Society / What have the residents of Spalding got against the people of Gaza?

The media plays a vital role in desensitising British people to the sufferings of their fellow workers.

Civil liberties / Case dismissed after Palestine Action blockade of Instro Precision arms factory

Courts are once again balking at convicting those who act to disrupt the activities of the US/British/Israeli genocidal war machine.

Palestine / Gaza: the struggle continues

No cooperation with genocide. Defend our rights. Anti-zionism is not a crime!

Palestine / Gaza – the genocide continues

The resumption of all-out genocidal warfare against Palestinian civilians instead of securing is increasingly undermining the existence of the zionist colony.

Civil liberties / The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

British politics / Develop the anti-imperialist core of the Palestine solidarity movement

Growing anti-zionist sentiment must be developed into a consistent, scientific and class-conscious opposition to imperialism as a whole.

Poetry / Poem: Tyrant

A poetic response to the barbarity and criminality of Israel’s zionist-in-chief.

Yemen / Yemen is upholding the honour of the world’s people once again

As the Gaza ceasefire breaks down, the Ansarullah government has resumed its blockade of the Red Sea.

China / TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

What is it about this particular social media platform that has the imperialists so worked up?

Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

Civil liberties / David Miller detained by British counter-terrorism police at Heathrow

The British state, egged on by its rabid zionist attack-dogs, continues to persecute any journalist or activist who spreads awareness about its genocidal crimes.

Lebanon / Nasrallah’s funeral: A million voices for resistance

A human flood transformed Beirut into the global capital of freedom, and sent a defiant message to the zionists and imperialists: the resistance is unbroken.

Palestine / Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resistance celebrates significant victory

While the war for liberation is far from over, the Israeli entity has been mortally wounded.

Europe / Western politicians’ crocodile tears for one genocide while conducting another

The hypocrisy and venality of western politicians knows no bounds, stops at no lie and baulks at no crime.

Venezuela / Caracas congress: Make 2025 a milestone in the fight against fascism

Delegates also express firm support for Venezuela’s constitutionally elected popular president, Nicolás Maduro Moros.

Civil liberties / All eyes on the ‘enemy within’ – Prevent scheme targets dissenting children

British teachers are being tasked with the surveillance and intimidation of Palestine-supporting young people in schools and colleges.

North Africa and Middle East / In Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen, resistance stands firm

Every attempt by the zionists to decapitate and demoralise the forces of liberation has backfired.

Africa / Dakar declaration: Strengthen the anti-imperialist struggle

Under the banners of peace, antifascism, liberation and reunification, anti-imperialist forces are dealing heavy blows to the imperialists’ offensives.

Lebanon / Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s legendary leader

Hezbollah’s long-time general secretary was a true anti-imperialist, understanding that only unity would liberate Palestine and the wider middle east.

Palestine / Expanded zionist aggression and the response of the resistance

Like all reactionary fools, the zionists and their imperialist masters believe that by murdering its top leaders they can put an end to the resistance.

Palestine / Yahya Sinwar, child of the camps

Yahya Sinwar has been immortalised as a martyr in the righteous cause of liberating his people from a cruel and unjust occupation.

Palestine / Ismail Haniyeh, another resistance leader assassinated by Israel

‘We shall not give in, no matter the sacrifices.’ The indomitable spirit of intifada continues.

North Africa and Middle East / Lies, damned lies, and the British ‘Labour’ party’s imperial propaganda

Keir Starmer vows his government will continue to ‘stand with Israel’ as the zionists seek to expand their genocidal war across the region.

Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

So where are the trade unions?

Jordan / Jordan boiling over as the Hashemite rulers continue to facilitate genocide

The killing of three Israeli border guards by a Jordanian truck driver has highlighted popular anger against the regime’s continued complicity.

Palestine / Resistance stands firm in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen

As the Al-Aqsa Flood anniversary approaches, all the signs are that the zionist lunatics would rather drown the world in blood than admit defeat.

Lebanon / Lebanese communists stand firm in the face of zionist terrorism

‘These terrorist attacks aim to intimidate the Lebanese people and force them to submit to the conditions of the zionist enemy and its US backer.’

Society / Jury refuses to convict Palestine Action activists for arms factory damage

The state will continue to persecute Palestine solidarity activists through the legal system until such time as the organised working class forces it to stop.

Civil liberties / Craig Murray on Richard Medhurst and the right to armed resistance

It is becoming easier to list the truly dissident UK journalists who have not been arrested for terrorism than those who have.

Palestine / Zionists, beaten in Gaza, pursue a wider conflict

The Palestinian struggle is the spearhead of the Arab people’s democratic revolution. It will not be quashed by imperialism or its flunkeys

USA / Thousands shut down the Capitol to protest Israel’s war crimes

American jews join direct action sit-in demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza.

British politics / ‘Labour landslide’ election narrative hides deepening crisis of legitimacy

The ruling class pulled out all the stops to ensure a stable parliamentary majority for Labour, but it rests on very shaky ground.

Palestine / Lancet looks at Gaza genocide, finds official figures a massive underestimate

While western media report the official figures as if they are unreliably high, the truth is quite the reverse.

Palestine / ‘Hannibal directive’: western media covers up Israel’s mass murder of Israelis

Why is it now believed that more than half of those killed on 7 October were gunned down by their own side?

British politics / Professor David Miller on zionist control of the Labour party

When it comes to the Labour party the term ‘state capture’ is correct.

Palestine / Israel’s path to self-destruction

Blinded by the flawed logic of its supremacist ideology, the zionist state is hurtling towards its doom.

World / Washington declaration: Build the worldwide Axis of Resistance!

The Nato imperialist alliance can be defeated by the combined forces of anti-imperialism.

British politics / Election 2024: revisionists still propping up the Labour party

Even the CPB’s best theorists tie themselves in knots when trying to justify their party’s rotten position.

Palestine / All the weapons of the west

The imperialists are finding out to their cost that it is people, not weapons, that are ultimately decisive in war.

Iran / President Raisi has died, but the Axis of Resistance lives on!

The masses everywhere have lost a great friend, but the strategy he followed and the ties he forged continue to pay dividends.

British politics / No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers!

We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.

Palestine / Depleted Israeli military on brink of collapse

Eight months into the most recent flaring up of the decades long conflict and Israel's military cannot match the unwavering resistance of the Palestinian masses.

Palestine / Kangaroo ICC orders the arrest of Israeli leaders: so what?

What does it signify that a toothless puppet body of the west has felt the need to indict zionist officials?

Palestine / The USA bears joint responsibility for the zionists’ Rafah holocaust

Those who arm and support the zionazis are as culpable as the occupation goons themselves for the heinous crimes being committed in Gaza.

Iran / Israel v Iran: The missiles of April

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories in the country’s modern history.

Palestine / Zionist genocide continues in Gaza

Despite its barbaric and systematic slaughter of Palestinians, the zionist entity has never looked more fragile than it does today.

Education / Join the students: No cooperation with genocide in Gaza! Free Palestine!

Britain’s students are leading the way. The rest of the working class is duty bound to follow their lead.

USA / Gaza resistance sparks youth revolt in the belly of imperialism

Scenes reminiscent of the anti-Vietnam war movement are playing out as US students refuse to stay silent in the face of academia’s complicity.

USA / Naomi Klein: We need an exodus from zionism

This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

World / Nicaragua joins South Africa at the ICJ in support of Palestine

The way that different countries have responded to the ongoing genocide in Gaza says everything about which interests their governments really represent.

Media / John Pilger: the man they couldn’t silence

The most courageous, fearless and decent of journalists, who devoted his life to speaking the truth and uncovering imperialist lies.

Civil liberties / Rochdale 1 Sunak 0: decoding Rishi’s meltdown

Ruling class in a panic over Gaza and gearing up for political policing as Rishi Sunak lashes out against ‘extremism’ and ‘threats to democracy’.

Palestine / UN system in the dock: international law or rules-based order?

How much longer will the world’s people allow the zionists and their imperialist backers to carry out their horrific crimes with impunity?

Civil liberties / Women found guilty under terror laws for wearing a sticker at a demo

Another Orwellian attempt to use the courts to brand opponents of imperialist-backed terror as ‘supporters of terrorism’.

Civil liberties / Prof David Miller’s significant tribunal victory: anti-zionism is not racism!

A substantial fly in the ointment for those who are trying to criminalise all criticism of and opposition to zionist Israel and its blood-drenched British enablers.

Palestine / The Palestinian resistance is changing the world

The entire settler-colonial project is on the rocks, and with it the Anglo-American imperialist domination of the middle east.

British politics / Tick. Tock. What did you do to stop the genocide in Gaza, Daddy?

I waited as long as possible, and then helped to empty an already toothless resolution of all its meaning, my son.

Argentina / His name is Cristian Díaz and his crime is supporting Palestine

In Argentina, as in Britain and Germany, workers in support of Palestine are being identified by zionists and targeted by the state.

Civil liberties / Solidarity against police repression: Labour’s role in Gaza genocide

The Labour party’s control over movements of solidarity and ‘opposition’ in Britain is key to the present impotence of the working class.

Poetry / Poem for Gaza: They’re not like us though are they?!

Meanwhile, under the same sun, a team of exhausted men are pulling broken-limbed children from rubble.

Palestine / Jewish people condemn Israeli aggression and US complicity

‘Inevitably, oppressed people everywhere will seek – and gain – their freedom. We all deserve liberation, safety and equality.’

Civil liberties / Iranian Marxists in solidarity with our arrested comrades

‘When the imperialist governments fail to impede solidarity with the oppressed, they resort to suppression.’

Civil liberties / Jury unanimously acquits Palestine Action’s Balfour 2 who defaced statue

Exposing the colonial legacy of Balfour, and Britain’s continued complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

Palestine / Ronnie Kasrils on South Africa parallels and the Palestinian liberation struggle

‘I support right of all oppressed people to resist, and to resist armed oppression with armed resistance,’ says former minister.

Palestine / Samidoun: The plight of our prisoners is at the heart of our struggle

The centrality of the liberation of the prisoners to the liberation of Palestine has perhaps never been more clear than at this moment.

Palestine / Israeli far right’s plans for expulsion and expansion

While Joe Biden issues empty slogans about a ‘path to a Palestinian state’, zionists are trying to fulfil their dreams of a Greater Israel.

Palestine / Zionist slaughter of Palestinians will only hasten the demise of Israel

With 22,000 murdered and 52,000 wounded so far, the mass murder of civilians in Gaza has achieved nothing except the further weakening of the genocidaires.

Palestine / Gaza speaks: the zionists are failing despite their horrendous crimes

Palestinian resistance calls on the world to join the fight to stop the fascistic genocide and to send food and medical relief to the starving and wounded of Gaza.

Greece / Solidarity with Greek comrades under attack for anti-imperialist activities!

Why did fascist thugs choose the eve of our Platform conference to issue threats to a member of the organising team?

USA / The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

Kissinger’s amoral, genocidal crimes showed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life.

British politics / The tasks of communists in the Palestine solidarity movement

We must awaken workers to the need to struggle not only against zionist Israel, but against the entire imperialist system.

Yemen / Heroic Yemenis capture Israeli ship, deal hefty economic blow to the zionist entity

Footage of the ship’s capture has gone viral and inspired resistance forces across the region.

Palestine / Scott Ritter on the Al-Aqsa Flood battle

The operation launched by Palestinian resistance forces on 7 October was the most successful military raid of this century.

Palestine / Two ‘British’ positions on Palestine

The latest wave of Israeli violence was unleashed in a frenzy of impotent but brutal rage after Palestinian resistance launched its historic Al-Aqsa Flood battle.

Palestine / Mutiny at the BBC: ‘gravest possible concerns’ over Palestine coverage

The BBC’s own reporters are beginning to speak out about the corporation’s complicity in Israeli war crimes.

Palestine / Palestine Solidarity Campaign punishes Manchester branch

The PSC wants to keep pro-Palestine activism within the bounds considered acceptable by the pro-zionist establishment.

Palestine / Victory to the Palestinian resistance; no cooperation with zionist war crimes!

These are the slogans that need to permeate the solidarity movement in Britain and dictate its actions.

Palestine / Students protest against Manchester university’s complicity in Gaza genocide

Graphene research helps Israel to develop the fighter jets, drones and other military systems now being put to such criminal use against the Palestinian people.

Palestine / The resistance fighters of Gaza have signalled the end of the zionist project

Cast about as it may, there is no way for Israel now to free itself from a hook that it baited itself.

Palestine / Authorities announce the collapse of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip

The true face of zionism revealed: a barbaric, fascistic, supremacist ideology that openly declares its aim of wiping out more than two million people in Gaza.

Palestine / Ilan Pappe to Israeli friends: This is why I support Palestinians

Our moral compass should point towards decolonisation and liberation, guiding us through the fog of poisonous propaganda, hypocrisy and inhumanity.

Palestine / PFLP: ‘Our people are in good shape; they will not raise the white flag’

Our resistance operation has destroyed the enemy’s security and defence strategies and dealt them a humiliating military and security defeat.

Palestine / Platform: ‘The fight of the Palestinians is integral to the fight of all humanity’

All anti-imperialists must stand firmly and unashamedly with the forces of resistance and national liberation.

Palestine / Defiant Gaza: the reasons for resistance are clear

One is reminded of the daring and contempt for death shown by the South African people, who also confronted the enemy with guns in hand.

Leaflets / Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!

The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.

Palestine / Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!

The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.

Palestine / Palestinians are prohibited from defending against violent aggression

Why aren’t Palestinians allowed to defend themselves?

Palestine / Zionists step up their efforts to ethnically cleanse the West Bank of Palestinians

The extreme fascism of the Israeli state is now clearly revealed – and a sign that the whole colonial endeavour is careering headlong towards the abyss.

Palestine / The ‘incremental genocide’ of the Palestinians continues

Ilan Pappe: it is high time the seventy-year project of extermination of Palestinians should be internationally recognised as a genocide.

Palestine / Israeli persecution of Palestinians taken to a new level in January

The zionists have seemed to get away with their crimes untouched for 75 years, but every sign is that this experiment in fascistic colonialism is doomed.

Palestine / Israel elections – even more racism and even nastier fascists

The utter degeneracy of the zionist polity is just one of many signs that Israel’s days are numbered.

Iraq / ‘Normalising’ relationships with Israel now carries the death penalty in Iraq

A new law may force Iraqi politicians to put their money where their mouth is on the question of Palestine solidarity and anti-imperialism.

Palestine / Obituary for Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

A CNN investigation has endorsed the view that Shireen was deliberately assassinated. But the truth about Israeli crimes cannot be snuffed out so easily.

Palestine / Palestinian Nakba continues with the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

After 74 years of endless atrocities, the Israelis are further than ever from realising their fascistic goal of an ethnically ‘pure’ state.

Palestine / Amnesty International: Israel guilty of ‘apartheid against Palestinians’

Western NGO is forced to conclude that Israel has constructed ‘a cruel system of domination’ that is ‘a crime against humanity’.

UAE / Dubai’s freezing of F-35 order is a slap in the face for the USA

Another formerly loyal vassal is looking to keep its options open as imperial America’s star wanes.

Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

Education / Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses

The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.

British politics / Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

Palestine / Nasrallah: Gaza’s victory paves the way for the total liberation of Palestine

Lebanese resistance leader shows how the Palestinians won in Gaza and what that victory signifies for the middle east.

Palestine / Operation al-Quds Sword strikes terror into the heart of Israel

After bombarding Gaza for 11 days, Israel has achieved only the emboldening and greater unity of Palestinian resistance.

Palestine / ‘Resiste y avanza’: Venezuelans host global solidarity event for Palestine

Workers all over the world have been expressing their disgust at the latest zionist outrages.

Palestine / Latest Gaza assault: zionism signs its own death warrant

Palestinians have given up waiting for the ‘international community’ to act on toothless resolutions and are increasing the strength and unity of their own resistance.

Palestine / Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, steal land with impunity

The violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against civilians continues, propped up by Israel’s legal system and the world’s blind eyes.

Palestine / The ethnic cleansing of the West Bank

While western politicians and media pursue imaginary ‘antisemites’, they continue to ignore or excuse the murderous crimes of Israel.

Palestine / Israel weaponises Covid, witholding vaccine from Palestinians

While loudly claiming to be the ‘most vaccinated nation’ on earth, Israel continues to ignore the health needs of the occupied and blockaded Palestinians.

Palestine / Israel arrests Palestinian politicians ahead of PA elections

As Palestinian elections draw near, Israel has been rounding up politicians in an attempt to suppress any real exercise of political sovereignty or self-determination.

Palestine / Israel makes Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election

Eleven families left searching for shelter after Israeli forces destroyed their village in the Jordan Valley.

British politics / The Big Ride for Palestine and the Labour party

Tower Hamlets council’s decision to ban a fundfaising event for Palestine highlights the Labour party’s role as a tool of British imperial policy.

Iran / One year on from the imperialists’ murder of General Qasem Soleimani

All progressives must support the right of Iran to defend itself against relentless imperialist aggression.

Iran / In memoriam Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian scientist who served his people

Israel hopes by such cowardly assassinations both to decapitate Iran’s defence capabilities and to trigger a new regional war.

UAE / Gulf states’ pact with the devil over Palestine

What did the UAE hope to achieve by making public peace with the zionist state?

Palestine / Palestinian lives matter: the murder of Ahmed Eriqat

Ahmed Eriqat of Abu Dis was the latest victim of senseless murder by Israeli soldiers in occupied Palestine.

Palestine / Under cover of Covid-19: Israel tightens the screws on Palestine

Israel’s violent suppression and annexation of Palestine continues unabated, but with it so grows the just resistance of the Palestinian people.

British politics / Workers party sets a course despite lockdown

Weeks of lockdown have been used by the Workers party to speak to more than half a million people.

British politics / Supreme court ruling overturns Israel boycott ban – for now

What can workers do to stop this advance from being rolled back by Parliament?

Palestine / Deal of the century: US and Israel will reap a bitter harvest

One unintended consequence of the ‘deal’ is a new impetus toward a united front of Palestinian organisations.

Palestine / The oligarch behind the world holocaust forum attended by presidents and kings

As imperialists shed fake tears over the jewish holocaust, they continue to weaponise alleged ‘antisemitism’ to silence all criticism.

North Africa and Middle East / Cheap drones and the shifting strategic balance in west Asia

Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

Palestine / Airbrushing history: Israel buries evidence of its racist war crimes

Zionist secret services exposed attempting to ‘construct a more convenient version’ of history.

British politics / BBC’s anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow

If Corbyn’s allies can't fight back against the Israeli lobby within their own party, what chance will they have against the power of British imperialism?

Palestine / Netanyahu fails to form a government

None of the alternatives is willing to halt Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people.

Palestine / More land annexations by the Israeli scorpion

As the zionists become ever more rabid, they are in reality hastening the date of their own demise.

Palestine / Israeli election shock: zionism wins again

The true face of Israeli ‘democracy’ is revealed at the Gaza border fence.

British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

Syria / US imperialism finds defeat hard to swallow in Syria

The writing is on the wall: regime-change has failed and US imperialism is heading for the exit.

USA / Texas primary teacher loses her job for refusing to sign a pro-Israel oath

Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed advocates and defenders of bourgeois ‘free speech’ stand mutely by.

Syria / US imperialism losing the plot in Syria

The imperialists are raging as strong diplomacy combined with military advances edge the Syrian people ever closer to their final victory.

World / Imperialists getting desperate as the balance of forces in the world shifts

The US and EU imperialists continue to decline while China and Russia are steadily advancing.

Palestine / Zionism is a racist and antisemitic tool of imperialist policy in the middle east

It is not the anti-zionists who are guilty of antisemitism, but the zionists themselves. Accusations meant to silence opposition to Israel’s fascistic nature must be resisted.

British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

British politics / Why is Corbyn under attack?

It is not his alleged ‘antisemitism’ that offends the ruling class, but his refusal to give unconditional support to Israel.

British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

Palestine / US-zionist ‘deal of the century’ – a slap in the face for the Palestinians

Trump's much touted 'new deal' for Palestine is no deal at all, and only brings closer the day when Israeli zionism will collapse completely.

British politics / Is Corbyn racist?

What is behind the relentless campaign against Corbyn’s ‘antisemitism’ and ‘terrorist wreath-laying’ in our national media?

Palestine / Israel officially declares itself to be a racist state

But still thinks people will believe it to be a democracy!

British politics / The myth of Labour party antisemitism

On the zionist-backed campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

Palestine / The Great March of Return and the zionist murder machine

Israel will act with impunity until decisive collective action is taken against it.

Palestine / The defiance that launched Gaza’s flaming kites cannot be extinguished

Israel's fleet of F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.

Palestine / Seventy years since the Palestinian Nakba

After seven decades of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, the zionist forces are as far as ever from achieving their impossible dream.

Iran / Trump rips up the nuclear deal

Will Europe follow suit?

Palestine / Zionist brutality on full display across Palestine

The Palestinians continue to use every means available to them to resist the brutal occupation of their homeland. British workers must play their part.

British politics / The infamous ‘antisemitic’ mural

Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for failing to notice an East End mural’s antisemitism and now supports its removal. Is he right?

Palestine / Trump’s proposed embassy move and savage repression of Palestinians

Nothing will stifle the justice of the Palestinian cause.

Syria / Syria moves forward

The imperialists are staring a humiliating defeat in the face, and now the demoralised losers are falling out among themselves.

Palestine / One hundred years since the Balfour declaration

A sordid document in the shameful history of British imperialism.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

Palestine / Hedy Epstein, rights activist and holocaust survivor, remembered

Hedy Epstein, known and loved by the Palestinian people and their friends and supporters for her courageous work for solidarity and justice, has died aged 91.

Iran / Iran stands tall

Broad-based international support is strengthening Iran’s hand against the warmongers.

Palestine / Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV

Drama breaks new ground on mainstream TV by portraying some of the brutality that characterises the state of Israel and shattering its claims to be a democracy.