Ken Loach with my friend, the journalist Max Blumenthal (left) on a panel of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in 2014. (The Left/Flickr) Keir Starmer’s Labour is intensifying its purge of pro-Palestinian socialists from the party. On Saturday, veteran left-wing film maker Ken Loach announced that he had been kicked out: Share Palestine is Still […]
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The Witch Hunt Has Come For Ken Loach
Above photo: Wikimedia commons. They’ll have to come through us first. First, the media and political opportunists tried to convince us life-long anti-racist Jeremy Corbyn was Hitler-in-waiting. Now, life-long anti-racist Ken Loach is being attacked by the same witch hunt. But after several years of the fraudulent weaponisation of antisemitism to achieve political objectives, the […]
Radiohead may never live down Tel Aviv show, says Ken Loach
Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 7 July 2017 Palestinians are urging Radiohead to cancel their upcoming Tel Aviv gig. (PACBI) Radiohead may not be forgiven if the band plays Tel Aviv, the filmmaker Ken Loach has warned. Loach made his comments during a week when activists held protests at the rock band’s performances, urging […]