{"id":1599,"date":"2025-07-05T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/the-uks-gaza-double-standard\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:39:34","slug":"the-uks-gaza-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/the-uks-gaza-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s Gaza double standard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Listening Post<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n
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At Glastonbury, Britain\u2019s biggest music festival, two artists called out Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza and accused the British government of complicity. On-stage remarks by one of them \u2013 Bob Vylan \u2013 plunged the country\u2019s public broadcaster, the BBC, which livestreamed the performance, into yet another Gaza-shaped row.<\/p>\n

Contributors:<\/strong>
Des Freedman \u2013 Author, The Media Manifesto
Peter Oborne \u2013 Journalist and broadcaster
Karishma Patel \u2013 Former newsreader, BBC
Justin Schlosberg \u2013 Professor of Media and Communications, University Of Westminster<\/p>\n

On our radar:<\/h2>\n

In the United States, Zohran Mamdani has secured the Democratic nomination for New York mayor, despite relentless media attacks that focus less on his policies and more on his outspoken stance against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

Tariq Nafi reports.<\/p>\n

Palestinians are seen as some sort of existential threat, just for being there<\/h2>\n

While debates rage in international media over phrases like \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d and \u201cdeath to the IDF,\u201d far less scrutiny falls on the anti-Palestinian abuse that has become normal inside Israel \u2013 from pop songs to viral chants.<\/p>\n

Palestinian analyst Abdaljawad Omar joins us from Ramallah to unpack this everyday Israeli racism.<\/p>\n

Featuring:
<\/strong>Abdaljawad Omar \u2013 Lecturer, Birzeit University<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Listening Post At Glastonbury, Britain\u2019s biggest music festival, two artists called out Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza and accused the British government of complicity. On-stage remarks by one of them \u2013 Bob Vylan \u2013 plunged the country\u2019s public broadcaster, the BBC, which livestreamed the performance, into yet another Gaza-shaped row. Contributors: Des Freedman \u2013 Author, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}