UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese has once again urged UN member states to wake up to the reality on the ground in the Middle East. Ahead of her eighth report on Israel’s genocidal actions against Palestinians, she warns that Israel poses a serious threat to international peace and security.

In turn, Albanese highlighted the extensive evidence she has gathered in her urgent UN reports and reinforces her call to world leaders to uphold their humanitarian duty by intervening to stop the mass killing of innocent men, women, and children.

Finally, she stresses that only those in positions of power can hold Israel accountable under international law. In turn, this could work to prevent a dark, sinister future for the global population as a result of the new world order enforced by the US and Israel that ‘might is always right’.

A world order that will hurt any and all countries who have anything of value to imperial interests.

Dear UN Member States,

As I prepare to deliver my 8th report to the UN, I reiterate: Israel poses a threat to international peace and security.

I have documented its most egregious crimes. Now the obligation to act, and stop it, sparing innocent lives, rests with you. https://t.co/2tP4sK4nvl

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) March 22, 2026

Francesca Albanese tells UN member states to stop ignoring legal obligations

Albanese is continuing in her mission to press the UN into action, tirelessly reminding it of the vital purpose it was created to serve. The UN was formed after WWII in 1945 in order to promote cooperation amongst international leaders, enforcing a rules-based system which would foster and maintain peace and security.

If international law was applied without fear or favour, the world would see far less bloodshed and far less aggressive vitriol from hostile states. However, since its inception, the world’s most powerful states have used the international body as a way of beating down states they wish to exploit whilst shielding themselves from accountability for crimes committed by the West.

The US has consistently vetoed any effective resolutions put forward by the UN, often making its lackies toe the line and abstain from having a view. The US even saw fit to veto a UN resolution which would have allowed for unrestricted aid to enter Gaza, as we wrote back in September:

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has voted on a draft resolution put forward by its ten ‘non-permanent’ members demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the immediate release of all hostages and the immediate lifting of Israel’s blockade on food and medicines – and ordering on the occupying power to ensure safe and unhindered distribution to all in need.

Adding:

The US representative vetoed the UN resolution, condemning around 1.5 million surviving civilians in Gaza to starvation as they continue to be bombed and displaced by the coloniser.

Allowing these abuses only emboldens tyrannical leaders. After all, veto powers that block widely supported resolutions undermine the rules-based system and threaten international peace and security. This only reinforces Albanese’s assertion that Israel, and those who provide diplomatic cover, are the ultimate threat to the wellbeing of the global civilian population.

Many have long called for an end to this ability to stack the deck through the veto capability, urgently calling for reform in the Security Council:

Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli PM Netanyahu ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/MvnplAht8z

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 10, 2023

A world leader leading the way is Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez, who recently supported calls to end veto power in the UN:

Spanish PM Sánchez Calls to End UN Security Council Veto Power

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urges reform of the UN Security Council, arguing that the veto system undermines international decision-making and global cooperation. #WashingtonEye pic.twitter.com/3QYCkRRwBf

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— Washington Eye (@washington_EY) March 11, 2026

Investigative journalist Peter Cronau has further reinforced Albanese’s demand for the UN to act:

The United Nations has an OBLIGATION to take action against Israel for its repeated egregious breaches of humanitarian and international law. https://t.co/s9ocdUpZZ4 pic.twitter.com/fbkOVuRJ6g

— Peter Cronau (@PeterCronau) March 22, 2026

Where is the UN’s backbone now?

Legal scholar Nimer Sultany has compared prior decisions made by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to the lack of action taken today:

The UNGA should act.

In December 1982 (37/123), the UNGA declared “once more” that “Israel’s record and actions confirm that it is not a peace loving Member state” and called upon all states to suspend military, diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations with Israel. https://t.co/0thhg1WNHh pic.twitter.com/a7WY61uuvA

— Nimer Sultany (@NimerSultany) March 23, 2026

Going further, Sultany highlighted the silence from the UN Security Council (UNSC) regarding the illegal attacks on Iran:

In 1981 the UNSC “strongly condemned” Israel’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear research centre. And considered that Iraq is entitled to “appropriate redress”.

Now the UNSC is silent on Israel’s attack on Iran. pic.twitter.com/ktTx76J2Qj

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— Nimer Sultany (@NimerSultany) March 23, 2026

Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara underscored how Israel’s abuses seem to have no end in sight:

With no end in sight ..,, https://t.co/k5k1JYQl7H

— Marwan (@marwanbishara) March 23, 2026

Better late than never

Francesca Albanese’s plea to the UN and its member states comes at a dangerously bleak moment for modern civilisation. Israel and the US are being led by self-interested, reckless, and fanatical leaders who prioritise settler colonialism above all else.

When greed and cruelty run unchecked, staying silent about crimes abroad only legitimises these dangerous actions – and leaves all states vulnerable to those who seek to take from them next.

We hope the UN and Western leaders finally heed Albanese’s call – after all, it’s better to act late than never at all.

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Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, slammed Netanyahu’s blasphemous dismissal of Jesus as having “no advantage over [conqueror and mass murderer] Genghis Khan”.

Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, gave away his complete ignorance of actual Christianity. Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world; Khan, like Netanyahu, is all about stealing physical territory and wealth from the people in his way.

Iran’s Araghchi calls Netanyahu ‘wanted war criminal’

But Araghchi zeroed in on Netanyahu’s show of contempt for the deluded US ‘Christian’ nationalists whose support is vital to Netanyahu’s crimes and impunity:

For a man so reliant on goodwill of Christians in the United States, Netanyahu’s open disdain for Jesus Christ (PBUH) is remarkable.

His unbridled praise for Djingis Khan, the worst slaughterer our region has ever seen, also fits with his current status as a wanted war criminal. pic.twitter.com/xIoTiuO1vZ

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— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) March 20, 2026

The video also exposed, again, Netanyahu’s fascism and genocide. He uses ‘democracy’ as an excuse for brutality, claiming that violence — ‘strength’ — is essential to ‘defend’ it. He deliberately ignores that it is no ‘democracy’ that needs to be defended with war crimes and genocide.

The video has also been dismissed as AI. It certainly looks weird and off. Netanyahu has not been credibly seen in public for almost three weeks since Iran said it had struck his office. Likewise with his security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Israel and its lobby groups try to claim that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. In fact, about 90% of Zionists are ‘Christian’ — more precisely, racist US and other ‘Christian nationalists‘ whose beliefs have little to do with the teachings of Jesus.

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Israeli analyst Orit Perlov has called for the deliberate murder of the children of Israel’s opponents. Perlov, who works for the Israeli Institute of National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, posted the comment on her X feed on Sunday 22 March 2026. She has previously called ISIS-linked, Israeli-funded Palestinian terrorist Yasser Abu Shabab “the man of the hour”.

Translated, her post – apparently since deleted – demands a “cruel religious approach” of “eliminating” the children of Iranian leaders. And she appears to bemoan the fact that Israel didn’t do it immediately in Gaza or Lebanon:

Please replace the state approach with a cruel religious approach. Instead of a power plant strike, a plague of the firstborn – tomorrow evening, eliminate the children of Vahidi, Araghchi, and Ghalibaf.

If we can’t get to the parents, harm their children (it took us two years to do it in Gaza. We haven’t done it in Lebanon yet)… Instead of a “mad landlord” approach, we need a cruel landlord. Trump can’t promise hell – that’s exactly what they want.

Hitting power plants would be counterproductive If they drag us into a boxing match and ping-pong games – We lose.

On the same day, she also had the nerve to decry Iran’s threat to retaliate for US-Israeli attacks on its energy resources by striking Israeli power plants as a “war crime”, despite Israel’s repeated attacks on Iran’s.

The INSS plays a role in Israel’s attempts to fight ‘delegitimisation’ of its apartheid colony, for example by condemning left-wing allies of the Palestinian people who see the Palestinian struggle as an anti-colonial one (I know, right) and claiming it drives ‘antisemitism’.

Prior to joining the INSS, Orit Perlov worked for the Israeli government.

Imagine the mass political and media outcry if an Iranian government-linked think-tanker called for the targeting of the children of Israeli political figures, even though Israel routinely murders the families of Palestinian journalists and medical workers.

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The long-running spycops inquiry has revealed what one expert calls “the secret history of Britain“. Officially known as the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), the inquiry, led by Sir John Mitting, has been looking into misconduct by uncover officers who infiltrated leftwing movements, stole the identities of deceased children, and entered into undisclosed, unlawful romances.

Published exchanges show how absurdly incompetent some agents were, and confirm, yet again, the state’s commitment to sabotaging left-wing movements.

Undercover officers unjustifiably targeted hundreds of left-wing groups for decades. As expert Tom Fowler told the Canary previously, this campaign “fundamentally changed Britain.”

The recent focus on one incompetent officer in particular, exposes how this infiltration of progressive movements wasn’t always smooth sailing.

When a spycop messed up

The agent, who went by the false name of ‘Simon Wellings’, made a costly blunder. Wellings, as the Guardian reported:

jeopardised his own covert deployment by mistakenly recording himself discussing individual campaigners with other special branch officers.

In a ludicrous turn of events, Wellings was at a spycop meeting when he looked up an activist’s phone number and dialled it by accident. The call went to voicemail, which recorded his ongoing conversation with other officers. This silly mistake blew his cover.

Between 2001 and 2007, Wellings infiltrated numerous campaigns and sent thousands of surveillance reports back to his superiors.

These, as the Guardian found:

included details of campaigners’ bank accounts, housing, personal relationships and finances.

They also noted that:

Campaigners said Wellings routinely made up and over-inflated his surveillance reports about them, exaggerating, for example, the level of violence in protests.

Their reporting highlighted that:

Internal police documents show that, after he was exposed, the police considered whether to leave the anti-capitalist group he had infiltrated “intact” or whether to “mount a destructive operation”.

‘Destructive’ police operations against the left

Activist Chris Nineham, whom the state is still targeting today, was a member of the groups that Wellings targeted. And after Nineham’s appearance at the spycops inquiry, Fowler hailed him for hammering home that:

this was not just about spying. This was about disruption. This was about sabotage.

As Fowler insisted, the undercover cops and the network of repression around them were “doing so much to destroy movements.”

He added that the evidence shows:

the police did destroy – do destroy – movements, as we have long said. But more than that, they talk about doing it and they put it in their files.

Guy Taylor, who was in the same left-wing groups as Nineham, summarised that Wellings’s appearance at the inquiry proved the agent:

was a fantasist and a liar and inflated everything

And even though the proceedings didn’t use the court’s time in a very efficient way, Taylor stressed that between the witness testimonies and Wellings’s own words, the former agent had totally “crumbled and died” under scrutiny. Indeed, as Fowler asserted, the chair himself even asserted that:

he believed… the evidence from other people… and gave [Wellings] the opportunity to change his position

Fowler concluded:

that just doesn’t happen and I think that spoke volumes

The spycops inquiry itself may not bring about real justice or change. But every new revelation helps to piece together the British state’s historic repression of the left. The inquiry is an important step towards exposing and resisting state repression, and minimising the harms of future uncover missions targeting our communities.

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The sea remains blue(ish), the sky remains grey, and Palantir is embroiled in yet another nascent big-data privacy scandal. We’re beginning to wonder if the tech firm that chose to name itself after the dark wizard Saruman’s seeing-stone might not be entirely on the level, you know.

The Guardian have uncovered the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) plans to hand Palantir access to financial regulation figures. The US defense contractor recently won the FCA contract, beating one unnamed competitor and gaining still-greater access to highly sensitive UK data.

Palantir: serious security concerns

The FCA ostensibly regulates the UK’s financial services firms. However, it will now pay over £30,000 a week for Palantir to route through its data on UK firms. The Miami-based tech giant will be looking for evidence of irregularities like money laundering, insider trading, and fraud.

If the FCA is pleased with Palantir’s work, the company may be tasked with producing an AI system for the financial watchdog.

The Guardian explained that:

Palantir is expected to apply its AI system, known as Foundry, to huge quantities of information held by the watchdog, including case intelligence files marked highly sensitive; information on so-called problem firms; reports from lenders about proven and suspected frauds; and data about the public, including consumer complaints to the financial ombudsman.

The data includes recordings of phone calls, emails and trawls of social media posts, the Guardian understands. The FCA is one of several UK agencies which aim to stop financial crimes that underpin harms such as the drug trade and human trafficking.

The article also reported concerns from within the FCA itself. One anonymous staff member at the watchdog asked:

Once Palantir understands how we detect money-laundering threats, how do we know that they are ethically reliable enough not to go to share that information?

‘Vast quantities of data’

Likewise, financial-crime specialist Christopher Houssemayne du Boulay, a partner at Hickman & Rose law firm, also raised serious security worries. He explained that:

When the FCA carries out an enforcement investigation, it has powers to compel firms to hand over vast quantities of data. We could be talking about hundreds of whole email accounts and full financial records. Many innocent people will be caught up in that and the data may contain bank account details, email addresses, telephone numbers and other personal information.

If you ingest that data and use it to train an AI system, there are very significant privacy concerns. There should be serious confidentiality requirements regarding what Palantir does with the data.

However, the FCA have insisted that it hasn’t given Palantir permission to copy the data it examines. Which is all fine then, because surely the data company wouldn’t do anything it isn’t allowed to do. 

The watchdog insists that Palantir would be a “data processor” rather than a “data controller”. This means that the FCA would retain sole access to the encryption keys for sensitive files. Likewise, the data would only ever be stored in the UK.

However, the FCA reportedly stopped short of scrambling company and individual names, or using dummy data as a test. That’s in spite of the fact that it’s own guidance suggests using synthetic data in pilot runs.

Palantir: Somehow worse than it sounds

Palantir was co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, a major donor for Donald Trump and the 2022 Republican election campaign – to the tune of over $32m. Unsurprisingly, Thiel was also a friend of Jeffrey Epstein. The tech magnate once famously claimed that:

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Given his openly authoritarian views, it’s both utterly outrageous and depressingly predictable that the UK government simply won’t stop handing his company public deals. To date, Palantir has raked in over £670m of UK public funds. These include contracts with the military, police, and even the NHS. 

Amnesty International’s AI and human rights researcher Matt Mahmoudi said the firm:

has a track record of flagrantly disregarding international law and standards, both in violations of the human rights of migrants in the United States, which it risks contributing to, and its ongoing supply of artificial intelligence products and services to the Israeli military and intelligence services.

Anybody with an even-passing interest in data security, privacy and basic human freedoms might recognise that Palantir shouldn’t be allowed within 50 metres of a fucking Excel account, never mind the FCA’s database.

However, it’s glaringly clear that the heads of our public institutions no longer share these concerns.

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Football is more than just a game; it’s a universal language that unites people behind a single ball, but it’s also a mirror reflecting the values ​​and principles of societies.

In every match, the spectre of racism sometimes rears its head, reminding us that there’s a segment of the audience that hasn’t yet grasped that a player’s worth is measured by their effort and performance on the pitch, not by their skin color or origin.

With the rise in racist abuse in both European and Arab stadiums, it’s clear that the responsibility lies with everyone involved in the game: the fans are the ones who determine the nature of the event, whether for or against it.

Football has a herd mentality problem

Stands are more than just seats; they’re a breeding ground for what experts call “herd mentality.”

As a dynamic force, fans have the power to change the atmosphere of matches. When fans reject racist chants and silence them immediately, the racist becomes a social outcast before facing legal penalties, creating a sense of self-regulation within the stands.

Conversely, a player remains vulnerable to psychological attacks if there is no public awareness, which can leave lasting psychological scars on their career and life off the field.

The psychological effects extend beyond the individual, impacting the reputation of clubs and countries themselves. In the age of live broadcasts and social media, every racist chant, transmitted live to the world, becomes a stain on the club and the country, affecting sports investments and the image of the society in the eyes of the world.

Explosive impact

A clear example of this is what happened in several recent European matches, where racist chants became negative media content that swept across global networks, leaving a significant mark on the image of the team and the organizers.

The reality is that resorting to racism when losing or provoking the opponent is a sign of intellectual and sporting bankruptcy. A person who finds no other way to express their anger than by belittling others because of their skin color or background lacks even the most basic sporting awareness. Football is built on diversity. From Pelé to Zidane, from Messi to Ronaldo, they all represent different backgrounds and ethnicities, and without this diversity, the game would not have reached its current status. As Nelson Mandela said, “People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.”

Today’s sports arena is more than just a platform for cheering; it is a space for sporting and human values. It is the fans who decide whether these values ​​will remain present or be lost amidst the clamor of toxic chants, and it is they who can transform matches from mere sporting events into moral messages that reflect the true spirit of football.

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Since the formation of Your Party’s central executive committee, there has been growing frustration from members across the country.

Despite the desperate need for unity, solidarity and compassion in British society, the reported behaviour of the CEC has been to silence or intimidate socialist voices into compliance.

Members are feeling increasingly concerned that Your Party will not work to empower them or listen to their communities. Instead, branches are left ignored without access to resources or guidance which has seen local members abandon the party all together in disappointment.

Several groups have come together to pressure the executive committee to change course, organising to strengthen and assert the socialist voice within the fledgling party.

Your Party’s Muslim members speak out

One group to emerge is the Muslim Socialists of Your Party. They formed in response to growing concern that some were using social conservatism as a cover to sideline the trans community. The group has powerfully called out how some use the Muslim community as a shield to justify holding back progressive LGBTQIA+ policies.

This dynamic has cast a particularly ugly shadow over the run-up to Your Party’s conference, with figures aligned with Corbyn and the many making apparent transphobic remarks. A party built on community and solidarity must stand firmly against the oppression of every group, including our trans brothers and sisters. We cannot leave anyone out in the cold.

The Green Party’s recent success reinforces this point, showing that pro-trans policies resonate with Muslim voters and don’t pose the barrier some claim.

When campaigns focus on people’s real concerns and lead with fairness and solidarity, communities respond. It’s a reminder that inclusive, hopeful organising can build trust and support without division.@jeremycorbyn @zarahsultana @ZackPolanski pic.twitter.com/DJGMj999jd

— Muslim Socialists of Your Party (@MusSocialistsYP) February 27, 2026

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Intersectional Feminists for Your Party

The Intersectional Feminists (IFEM) of Your Party has also contacted the CEC to request an explanation for its choice to remove the following from its membership officer role description:

diverse communities, including BAME groups and underrepresented members, to ensure inclusive participation activities.

The group sent an email on 18 March, the evening before a scheduled CEC meeting, expressing its concerns. However, the CEC hasn’t yet responded.

In a later post on X, IFEM asked for Your Party members’ support in ensuring it’s an inclusive party, truly built in the spirit of inclusion and solidarity.

We believe that intersectionality includes working on including underrepresented communities including global majority – not ‘BAME’.

Agree with us? Email the letter below to [email protected] & [email protected]https://t.co/8fTQiJWaha pic.twitter.com/UgtH8Du2A4

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— I.FEM.YOUR.PARTY (@I_FEM_YP) March 19, 2026

Young people are disappointed and ashamed

Younger members have also come together in Cambridge, forming an alliance to ensure young people are represented in Your Party. In an open letter, Your Party Youth Cambridge (YPYC) said the committee’s response “will determine whether we remain committed to Your Party”.

As experienced organisers, we will continue the struggle regardless, the only question is whether it’s under this Party’s banner or that of the Greens.

Speaking of their own graft at grassroots level to lay the groundwork for a new Socialist party of the people, the statement explained how YPYC began organising in November 2025. Its goal was to “support their local communities and combat the rise of the far-right”.

Since then, we’ve run a weekly food drive, now in its 16th iteration, ran an independent candidate for the CEC, supported strike action, and hosted numerous vibrant politicised cultural and educational events.

Over these past five months, our membership and impact in our community has greatly enriched our lives; we’ve become a steadfast and regular presence in our local streets. We were eagerly anticipating the formation of the CEC as a chance to concretise the promise of the Party and formally establish the structures we’d built.

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However, the group claimed it’s “running out of steam” as it described the deep disappointment felt within communities who had jumped into action at the announcement of a new socialist party. The statement called out a “lack of progress towards branch formation” and how the group feels “increasingly ashamed to bear the Party’s name”.

We’ve felt incredibly disappointed with the lack of action, communication, and comradeship from the CEC. When we read out the CEC reports in our weekly meetings, we find them increasingly uninspiring, a dead weight hanging in the air.

The pre-conference divisiveness has only worsened with the elections; we’ve seen no attempts to resolve this and move forward productively…

We tell our peers that things will get better but, as each month passes, feel increasingly ashamed to bear the Party’s name.

The request to the executive committee is pretty simple really: “clarity, productivity, and confidence in our leadership”.

Will Labour 3.0 crash and burn?

Groups sprang up across the country after Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement last July. Since then energy and engagement on the ground are fading fast, as people fear that those in charge care far less about solidarity than the activists working tirelessly to unite communities on the ground.

Going further, it seems like Jeremy Corbyn and his allies are leaning toward comfortable positions to seemingly appear relevant to the wider electorate. Their comments on the trans community make this clear, and many have widely condemned them as transphobic. However, this undermines everyone who believed we were building the country’s first socialist party — one that serves all people and leads by example rather than continually giving way to right wing, privileged views.

Frustrated by leadership’s refusal to listen, members are redirecting their energy and resources into empowering their communities and peers. Nevertheless, this growing grassroots effort exposes a real and palpable fear: the party appears to sideline socialists, reducing them to little more than subscription payers, and lets unelected officials like Karie Murphy make all the rules.

That hardly reflects the collective leadership model approved at the November conference. So, we have to ask: now that Corbyn’s team holds full control, are they selling us out? If this party becomes no different from its predecessors, it will lose all relevance and will crash and burn.

If that’s the case, more and more socialist groups across the country must stand ready to step in and fill the void, and rebuild this movement from the bottom-up.

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