Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Dania' and Anna's struggle to uncover British complicity in crime In November 2016, “only weeks after the Great Hall attack, Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary at the time, had urged Javid to continue selling arms, a Freedom of Information request would  later show . “During the Arab Spring of 2011, the government allowed the  export of sniper rifles to North African and Middle Eastern states  under the label of ‘crowd control goods’. “In January 2024, newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Cameron was pressed before the Foreign Affairs Committee about whether he had been advised that Israel had breached international humanitarian law. “Cameron, who noted repeatedly that he wasn’t a lawyer, eventually   said : 'The short answer to that is no'.” “On 26 March 2024, by when at least 32,414 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza and Israel had been accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, then-shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, asked...

"It is not just that this statue [of Robert Clive ] stands as a daily challenge to every British person whose grandparents came from the former colonies. Perhaps more damagingly still, its presence outside the Foreign Office encourages dangerous neo-imperial fantasies among the descendants of the colonisers. In Britain, study of the empire is still largely absent from the history curriculum. This still tends to go from the Tudors to the Nazis, Henry to Hitler, with a brief visit to William Wilberforce and Florence Nightingale along the way. We are thus given the impression that the British were always on the side of the angels. We remain almost entirely ignorant about the long history of atrocities and exploitation that accompanied the building of our colonial system. Now, more than ever, we badly need to understand what is common knowledge elsewhere: that for much of history we were an aggressively  racist and  expansionist force  responsible for ...

Britain "I work in the civil service – and it will resist a Corbyn government" Note: " Where will you be when Labour wins the next general election?" It should be "if", not "when".