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GLAN and the Hind Rajab Foundation applied for an arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, in the hopes of arresting him for war crimes while he was in Britain last Tuesday for a secret meeting with David Lammy.
Sa’ar was about to quickly leave the UK when he heard this news, but David Lammy assured him the British government would block the arrest warrant, which they did. So the man who publicly called for the starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, stayed for the meeting with Lammy and went back to Israel a free man.
This is a huge story. But only three publications in the UK covered it. First the
Middle East Eye broke the story - simply by following the news in Israel. You see in Israel, this was NOT a secret meeting between Sa’ar and Lammy. It was covered in all their news media so anyone who follows Israeli news (like countless British journalists do!) was aware of it. Then
the National in Scotland wrote a piece on Sa’ar coming for the secret meeting. Then - after Sa’ar left the UK on Wednesday -
The Guardian did a past tense story lightly covering the blocking of the arrest warrant.
The
BBC have not only not covered the story, but wrote a piece stating that a member of the British Board of Deputies met with Sa’ar IN ISRAEL, when that meeting actually took place in London when Sa’ar visited! So the BBC lied to the public, who fund it and whom it is supposed to serve!
Sky, ITV, Channel 4, the Telegraph, the Independent and the rest also did not cover the story.
Why are our news media protecting our government when they exist to hold power to account? This is another huge story to come out of this. The British media have gone out of its way to cover for Israeli crimes and the crimes of the British government who are enabling them. How can the British public make informed decisions in elections when our media is effectively acting as the Public Relations wing of the government?! How can democracy function without an effective news media? And importantly- WHAT ELSE AREN’T THEY TELLING US?
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