The New York Occasions started an electronic mail I acquired in a single day by saying:

Immediately, I am speaking to my colleague Damien Cave, who wrote an amazing piece in regards to the world crackdown on free speech that now consists of america. (Spoiler alert: Jimmy Kimmel is again. However free speech shouldn’t be.)

The acknowledgement is suitable. Trump has moved the US into the class of these states the place fascism calls for that free speech be curtailed in order that the cult of the chief may be maintained. The First Modification would possibly nonetheless exist on paper, however the mainstream media channels can be self-censoring any more: the tip of free speech is nigh, and the New York Occasions is aware of and acknowledges it.

The identical is occurring right here. Yesterday, the Labour Social gathering members in convention voted to acknowledge that Israel is endeavor a genocide in Gaza. Luke Akehurst MP, probably the most vile individuals (for my part) to be elected to that workplace in a very long time, roundly criticised it for doing so, rolling out the now ridicuous argument of it not recognising that the October 7 2023 assault had happoened, when that would by no means, no matter occurred then, ever justify the actions of Israel which have adopted since then.

Then Ed Miliband (who now appears skeletal) advised Channel 4 Information that he couldn’t touch upon this as he didn’t have the related authorized expertise to take action, mendacity plainly and straightforwardly when doing so, as a result of this isn’t a authorized concern: all that’s required is to witness what’s going on in plain sight.

And later within the night, Keir Starmer introduced that he was backing the Trump / Netanyahu peace plan for Gaza, about which Palestinians haven’t been consulted, and about which the one choice introduced to them is to agree, or Israel can be permitted to complete the job in Gaza.

By doing so, Starmer rewarded Israel for its genocide.

Doing so, he additionally ignored the rights of Palestinians and refused to acknowledge their proper to statehood, which he claimed to have recognised solely final week.

As a substitute, he supported its occupation and redevelopment by what is going to, in impact, be a Trump-directed property organisation, working with Israel to make a brand new resort vacation spot the place Palestinians now reside, all for the good thing about the Israeli tourism business.

As The Spectator notes in a mail this morning:

Beneath the plan, a world supervisory physique – provisionally entitled the Board of Peace – would oversee an apolitical committee of Palestinians operating Gaza day-to-day. The board could be chaired by President Trump and would come with different worldwide figures, most prominently one Sir Tony Blair. It will additionally name for a right away ceasefire, the discharge of all remaining hostages in change for two,000 Palestinian detainees, the withdrawal of the Israel Defence Forces from Gaza, and full disarmament of Hamas. The President can’t be faulted for his ambition.

I can guarantee you, he may be. As can Trump and Starmer. Each are lining as much as help Zionist oppression.

And the place is free speech in all this?

It was definitely not on the Labour Social gathering convention, which, as common, Starmer is ignoring.

And nor was it on the Trump / Netanyahu press convention, the place the pair – each of whom ought to be heading for the Hague for what they’re doing – refused to take questions. A lot for press freedom.

Stand again from all of this, and you can’t assist however assume three issues.

First, there’s a globally backed fascist coup happening, with Netanyahu at its epicentre, Trump gleefully supporting it, and with Starmer cheering from the sidelines, all of them willingly supporting genocide (UK arms gross sales to Israel had been at a report excessive in June this yr, we additionally discovered final evening)

Second, there’s nothing Jewish about this coup. I’m sure of this, and feedback from inside Israel itself show that. Simply learn what Hareetz has to say. It might be Zionist, and it might be fascist, however it has nothing to do with Jewishness. As a substitute, it’s all about seizing the facility to regulate. Recognising which means criticising what’s going on has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, which is, nevertheless, being cynically exploited by some to supply cowl for what is occurring.

Third, the coup is much from over. Simply have a look at the now widespread perception that the Brit Card is more likely to be offered by some type of three way partnership between the far-right Tech Bro, Peter Thiel and Tony Blair’s son Euan – which rumours might not be true after all, however that are broadly circulating, noneetheless – and the sensation that some type of conspiracy is going down is tough to withstand. It’s as if we’re being occupied, taken over, manipulated and managed with out our consent and with the energetic connivance of our personal authorities, which might look like being run for the good thing about completely anybody however us, and that there’s nothing we will do about what is occurring as all our freedoms start to fade earlier than our eyes.

I’ve alway rejected conspiracy theories. They not often serve a goal. Besides, this doesn’t really feel like a conspiracy anymore. It looks like actuality. And it looks like it’s taking place, and taking place now.

My query is, have we – just like the States – already been occupied by a far-right authorities that reached workplace through the debased type of electoral system that too could on this nation nonetheless name democratic, which authorities is now being run for the good thing about a only a few far-right large companies and nobody else? The likelihood that this might have already occurred immediately feels frighteningly actual.

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