Turmoil & Denunciation: Israel’s Torrid Last Weeks…

It doesn’t rain but it pours says the old adage, and whilst Israel may have been under a storm cloud these past months, the past few weeks have seen the heavens open…

Peter Winn-Brown
11 min readJun 16, 2024
‘Death Road’ by Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, being shown for the first time at the Venice Biennale. This war ‘has drained all the colours from my world,’ she said. Image from Al Jazeera.

‘Israel has progressively turned Gaza into a highly controlled enclave. Since the 2005 evacuation of Israeli settlers (which Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly opposed), Israel’s settler movement and leaders have framed Gaza as a territory to be “re-colonized” and its population as invaders to be expelled. These unlawful claims are integral to the project of consolidating the “exclusive and unassailable right of the Jewish people” on the land of “Greater Israel”, as reaffirmed by Prime Minister Netanyahu in December 2022.’

Anatomy of a Genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (2024)(1).

Israel huffs & puffs, but the world no longer falls down…

Writing in the days after what may prove to be a momentous few weeks for Israel, the Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, applied for arrest warrants for the leaders of…

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Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.