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.” news.un.org/en/story/2025/… @mehdirhasan @MacaesBruno
The outrageous treatment of United Nations staff by Israel
.@WHO’s staff residence in Deir al Balah, #Gaza, was attacked three times today as well as its main warehouse. Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward Al-Mawasi amid active conflict. Male staff and family members were…
Malthouse *was* right to personalise it. Lammy has been the chief spokesman for British complicity. We need to personalise it with *every* MP who is not up in arms about Gaza, especially those who voted to criminalise direct action protests: the starving are their responsibility
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague