Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza

Journalist Peter Oborne has done us all a great service by bringing together the evidence of Britain’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip (and, arguably, across the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jerusalem). He pulls no punches in this book under review, and backs up his damning narrative with a staggering 75 pages of endnotes and references. As fellow journalist Owen Jones says on the cover, this is an ‘utterly compelling contribution’ to what we must all hope will be ‘the coming reckoning’ for British politicians, media and others who have allowed lobbyists to effectively control politics and media in the UK on behalf of an alien state.

Oborne points out that “There are nevertheless serious grounds for taking care when discussing the pro-Israeli lobby,” not least because, “As Hil Aked noted in a rare and scrupulous study of the subject, it is important to acknowledge that there are “very real racist fantasies about ‘Jewish power’.” (p.130) Surely, though, there can no longer be any doubt about Zionist power in Britain.