What they said about the Middle East

“As Gaza goes, we all go. And it’s really critical that we stand up, because Gazans are the canary in the mineshaft here and what happens in Gaza can happen and will happen anywhere." Green Party candidate for the US presidency Dr Jill Stein in April 2024

“You rush to impose new sanctions on Iran, yet Israel faces no sanctions after bombing Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, an Iranian consulate, and hospitals in Gaza.” Marc Botenga, far left Belgian MEP

“If you read Israeli papers, every day they talk about: ‘Should we attack Gaza?’ ‘Should we attack Lebanon?’ ‘Should we attack Syria?’ Name me another country in the world that falls into that category. It’s a lunatic state.” Norman Finkelstein

"To call a decent person anti-Semitic because he dares to criticise Israel is shameful, because it will make antisemitism respectable and shame upon those people who make these false accusations against us as journalists..." Robert Fisk

‘Less than three years after the Jews of Europe – including members of my own family – were ghettoized and ethnically cleansed for being Jewish, the people of Palestine were ethnically cleansed and ghettoized for NOT being Jewish. Tragically, European settlers in Palestine who survived the Holocaust were among the Zionists who helped carry out the crime against humanity known as the Nakba (“Catastrophe” in Arabic). Though a tiny percentage of Holocaust survivors, those Nakba participants played a role in one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century: the depopulation of Palestine.’ Robert Rosenthal

"YouTube has quietly deleted over 700 videos documenting Israeli war crimes, war, and human rights abuses." American Journalist Ana Kasparian