+ Jeremy Corbyn is calling once again for a public inquiry into Great Britain’s role in the genocide in Gaza:

Delaying scrutiny will not make questions about Britain’s role in Gaza disappear. That’s why I introduced a bill in Parliament calling for a public inquiry into Britain’s policy in Gaza, in the same way that there was a Franks Report into previous conflicts, in the same way that Sir John Chilcot was appointed to undertake an inquiry into British policies in Iraq. I think we need to know what was going on in the Foreign Office, in the Ministry of Defense, and what was happening at RAF Akrotiri and other places.

And so when it became clear to me that this bill wasn’t going to make it any further in the House, we put together a tribunal. I was part of it, along with Professor Neve Gordon and Dr. Shahad Hammouri. And we held a Gaza Inquiry over two days in Church House at Westminster with 29 expert witnesses. It was a deeply moving occasion, listening to young people from Gaza explaining what their life had been like, listening to medical practitioners talking about the horror of everything they’d been taught they couldn’t do. They inflicted pain on people in order to try to prevent future pain. Amputating the limbs of children without anesthetic, antiseptic or even water to undertake the operation properly. And all of the heroic work that they did and then thinking that only a few kilometers away from where they were trying to operate, in these ghastly conditions under a piece of canvas, there was food, there was water, there was electricity, there were medicines, antiseptics, everything that’s needed that was deliberately denied the Palestinian people by the IDF. And aid workers were killed. The aid that’s getting in is deliberately designed to prevent there ever being a sustainable way of life in Gaza. You can import some foodstuffs, but you can’t import potatoes and seeds in order to develop agriculture for the future.

Our Gaza inquiry pointed out the levels of depravity of what’s been going on and I thank all of those people who took part in it. But I want there to be a proper public inquiry so we know what those surveillance flights were doing. And when the former Prime Minister Keir Starmer pointed out that there are things going on at RAF Akrotiri that he’s not able to talk about, I think it’s time somebody did talk about it and did talk about what’s actually going on there. We need to know the truth. The truth will set us free. The truth will help to bring about, I believe, what’s essential, which is peace and justice in Palestine.  

+ At the UN, Trump ranted against the International Criminal Court, calling it a “rogue institution,” and demanding that its members resign.

+ Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will impose trade restrictions on goods produced in Israeli settlements and provide around $71 million in assistance for the Palestinian government. Carney called restrictions on settlement products a “pragmatic, practical” measure to help foster“the possibility of a two-state solution, and ultimately a durable peace for Israelis and Palestinians.”

+ Since the Trump “ceasefire” of October 11, 2025, Israel has killed at least 1,402 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 4,881.

+ Trump’s “Board of Peace” puts Gaza’s physical damage at $35.2 billion and estimates that full reconstruction costs will be around $71.4 billion over the next decade.

+ After being relentlessly battered by Israel, lied about and having its funding terminated by the US, UNRWA is confronting a $100 million deficit, forcing the vital lifeline to Palestinians to cut service hours by 20% and slash already meager salaries for its local staff in the Occupied Territories.

+ Number of Israeli checkpoints in the Occupied West Bank, an area smaller than the state of Delaware: 942. 

+ More than 160 Irish sports players signed an open letter urging Ireland’s men’s national soccer squad to boycott upcoming matches against Israel on September 27 and October 4. The letter urged players to “act collectively with conscience.” 

+ Alona Ferber on the hysterical reaction of the Israeli government to the new documentary NAZA:

Earlier this month Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival – and received a 25-minute standing ovation – for their documentary NAZA. Israelis branded the directors as traitors, not Jews, “Kapos”. There were calls for violence against them, for them to be ostracised, sent to Gaza or exiled elsewhere. The frenzy surrounding the film is fundamentally undemocratic. That is what happens after years of extreme right-wing populism, amplified by social media and new technology – in the context of decades of conflict, occupation, apartheid and impunity.

+ “A spectacle of shame”: how Emmanuel Macron at the UN described Trump’s Gaza policy. But was it really all that much less shameful than France’s over the last three years?

+ As Netanyahu gave a belligerent speech before the UN General Assembly, Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, the Netherlands’ UN representative, slammed Israel’s pitiless restrictions on aid and urged European governments to take further action. “It’s completely unacceptable. We should call it as it is; it’s a disgrace. While I appreciate the moment of silence, we cannot be silent. We need to speak up and we need to adhere to the call to action.”

+ 3,582: number of illegal Israeli settlement housing units built in the occupied West Bank from the beginning of 2026.

+ Days before the Palestinian olive harvest, the Israeli military bulldozed, uprooted and torched thousands of fruit-bearing trees in the Occupied West Bank. Olive orchards account for more than 8% of the West Bank’s GDP and provide more than 60,000 jobs.

+ From Maya Nateel’s shattering essay on Gaza, “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”:

I do not want to be missing, left under the rubble for an eternity or gathered in a black plastic bag – a collection of limbs.

+ The Welsh singer Charlotte Church laid into Ed Sheeran during a concert in Cardiff, where the singer repeatedly chanted “Free Palestine”:

Whilst he [Sheeran] has made millions and has an enormous following – he has an enormous platform to do real good in the world – he chose consumerism and capitalism over doing the right thing. So we say the same thing to Ed Sheeran because fuck the fact that musicians shouldn’t be involved in politics. Fuck that shit. Politics is life. Ed Sheeran, we’re watching you.

+ Ed Sheeran’s whimpering apologia to his fans after he was jilted by his band and tourmates was so hollow and robotic it made things worse.  That’s because Ed Sheeran’s mere presence makes everything worse, from the sound of the human voice straining to sing to his fumbled strumming of the DMaj chord on a guitar…

+ Lorna Finlayson the Sheeran-Macklemore debacle:

‘In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as people ask whether Sheeran has been unfairly cancelled for failing to take a sufficiently strong stand against Israel. You could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had been dropped from his tour for not being pro-Palestinian enough. But of course he wasn’t. It is Macklemore, not Sheeran, who has been barred from performing. Yet somehow the story is about Sheeran’s freedom to be apolitical.

 + While most Democrats running for office are wisely keeping Kamala Harris at a distance, Abdul El-Sayed has welcomed her to Michigan, where she stumbled so fatally over her refusal to denounce Israel’s genocide against Palestinians during her 2024 campaign. Pourquoi?

+ Stung by criticism from the Left of his alliance with Harris, El Sayed said his positions on Gaza had not changed: “I was very clear that I disagreed with my party when it came to the genocide. None of those positions have changed at all. I’m not going to change them.”

+ More than a year ago, two Australian charities donated more than 900 all-terrain wheelchairs specifically for use by amputee children to move around in the rubble of Gaza. Israel has vilely blocked their entry into the Strip, claiming they are “dual-use” instruments. And so they remain in a warehouse in Jordan. According to the UN, Gaza has the largest population of child amputees in modern history.

+ The first trailer for NAZA is out and it’s chilling…